Tag: distribution

Sony Pictures Networks India's deeper integration of SonyLIV with its linear TV business gives the company a unified way to develop programming, sell advertising, negotiate distribution and monetize rights across streaming and 28 channels. The structure should help Sony extract…

Charter's $34.5 billion Cox deal is becoming an operating contract in California, where regulators are tying approval to broadband pricing, network investment, outage credits and other customer protections that could constrain margins for years. Cox gives Charter more broadband scale…

Skip warns that the most dangerous partner is the one your business can’t afford to lose. Once a platform controls the customer, data, pricing, or path to growth, the partnership has become the business.

Comcast plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone public company, giving shareholders ownership in both businesses and effectively ending its 15-year bet that content and distribution belong under one roof. The move gives NBCUniversal a cleaner media…

Hollywood’s fight with Big Tech is shifting from a battle for screen time to a battle over control, as tech giants increasingly influence distribution, data, advertising, production tools, and the economics behind entertainment. The Everything Era is forcing studios to…

AI is giving media companies near-infinite execution capacity across localization, marketing, personalization, and content packaging, but it's also creating significantly more coordination complexity and infrastructure costs. As content generation scales, competitive advantage may shift toward companies that can efficiently manage…

Artificial intelligence is removing many of the operational constraints that historically limited how fast media companies could scale, package, localize, and distribute content. But as execution becomes easier and more abundant, the piece explores why the next major competitive advantage…

Last week underscored that distribution, discovery, and monetization systems have become the most valuable assets in streaming, not the content itself. Roku, DAZN, ESPN, Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube all made moves to control the viewer entry point, compress decision-making, and…

Skip breaks down how CTV operating systems now control discovery, monetization, and viewer decision-making, pushing streaming services into a fulfillment role within OS ecosystems. As home screens become the primary interface, services are optimizing for placement and visibility instead of…

Disney is paying $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit over live TV bundling practices, but the agreement leaves its distribution strategy unchanged. The case reinforces ESPN’s leverage as a must-have asset that continues to anchor bundle pricing across…