Tubi, Foxs free, advertising-supported streaming platform, has surpassed 97 million monthly active users. Thats a jump from more than 78million MAUs posted in mid-2024. The streaming platform, which launched in 2014, on Monday said it streamed over 10 billion streaming hours in calendar 2024. The latest growth spurt at Tubi comes as it fends off competition in the FAST space...

2025 has only just started, but NBCUniversals chairman of advertising sales Mark Marshall is already thinking about 2026. Its easy to understand why. 2026 is the 100th anniversary of NBC, and next year the network will have the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. It will have the NBA and NBA All-Star Game, it will have the FIFA World Cup...

Sesame Workshop, the non-profit that produces Sesame Street, has named veteran digital media exec Joseph Giraldi as its new chief operating officer. Reporting to newly-installed CEO Sherrie Westin, Giraldi, most recently a co-founder of the consulting firm CJBK Media Group, will have as an early priority finding a new home for fresh episodes of Sesame Street after Warner Bros. Discovery...

Kicking off the new year with a surprising move, Disney unveiled a deal to merge its multichannel streaming service Hulu + Live TV with its competitor Fubo TV, shaking up the streaming TV business. The news comes as many in Hollywood and on Wall Street are predicting a coming deal frenzy, following a 2024 drop in deal volume in the...

In the summer of 2023, Ian Orefice exited as the president of Time Studios to launch his own venture: EverWonder Studios. The production company had the backing of Jeff Zuckers RedBird IMI, but it was an enormous risk: At a moment when it seemed like every network and streaming service was pulling back on content spend, what would the market...

Amazon is once again looking to take on the traditional TV companies in the advertising space, using the Consumer Electronics Show to announce a return to TVs upfront week, and taking over a time that in past years has been the home for Fox. Amazon says that it will hold its upfront on Monday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m. at...

The Walt Disney Co. will merge its streaming multichannel video service Hulu with Live TV with its competitor Fubo in a surprise deal that will shake up the streaming TV business, a spokesperson for Fubo says. The deal will do a couple of big things if and when it is completed: For starters, it will create a much bigger player...

Wasserman is expected to bolster its music unit with the hiring of two of WMEs co-heads of its hip-hop division, who are said to be on the move over to the Westwood-based talent management and production company, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Hip-hop division co-chiefs Kevin Shivers and James Rubin along with WME partner Christina Baxter are in talks to...

So, you survived to 2025. But, now that were here, things are looking pretty much the same. The majority of the legacy studios are in free fall, and there are only so many children of billionaires to go around. The content bubble is still burst, leaving Great Recession-levels of cleanup, but instead of abandoned McMansions in Florida, its hundreds of...

A trio of major music publishers suing Anthropic over the use of lyrics to train its AI system have reached a deal with the Amazon-backed company to resolve some parts of a pending preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee on Thursday signed off on an agreement between the two sides mandating Anthropic to maintain existing guardrails that prevent its...

A little over 10 days after dropping Justin Baldoni, his agency, WME, which also represents his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, has released a statement insisting the married stars didnt pressure WME to drop Baldoni. The clarification comes a day after Baldoni sued the New York Times, which reported on Livelys legal complaint...

On a cool November evening in New York City, a swarm of hundreds of drones gracefully buzzed over the Hudson River, taking shape above a darkened ship floating in the water. What followed was a veritable procession of Walt Disney Co. intellectual property, paired with music from Disney classics. The drones formed one character or scene after another, including the...

After years of investor concerns about advertising market trends, streaming losses, cord-cutting in the streaming age eating away at Hollywood giants cable networks units, their former core profit growth engines, and competition from technology giants, a whiff of entertainment optimism is sweeping across Wall Street as the calendar changes from 2024 to 2025. Dare We Say Were Optimistic? Wells Fargo...