Dade Hayes

As streaming prices keep climbing, more subscribers are willing to opt into advertising to keep a lid on costs. Today, 54% of SVOD subscribers have at least one ad-supported tier of a paid service, up […]

Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has given $50 million to his alma mater, Bowdoin College in Maine, in support of a new initiative centered on AI. The gift, which is the largest in […]

Amazon‘s Prime Video has launched a pilot program using AI tools to dub select movies and series into English and Latin American Spanish. The initiative, which launched Wednesday, is intended to make the streaming service’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: TelevisaUnivision and DirecTV have reached a multi-year carriage renewal, expanding their distribution agreement to encompass new pay-TV packages. The deal provides the roughly 11 million customers of DirecTV with networks from the Hispanic media […]

Sunday night’s Oscar telecast started and ended with indelible moments: a stirring Wicked duet and a climactic pair of wins by Anora. Unfortunately for many Hulu subscribers, both ends of the 3-hour, 45-minute telecast were […]

TKO Group Holdings delivered fourth-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations despite a revenue dip at WWE related to flagship program Raw. The Monday night mainstay wrapped its decades-long run on cable TV last December […]

The streaming bundle established last year by Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery could be “a game-changer” in the competition with Netflix and “a wake-up call for the industry,” a top research firm says. Jonathan Carson, […]

Fox Corp. CFO Steve Tomsic sought to clarify the company’s surprising announcement earlier this month that it plans to launch a general-interest subscription streaming service later this year. “Our thesis hasn’t changed,” Tomsic insisted Tuesday […]

Paramount Global and YouTube TV have reached a carriage renewal, averting the blackout of 23 networks including CBS, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. The companies announced the multi-year deal Saturday night. The agreement includes the inclusion […]

Last December’s two-season renewal of Apple TV+ series Silo was a boon to AMC Networks, whose studio arm produces the show. But even though there’s no major follow-up project in the pipeline, top execs plan […]

Roku delivered a strong set of fourth-quarter results, including crossing the $1 billion threshold in platform revenue. The streaming giant ended the quarter on December 31 with 89.8 million streaming households, surpassing 90 million in […]

Paramount Global is warning of a looming carriage impasse with YouTube TV, meaning channels like CBS, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and others could go dark Thursday for millions of subscribers. “We have made a series of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pay-TV bundle Philo is hitting some notable operational milestones in its eighth year as a full-fledged pay-TV service. The company has hit 1.3 million subscribers, posting a 20% year-over-year growth rate in 2024. Disclosing […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cricket Media, the 50-year-old children’s media company known for its namesake print magazine, has acquired majority control of kids streaming outlet Sensical. The streaming service launched in 2021 under Common Sense Networks, the for-profit […]

EXCLUSIVE: If you recognize the name pocket.watch, you likely associate it with YouTube, its anchor distribution partner since the kids programming outfit was founded in 2018. Now, the company is expanding its slate of creator-based […]

Continuing the wave of recent streaming bundles, BET+ and Starz are joining a combo launching today via Amazon’s Prime Video. The U.S. offering will cost $15.99 a month, about 30% less than the cost of […]

EXCLUSIVE: While Super Bowl LIX is setting new records for national ad rates, John Stamos and streaming tech firm Zeam are taking a more targeted approach to the big game. The star is appearing in […]

Comcast closed 2024 with a strong quarter, handily beating Wall Street estimates. Revenue of $31.9 billion topped the Street’s expectations for $31.6 billion, rising 2% over the year-ago period, while adjusted earnings per share of […]

Amazon Ads is rolling out Brand+, a new offering for advertisers that combines what it estimates are “trillions of signals” from shopping, browsing and streaming across its footprint. The aim of the data-powered offering is […]

Fallout and Nobody Wants This ended 2024 as the top new original drama and comedy in streaming, respectively, Nielsen said Monday in a recap of the year. Nielsen said preschool mainstay Bluey, Netflix drama Bridgerton […]

Streaming gets attention for buzzy originals, but viewing of classics accounts for a large chunk of the total audience. Nielsen acknowledged as much by including shoutouts to two legacy titles, Little House on the Prairie […]

The Big Bang Theory finished 2024 as the year’s “most-binged title” in streaming, according to a new report from Nielsen. The sitcom averaged 265.5 episodes per viewer on Max, the measurement firm said, or 29.1 […]

For the first time, three streaming services (Netflix, Max and Paramount+) have earned duPont-Columbia Awards, broadcasting’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, in a single year. Columbia Journalism School announced the 16 winners of the 2025 […]

Max and Starz are joining forces in a new streaming bundle launching on Prime Video in the U.S. The offering will cost $20.99 a month, about 25% less than the price of signing up to […]

Netflix added nearly 19 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, reaching 301.6 million globally, thanks to a wave of high-impact programming in the final weeks of 2024. The tally, a company record for the biggest […]

Streaming as a viewing category leveled up again in December, according to Nielsen‘s monthly Gauge report, rising 9% over the previous month after a comparable gain in November. Collectively, streaming outlets accounted for 43.3% of […]

As is the case with most Netflix earnings reports, the question for the company on Tuesday isn’t whether the number of subscribers will rise – it’s about just how high the number can go. Most […]