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Roku’s stock was hammered on Monday, after Morgan Stanley put out a note to clients warning its share price is overvalued following a remarkable run this year.

ZypMedia’s Aman Sareen says OTT advertising is poised to overtake ads on linear TV given a perfect storm of proliferating services, audience receptivity to streaming ads and better targetability.

OTT executives from CBS Local, Sinclair,  NBC News Digital and TownNews will share the latest insights on OTT news content, technological challenges and monetization potential for the platform at the seventh annual NewsTECHForum this month.

Disney has been heavily marketing its new service and working hard to make potential subscribers aware that Disney+ is the home of Iron Man and Luke Skywalker. The fact that Disney+ is also the exclusive home of 30 seasons of The Simpsons has flown a bit under the radar. The show and its irreverent humor aren’t an obvious fit for the family-friendly service. But The Simpsons may be just as important to Disney+ as Buzz Lightyear or Queen Elsa.

Diane Nelson, the former president of DC Entertainment who joined Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi as head of content operations less than a year ago, is leaving the mobile subscription video startup. Nelson is the latest high-profile Quibi exec to leave the company recently — with her departure coming less than six months before the company is scheduled to launch its ambitious SVOD service in April 2020.

Cameras will show her delivering her podcast and SiriusXM radio show, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, five days a week. The program is modeled after her popular television series that ran on the HLN network for many years.

Premium subscription video platform Hulu pulled in $670 million in advertising — and $1.27 billion in subscription fees — according to a recent analysis of Walt Disney’s yearly 10K filing for 2019.

Disney+ bets on a seven-day rollout, Netflix sticks to all-at-once drops and Apple TV+ experiments with both as the strategies spark a data debate and “a gut-level conversation … about what shows are better suited to which rollout.”

Two weeks after its glitch-filled launch, Disney+ is averaging nearly a million new subscribers a day, new data shows. The $6.99-per-month streaming service’s mobile app has been downloaded 15.5 million times, according to numbers from research firm Apptopia.

Veteran broadcaster Tom Rogers (above) and Frankly CEO Lou Schwartz are behind a new streaming platform looking to amalgamate elements of news, live sports, esports and gaming elements, including betting, in a play to draw young cord-cutters.

Liberty Media chairman John Malone believes that consolidation, which has swept through the traditional cable distribution business largely at his own hand, will come to streaming video as well, and that could be good news for traditional pay TV companies.

Roku, Amazon Fire, Google Chromecast and other digital TV devices are becoming the new middlemen between apps and consumers — what happens when there is conflict?

Streaming services are starting to consider whether, and how, to apply content standards as more viewers shift from traditional TV.

Any news junkie in need of a live-Information fix can toggle on to any number of streaming news outlets. Now, TV stations affiliated with CBS can do the same. CBS News told affiliates in a memo Tuesday that it would allow them to use live coverage from its CBSN streaming-video hub to keep news events on the air even when the network’s traditional reports had come to an end.

Wall Street’s reaction so far to Walt Disney Co.’s long-awaited streaming service suggests investors believe the competition may not be as crushing as expected for entertainment rival Netflix

In an interview at Recode’s Code Media conference on Monday, CEO John Stankey said the vision for HBO Max is to create a bundle of content that includes movies and shows not owned by WarnerMedia in addition to those it creates and licenses on its own.

It marks the newest expansion of major market local news streaming services from CBS and features local news content produced by KPIX.

Hackers didn’t waste any time and have started hijacking Disney+ user accounts hours after the service launched. Many of these accounts are now being offered for free on hacking forums, or available for sale for prices varying from $3 to $11, a ZDNet investigation has discovered.

Once a generation, Hollywood experiences a seismic shift. It is happening again. The long-promised streaming revolution — the next great leap in how the world gets its entertainment — is finally here.

The new TrackPass streaming service is part of the NBC Sports Gold service and is expected to debut in December.

The Content Wars have reached full pitch, and they’re changing television forever.

Walt Disney, led by Chairman and CEO Bob Iger, has been projecting between 60 million and 90 million global streaming subscribers by 2024.

For some users, Disney Plus was a Disney Minus on its big launch day Tuesday. In its Nov. 12 debut, the service was beset by multiple problems, including Disney Plus customers being unable to log in to the service, access specific content, or use certain streaming devices — while some who called Disney’s customer service line for help were left on hold for an hour or more.

As mega-hit Friends continues to celebrate its 25th anniversary, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the six core stars and the creators of the NBC comedy from Warner Bros. TV are in talks to reunite on HBO Max.