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Fubo’s subscriber base reached 5.75 million in North America as the NBA Finals and FIFA World Cup drove sign-ups, but pro forma revenue stayed flat and adjusted EBITDA fell to $19.1 million. Disney’s opportunity is to turn Fubo into a…

Streaming economics increasingly depend on who controls the interfaces, infrastructure, billing relationships, and discovery tools connecting audiences with premium content. YouTube, Amazon, HBO Max, Netflix, and DAZN are gaining leverage by owning customer setup, search, packaging, data, and the next…

NBCUniversal is bundling Peacock Premium with YouTube Premium in early 2027 to expand distribution, lower acquisition costs and improve retention. The deal strengthens Google’s control over streaming discovery, billing and viewing, signaling that distribution scale may matter more than owning…

Peacock, Fox One, Paramount+, TikTok, Disney, Netflix, and Paramount show how streaming schedules have become operating systems that drive acquisition, retention, advertising, conversion, data collection, capital allocation, and operational risk. The real value comes from moving viewers from major events…

Peacock’s first quarterly profit shows how live sports, high-frequency entertainment, advertising, and broad distribution can work together to drive streaming economics. The service generated $189 million in adjusted EBITDA, added 2 million paid subscribers, and increased revenue 54% to $1.9…

Fandango anchors Versant’s push to build an owned consumer destination by unifying ticketing, transactional video, discovery and free streaming under one brand. Versant’s expanding the content library by more than 20%, committing 3,500 hours of owned programming and adding Bundesliga…

Kirby makes the case that the full stack has become media’s most expensive flex. Sony is zeroing in on the moments where ownership actually drives revenue, while Comcast and Paramount are learning that scale can bring more scrutiny, more complexity,…

Peacock is turning third-party distribution into a customer acquisition strategy by expanding across YouTube Primetime Channels, Apple, Walmart+, Prime Video, and Roku. NBCU is prioritizing lower friction, broader reach, and cheaper subscriber conversion ahead of major sports cycles like the…

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…

Lionsgate remains one of the few studio assets buyers can still realistically underwrite because it has a focused studio operation, a deep library, production capacity, theatrical distribution, and recognizable franchises without a legacy cable network burden. Netflix’s reported interest and…