Editor & Associate Publisher, World Screen

July 22, 2021 Top Stories

WarnerMedia Sees Q2 Revenue Gains

July 22, 2021

WarnerMedia recorded revenues of $8.8 billion in the second quarter of this year, a 30.7 percent gain on the same period in 2020.

July 21, 2021 Top Stories

Netflix Reports Slower Subscriber Growth in Q2

July 21, 2021

Netflix reported 1.54 million net subscriber additions in the second quarter for a total of 209.2 million paid memberships globally.

July 21, 2021 Top Stories

Reed MIDEM Delivers MIPCOM Update

July 21, 2021

Reed MIDEM has announced several exhibition layout and schedule changes for MIPCOM, including shifting MIPJunior to take place alongside the four-day event.

July 20, 2021 Top Stories

Tim Erickson to Lead Peanuts Worldwide

July 20, 2021

Former Disney, DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox executive Tim Erickson has been tapped to lead Peanuts Worldwide as executive VP of brand, reporting to WildBrain CEO Eric Ellenbogen.

July 19, 2021 Top Stories

Calculus Capital Invests in Brouhaha Entertainment

July 19, 2021

The Calculus Creative Content EIS Fund has made an investment in Brouhaha Entertainment, a new production company founded by Gabrielle Tana, Troy Lum and Andrew Mason.

July 15, 2021 Top Stories

Media Companies Navigate Evolving Regulatory Environment

July 15, 2021

France Télévisions’ Diego Buñuel, BluTV’s Aydin Doğan Yalçindağ, the EBU’s Jean Philip De Tender and Banijay Rights’ Cathy Payne discussed evolving media regulations, funding models and more in a session organized by the Paley Center for Media.

July 13, 2021 Analysis, Top Stories

PwC: Momentum Returns for Entertainment & Media Business

July 13, 2021

The global entertainment and media (E&M) business is rebounding from a Covid-19 pandemic slump, according to PwC, with revenues on track to rise by 6.5 percent this year and 6.7 percent next year.

June 30, 2021 Top Stories

HBO Max Begins Global Expansion

June 30, 2021

The arrival of HBO Max in 39 territories in Latin America and the Caribbean marks the kickoff of the global expansion of the WarnerMedia-owned service.

June 29, 2021 Analysis, Top Stories

Future of TV Report Forecasts Accelerated Cord-Cutting

June 29, 2021

According to a new study, 44 percent of Americans who subscribe to cable TV plan to scale back or cut the cord entirely this year.

June 28, 2021 Analysis, Top Stories

Streaming Content Spend Tops $220 Billion

June 28, 2021

Streamers spent $220.2 billion on producing and licensing content (excluding sports) last year, according to a new report from Purely Streamonomics, a 16.4 percent gain on 2019 numbers.

Mansha Daswani