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Churn, Baby, Churn: Streaming Services Gird For A Challenging 2022
Major streaming services could face a hurricane of cancellations and churn rates past 30 percent, a new report suggests. They better figure out some new tactics less dependent on their legacy operations.
Tubular Ties E-Commerce Sales To Social-Video Views In New Metric
A new metric from Tubular Labs connects viewership of product videos online with Amazon purchases by those audiences in the next 30 days. Electronics purchases had a particularly high correlation, but more broadly, the metric will help publishers better pitch the value of their audiences.
Comcast Should Be All-In Or All-Out On Hulu
If Comcast feels strongly enough about the need to pull content from Hulu and move it to Peacock, it might as well be all the way out on service it currently co-owns with Disney.
Is Disney’s Eye-Popping $33 Billion Production Plan Actually Enough?
Disney says it will spend $8 billion more on its streaming programming next year. But with deep-pocketed competitors such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple –none of which have to pay for legacy operations – is that gargantuan increase enough? Warner Bros. Discovery faces some of the same questions as it prepares to merge.
Hallmark Channel Leads ‘Turkey Five’ Retail TV Ad Surge
Retail brands were on the menu for TV viewers throughout the ‘Turkey Five’ in an effort to boost holiday sales.
Owning the Fan Relationship is the Winning Strategy for Rights Holders
StreamLayer COO Andrew Fleming explains how rightsholders are losing crucial customer relationships when utilizing social-focused platforms to engage fans.
Can Disney+ Day Distract From A Crummy Quarter?
Disney shares dropped 8 percent after the company badly missed on expectations for new Disney+ subscribers, but will spend the week celebrating the two-year anniversary of Disney+’s launch with a bunch of deals and debuts. But lots of strategy issues remain, especially with the company legacy broadcast and cable operations.
Even Amid Reopening, Streaming Video Revenues Continue To Grow
U.S. home-entertainment revenues set more records in the last quarter, led by a burgeoning streaming-video sector, according to trade group DEG. The overall jump of 9.5 percent came despite increasing access to alternate entertainment options as the pandemic’s strictures continued to ease.
What English Premier League TV Rights Will Say About State of U.S. Market
The Premier League will the latest sports entity to get a major payday from U.S. media companies. What will it mean for the market overall?
Why State Farm Probably Sticks With Aaron Rodgers On TV
Data shows that State Farm largely moved away from TV ads featuring Aaron Rodgers, but could the move wind up being short-lived?

