Entertainment

Basics of Streaming explains how customer acquisition has become an infrastructure challenge, not just a marketing problem. Trials, discounts, bundles, and partner offers can bring subscribers in, but platforms need billing, lifecycle marketing, personalization, and retention systems to turn promotional…

Sony PlayStation's decision to stop producing physical discs for new games after January 2028 pushes premium gaming deeper into the same digital-first economics that reshaped film, TV, and music. The shift gives Sony tighter control over PlayStation Store commerce, pricing,…

Sony Pictures is investing $100 million in Cosm, taking a minority stake in the immersive venue operator and adding CEO Ravi Ahuja to Cosm’s board. Sony’s move builds on its Alamo Drafthouse acquisition and gives the studio another direct path…

Basics of Streaming explains how rights windows determine where content appears, disappears, and reappears across streaming platforms. Studios and rights holders use windows to monetize the same title across theaters, PVOD, TVOD, SVOD, broadcast, AVOD, FAST, international markets, and specialized…

From the Archives revisits how Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Also Bought” feature helped turn recommendation engines into core internet infrastructure. Amazon’s item-to-item collaborative filtering showed that behavior could outperform metadata, creating a discovery model that now powers streaming, music,…

Instagram’s TV push shows how media competition is shifting from format wars to attention wars. The winners in the Everything Era won’t defend TV, social, streaming, or gaming as separate lanes, they’ll use each format to build discovery, habit, engagement,…

From the Archives revisits TiVo Suggestions, one of TV’s earliest recommendation engines and a preview of how discovery would become core to streaming. TiVo used viewing behavior and feedback to predict what users might like, proving that understanding taste could…

Los Angeles is losing film and TV production as studios and streamers cut spending, chase stronger tax incentives and move shoots to markets with lower costs and fewer operational headaches. The county’s motion picture workforce fell by roughly 42,000 jobs…

Neymar's FlareFlow deal turns his licensed identity into a 16-title AI-assisted microdrama franchise timed to the FIFA Men’s World Cup. COL Group's testing whether celebrity likeness can become scalable content inventory, using Neymar’s reach to bring sports audiences into microdrama…

OnlyFans is becoming a recurring shorthand in scripted TV for the broader creator economy, where individuals build audience relationships and turn attention into recurring revenue. Streaming trained consumers to pay monthly for content, and creator platforms have extended that behavior…