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Sony Corporation delivered better-than-expected financials for the second quarter of 2018, with a 6-percent revenue gain to 2.2 trillion yen ($19.6 billion) and a net income of 173 billion yen ($1.5 billion), driven by its gaming business.

Writer and producer Chris Van Dusen, who most recently served as co-executive producer on Scandal, has signed a multiyear series overall deal with Netflix.

Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks are closing down the FilmStruck streaming service at the end of next month.

Fremantle has tapped Jennifer Collins, most recently head of nonfiction at Screentime and formerly ABC’s head of entertainment, to serve as director of content within the Australian business.

In the third quarter of this year, there were 260 M&A deals in the U.S. media and telecoms space, according to PwC, a 9-percent gain on the year-ago period.

According to new research from WARC, which provides insights on advertising and media effectiveness, by 2023, advertisers will spend $46.6 billion on AVOD, almost double the current investment level.

There are now 50 live linear channels available to users of iflix, with new additions that include Al Jazeera, Trace Sports and beIN.

Gains at NBCUniversal helped drive a 5-percent increase in third-quarter revenues at Comcast Corporation, with net profit up 9.3 percent.

Diversity and content ingenuity were among the key topics addressed under the market's theme “The Big Shift.”

The October/MIPCOM 2017 issue of World Screen has been honored by the Gold Ink Awards, the most prestigious awards ceremony for the printing industry, winning gold for best-printed trade magazine in the world.