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2. If You Work in Film and TV, Get Ready for Layoffs Read more on Bloomberg ($)
3. Premium Streaming Channels: An Industry Status Check Read more on Variety VIP+ ($)
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Week's Notable Quote
“You can’t just take this thing that you’re going to put somewhere else and put it on TikTok. You’ve got to sprinkle a little chaos on it.”
– Jonathan Helfgot, Netflix’s VP of film marketing, on using the social media platform for film marketing.
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The team at Dolby this week hosted an information-packed open house for studio partners at its Burbank facility to share updates on Dolby Atmos for automotive and language dubbing, and Dolby Vision content creation and library conversion options. (l. to r.) Tom McAndrew, Tina Eckman, Ron Geller and Rich Marty hosted the experience. |
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What a Paramount+/Showtime Merger Could Mean for Niche Streamers
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The need to combine the two services speaks to the changing forces within subscription video. Economic pressures due in part to inflation have reduced discretionary spending power of many households. This has seen a change in opinion regarding smaller and niche streaming services. Read more
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Roku’s Big TV Hire: Can Charlie Collier Work ‘Mad Men’ Magic on Streaming Company’s Content Strategy?
Variety
For Roku, recruiting the high-profile TV exec who brought such hits as “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead” to the small screen can be viewed as a shift toward more strategic — rather than tactical — spending on original content. Not incidentally, Collier also is familiar with the content economics of the free-streaming space: Fox Corp. spent $440 million to buy Tubi in 2020, which has served as a monetization outlet for Fox TV programming. Read more
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Bally Sports Plus Readies Monday National Rollout Amid Fire Sale Rumors
Next TV
One of the more exciting streaming products to hit the video business, Bally Sports Plus, officially launches Monday across the national footprint of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s 19 Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks. But as the Sinclair subsidiary that runs the RSNs, Diamond Sports Group, looks to expand beyond the five-market test run of its DTC subscription service first hoisted back in June, it's reportedly having fire-sale discussions to save its own hide. Read more
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Congratulations to the Nominees for Our Best Multi-Company Team Collaboration Award
Cloud Localization Blueprint, Fabric
Industry First Integrated Licensing Strategy Tool, Rightsline + Salesforce
Kevin Lebre and Florian Castaignede, Testronic + Witbe
Jeff Glahn and Kevin Lenhart, TiVo/Part of Xperi + Vecima + Evolution + Verimatrix
Adriana Becerra and Arthur Kim, Tubi
Richard Legrand and John McVay, Verizon + HP
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Come support your friends and colleagues on October 12 at the DTS Sound Space in Los Angeles!
Presented by Xperi
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When Broadcast Shows Move to Streaming, Do Viewers Follow?
Over the last two weeks, three small-screen staples — Dancing With the Stars, Days of our Lives, and Thursday Night Football — made the journey from their longtime homes on network TV to fancy new digs in the digital universe. These series were all purposely plucked from broadcast in order to boost the fortunes of their respective streaming overlords. It’s a pretty big deal — but unfortunately, figuring out how well some of these moves are going isn’t going to be easy. Vulture ($)
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Netflix's Ad Tier Is Coming Soon—and Media Buyers Have Many Questions
With Netflix’s much-anticipated ad tier expected to launch Nov. 1, media buyers are racing to lock in their commitments with the streaming service by the end of the month. Now, new details are emerging about the scope of the streamer’s advertising offerings, more than a half dozen media buyers have told Adweek. “There is a very big opportunity for Netflix to advance the industry in a way that’s great,” said Field Garthwaite, co-founder of content-targeting ad-tech firm Iris.TV. AdWeek
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Imax Buys Streaming Video Tech Firm for $21M
Imax is looking to benefit from streaming era competition by acquiring SSIMWAVE, a Canadian tech start-up focused on optimizing video quality and viewer experience on multiple platforms. Imax CEO Richard Gelfond said the acquisition will allow his company to deliver the highest quality video images on any screen and device with different bandwidths beyond a traditional giant screen theatrical market. The Hollywood Reporter
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Disney Sets April Carretta As Head of Communications For Direct To Consumer Unit
Disney has named April Carretta as Head of Communications, Direct to Consumer, leading global communications for the company’s portfolio of direct-to-consumer video streaming businesses. She reports to Heather Hust Rivera, SVP Communications for Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution. Deadline
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How to Win the Streaming Wars
Even with Disney announcing in August that it had overtaken the king of the streamers, Netflix, with its undefeated number of global subscribers, it’s nearly impossible to know WHO is winning the streaming wars. This is due to the services sharing their wins differently for favourable reporting of subscription data. These companies are not opening the vaults to their top secret internal data just yet. What we can do at least is say who’s increasing their chances tenfold. Read more
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Bill Neighbors, Chief Content Officer at Xperi, to Receive Career Achievement Award At Cineasia
Neighbors will receive a Career Achievement Award at CineAsia, Thursday, December 8, 2022, during the Annual Awards Ceremony at the Millennium Hilton in Bangkok. Xperi invents, develops, and delivers technologies that enable extraordinary experiences delivered via its brands (DTS®, TiVo®, HD Radio™, & IMAX Enhanced), making entertainment more entertaining. Congratulations, Bill! Read more
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BB Media Becomes a Member of DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group
Tom Gennari, CEO of BB Media said: “We have in mind a strong business plan that will get us to expand within this industry. And so being a part of DEG means working alongside a partner that understands the importance of sharing information and resources, of creating opportunities that will move forward the industry and the market in general. Here at BB Media we believe in data and growth, and luckily for us so does DEG.” Thanks for the shoutout, Tom! Read more
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GfK Entertainment
No. 1 - Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
No. 2 - Where the Crawdads Sing (Sony)
No. 3 - Minions: The Rise of Gru (Universal)
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NPD
No. 1 - Elvis (Warner Bros.)
No. 2 - Minions: The Rise of Gru (Universal)
No. 3 - Where the Crawdads Sing (Sony)
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Redbox/Media Play News
No. 1 - Elvis (Warner Bros.)
No. 2 - Minions: The Rise of Gru (Universal)
No. 3 - Where the Crawdads Sing (Sony)
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October 18
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
October 20
Online
November 15
Los Angeles
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Click here to see more industry events on the DEG web site.
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