Professional sports leagues including the National Football League and National Basketball Association were kept in the dark about the new sports-centric streaming service being launched by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery, people familiar with the matter said. The companies involved in the effort are media partners of both leagues. Pro basketball and football programming will be among the significant drivers of the new service.
Disney says the sports giant is targeting a fall 2025 launch for the platform.
Video watched out-of-home (OOH) comprises more than one-third of programmatic OOH spend on video-enabled screens. Place Exchange, an OOH programmatic SSP, expects more investment in video as advertisers increase their use of short-form vertical video content from social campaigns on larger screens.
Wall Street analysts break down the plan by Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox to launch a joint streaming venture that has rights to the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football and NCAA March Madness basketball.
The announcement that ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery were forming a new sports streaming venture sent shares of sports-oriented Fubo spiraling downward. Fubo stock was down 25% to $1.88 a share in Wednesday morning trading.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday. It is Putin’s first interview to a Western media figure since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago.
In honor of Black History Month, the Allen Media Group platform theGrio is launching its inaugural Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship — an annual initiative aimed at providing a platform for Black filmmakers to share their compelling […]
Music video network Vevo has launched free linear-programmed channels on Sling Freestream, the FAST service on Sling TV. Vevo will add six channels on Sling Freestream: Vevo Pop, Vevo Country, […]
The broadcaster’s Diamond Sports Group got tripped up by cord cutting, COVID and battles with MLB over streaming, leaving an opening for the tech giant.
The lawsuit Carano filed with help from X, formerly Twitter, in federal court in California alleges her wrongful termination from the Star Wars galaxy Disney+ streaming series after two seasons over a post likening the treatment of American conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
The three companies will each share one-third ownership in the joint venture. A name for the service and pricing will be announced later. The platform will include games from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, NASCAR and college sports, including the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament, as well as golf, tennis and the FIFA World Cup.
CEO Neal Mohan also says more than 3 million channels now receive ad-revenue share, touts 1 billion hours viewed on TV daily.
The travel brand will start up a worldwide campaign on Netflix’s ad-supported plan for the entire 2024 year — a multi-country advertising effort to reach more than 23 million global monthly active users.
In a year when a fractured, Netflix-led landscape trotted out hundreds of new original series, audiences turned to library series like Suits, Grey’s Anatomy and Gilmore Girls, which claimed all of the top 10 spots in Nielsen’s 2023 tally.
Viant Technology said that it has added new artificial intelligence-based tools and services to its data platform. The tools are designed to help advertisers get more out of their relationships with publishers while maintaining consumer privacy.
The offerings include Entertainment, News, Sports and True Crime channels that will feature past seasons of reality programming including The Real Housewives franchises, true crime and sports content, and acclaimed library series including Murder, She Wrote, The Lone Ranger and Little House on the Prairie. NBC and Telemundo Local FAST channels are set to arrive later this year.
Sales of Digital World Acquisition stock triggered a widespread federal probe that involved a confidential informant, a secret airport phone scan and an elite anti-money-laundering squad. Three people were indicted, but the investigation continues.
The Meta Oversight Board urged the social media company on Monday to reconsider its current policy on manipulated media ahead of the various elections set to be held in 2024. The board, which is run independently of Meta and funded through a grant by the company, described the policy as “incoherent, lacking in persuasive justification and inappropriately focused on how content has been created, rather than on which specific harms it aims to prevent.”
The tech giant is paying an undisclosed but significant sum to the media company as it launches “Signals.” The feature intends to “offer readers diverse, sophisticated perspectives and insights on the biggest stories in the world as they develop,” Semafor wrote on Monday.
The media sales and marketing veteran will spearhead Scripps’ go-to-market strategy and drive long-term revenue growth across all Scripps’ national assets, with a strong focus on advanced TV, connected TV, sports and news.
Cineverse Corp., a innovative streaming technology and entertainment company, today debuted the Sid & Marty Krofft Channel. The Kroffts’ iconic shows can now be found as branded video-on-demand (VOD) channels […]
The cuts at Snapchat’s parent company come after layoffs across Google, Microsoft and Amazon.