Entertainment

Allen Family Capital has acquired a 10.7% stake in Starz Entertainment through a $25 million private transaction with Liberty 77 Capital, transferring shares previously held by Steven Mnuchin’s investment firm. The purchase introduces Byron Allen as a new shareholder in…

Netflix has acquired InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck, bringing its 16-person team and production-focused technology in-house while installing Affleck as a senior advisor. The move signals Netflix’s shift toward owning production infrastructure, giving the company proprietary…

From the Archives revisits how Amazon introduced Amazon Channels in 2015 to address the growing fragmentation of streaming by allowing Prime Video users to subscribe to third-party services directly within Amazon’s interface. The model positioned Amazon as a subscription aggregator,…

Banijay and All3Media have agreed to merge their production businesses into a new entity operating under the Banijay name, with each side holding a 50% stake. The combined company will control more than 260,000 hours of content across scripted, unscripted,…

Netflix has signed a multi-year agreement with Ateme to deploy TITAN Live across its global live streaming workflows, embedding high-density, real-time encoding deeper into its infrastructure. The deal signals Netflix is operationalizing live programming at scale, prioritizing perceptual quality optimization…

Basics of Streaming explains how TV operating systems like Roku OS, Fire TV, LG webOS, Samsung Tizen, Vizio SmartCast, and Android TV shape discovery, advertising, subscription billing, and data collection, making them powerful gatekeepers in streaming. The piece argues that…

From the Archives revisits Hulu’s 2008 launch as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and News Corp, which brought full-length, ad-supported broadcast TV online in a controlled, monetised environment. Hulu’s 2010 introduction of a subscription tier that retained advertising created the…

Disney’s January surge to 11.9% of total TV share was driven almost entirely by ESPN’s College Football Playoff coverage, highlighting how live sports can materially shift parent-level market position. But YouTube’s 12.5% lead underscores that structural, daily engagement now rivals…

The U.K. government will bring major video on demand platforms with more than 500,000 users under enhanced oversight from Ofcom through new legislation tied to the Media Act 2024. Tier 1 services including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ must comply…

OpenAI partnered with Reliance to integrate AI powered conversational search into JioHotstar, enabling multilingual text and voice discovery across live and on demand content. The deal also brings JioHotstar recommendations directly into ChatGPT, creating a two way discovery layer. The…