Tag: streaming rights

Disney’s licensing a broad slate of films and series to Netflix, with short windows around franchises like *Percy Jackson* and *Ice Age* timed ahead of new Disney-controlled releases. The model gives Disney licensing revenue while testing whether Netflix exposure can…

Netflix’s September exits put a fresh batch of licensed titles back into play across SVOD, AVOD, FAST, and owned services. What those rights are worth next depends heavily on prior exposure, window length, exclusivity, and territory.

Skip argues that sports exclusivity deserves a premium only when the buyer covers the value lost from reduced reach, sponsorship exposure, and fan acquisition. Emerging properties may benefit more from broad distribution, while established events can better monetize scarcity.

Meta’s roughly $10 billion legal expense shows how recommendation systems are becoming direct P&L issues, while YouTube, the BBC, Flipboard, and Roku are fighting over who controls discovery. As algorithms increasingly shape audience, ad revenue, rights value, and distribution, recommendation…

Roku is turning its NWSL discovery relationship into an owned sports business, taking exclusive rights to eight Sunday Night matches in 2026 and 25 in 2027. The deal gives Roku live inventory it can promote, monetize and measure across its…

Rights owners are increasingly preserving IP, distribution, customer relationships and future monetization while selling buyers only the access or control they actually need. Netflix, Disney, Sony and the NFL show how narrower rights deals can create value without transferring the…

Sony Pictures Television’s renewed Seinfeld deals with Netflix, Paramount and major broadcast groups let it monetize the same 180-episode library across streaming, cable and syndication at the same time. Each buyer’s paying for a different form of value, from Netflix’s…

Disney+ has secured a multi-year deal to stream Formula E across 144 markets beginning with the 2026-27 season, giving the service recurring live sports programming across an eight-month global calendar while ESPN and ESPN+ handle U.S. distribution. Formula E’s hybrid…

Basics of Streaming explains how metadata gives video assets the identity, rights, technical instructions, and commercial context needed for distribution, discovery, advertising, and revenue tracking. Strong metadata infrastructure helps streaming companies launch content faster, automate workflows, improve recommendations, protect against…

Netflix’s licensed series have generated more than half of its global series-driven sign-ups since Q1 2025, showing that licensed programming is outperforming originals as an acquisition engine. Kirby examines how media companies should reserve exclusivity for titles that materially drive…