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Setting HBO Up For Success: The WBD Split Story
The WBD split seems to mostly be about making HBO look attractive to potential suitors. Alan Wolk explains why.
What’s Possible: KERV + WBD On Making Shoppable Content Actually Work
In our final What's Possible videos, KERV’s Marika Roque and WBD's Derek Gatts discuss how KERV's technology is helping to power WBD's new shoppable platform, and why shoppable content is about to become the next big thing on CTV.
Max Has A First Name Again, Four Big Takeaways From The Upfronts
WBD is putting the “HBO” back in Max. We look at why and what it means in a macrotrend kind of way. Plus the four big trends we saw at the Upfronts this year.
Streaming In MENA Is Heating Up
Yann Colléter breaks down two very big deals—including a billion-dollar bet—as Western media giants double down on MENA streaming.
Max Disses Ad-Supported Viewers, YouTube Pushes Its Channel Store Hard
WBD takes CNN and Bleacher Report away from ad-supported viewers and we wonder WTF. Plus YouTube’s resurgent channel store strategy.
Stop Trying To Make The Incomplete ‘Sports Streamer’ Happen
Just days after Venu’s death, DirecTV proposed an alternative… that’s also incomplete. So again: Why are we still trying this?
Venu Gets Mouse Trapped, Zuck Might Have Stepped In It
Why Disney’s Fubo deal is likely the final nail in Venu’s coffin, How Meta’s Trump-pleasing privacy policies should benefit TV’s new SMB play.
Netflix’s 150 Percent Problem, Fubo’s Gift To Venu
Netflix boasts impressive ad sales growth, but some industry insiders remain skeptical about the audience. Meanwhile, Fubo's legal victory may have given Venu an easy way to bail on the ill-conceived service.
Cookies Are, In Fact, Good Enough For Google, WBD’s NBA Reality Check
Cookies, their history, why TV doesn’t have them, why contextual worka on TV, and WTF was WBD thinking with the NBA?
Skydances With Paramount, The NBA Takes On Amazon
Why Ellison has no choice but to try to make Paramount a tech company and what to make of the NBA’s decision to tap Amazon.
From Foes to Potential Flows: Unpacking the Max, Disney+, Hulu Streaming Bundle
Disney+, Hulu and Max make for some odd bundle-mates, but how much overlap is there between the threesome, and do they have what consumers want?
WBD and Disney Go A’Bundling, FAST Services Are Good Business
All the unanswered questions behind the Disney/WBD bundling announcement and why FAST services are crushing it.
Will NBCU Steal The NBA From WBD, The NewFronts Confirm A Lot Of What You’ve Been Hearing
Spulu would seem to be the Biggest Loser if NBCU stole the NBA from WBD and why that might spur WBD to action. Plus everything that mattered at the NewFronts.
Join TVREV At MIPTV
TVREV will be hosting the much anticipated Global FAST and AVOD Summit at MIPTV this year. As if you needed another reason to head to Cannes.
The Super Bowl Is A Ratings Smash, New Stealth App Leaves NFL Top Brass Steaming
Over 100 million people managed to watch the Super Bowl on CBS and what that means for broadcast TV plus why the NFL is still vein-bulging livid over the new sports streaming app.
Fox, WBD, Disney And The Stealth Sports Bundle, YouTube TV Has Over 8 Million Subs
Disney, Fox and WBD announced a brand new streaming sport bundle, but we wonder whether it can do what they want it to do. Meanwhile the fact that YouTube TV had over 8MM subs appeared in an internal blog post. We interpret.
Amazon Knows A Diamond Deal When They See One, Mark Thompson Reveals CNN 2.0
Why Amazon’s rescue of Diamond Sports mostly benefits Amazon and why Thompson’s vision for CNN is shaking up TV news.
Will WBD Buy Paramount, Will Amazon Bail Out Diamond Sports?
Why WBD’s purchase of Paramount might serve to make them even more churn-proof and why Amazon’s decision to bail out Diamond Sports might reverberate throughout the industry.
vMVPDs Are Booming, The Strikes Are Over, Now What?
We look at why vVMPDs are booming and our predictions on what happens now that the strikes are done.
Hot List: TV Industry Drama; Hope, Pain & Complexity
This week’s TVREV highlights, and more news across the industry.