Business

Streaming services are shifting focus from high-volume output toward IP with the potential to scale across formats, markets, and revenue lines. As production costs rise and budgets tighten, platforms are increasingly concentrating investment on ideas that can support long-term value.…

Gracenote’s Tyler Bell explores how fragmentation is overwhelming viewers and degrading the overall streaming experience. Despite a flood of content and high engagement, discovery issues are fueling churn, cutting into ad revenue, and undercutting monetization across the board.

DIRECTV has launched its native app on LG Smart TVs (2021+ models), enabling users to stream live channels, on-demand content, and over 100 FAST channels without extra hardware. The integration simplifies access to DIRECTV's Signature plans, Genre Packs, and MyFree…

Paramount made a $108.4 billion hostile all-cash offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, disrupting Netflix’s prior $82.7 billion agreement and resetting the competitive stakes in Hollywood's final mega-merger. With WBD shareholders now weighing immediate cash versus Netflix’s strategic value, the deal…

Harmonic is selling its video business to MediaKind for $145 million to double down on broadband infrastructure, particularly its vCMTS platform supporting DOCSIS 4.0 rollouts at Comcast and Charter. This move frees Harmonic to align fully with operator demand and…

The proposed Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. reveals how wrestling rights are shaped less by content and more by system alignment. WWE, AEW, and TNA now represent three distinct strategic models: WWE supports scale across platforms, TNA fits a habit-driven…

Netflix has acquired Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion, combining the most scaled streaming service with one of Hollywood’s deepest IP libraries. The deal gives Netflix control over franchises like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and DC, positioning it as the…

From the Archives revisits how Hitbox and Azubu, two early challengers to Twitch’s dominance, merged to form Smashcast, a bold but ultimately short-lived attempt to create an esports-first streaming platform. Hitbox brought technical innovation and creator-first values, while Azubu added…

Titan OS raised €50M in Series A funding to expand its independent TV operating system across Europe and LATAM. The company aims to improve content discovery, scale ad monetization tools, and grow beyond its current 18 million MAUs through new…

Ask Skip breaks down the fallout from Omnicom's expected 4,000 layoffs post-IPG merger, framing it as a structural collapse of the full-service agency model. Skip outlines four brutally honest paths forward—going brand-side, building an indie hustle, pivoting into content/streaming, or…