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CNBC
A Look At the Fallout Between Bob Chapek and Bob Iger as Disney Restructures for a World Where Streaming Dominates
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| April 12, 2020. That's the day former Disney CEO Bob Iger's relationship with his handpicked successor, current Disney CEO Bob Chapek, began to fall apart. | |
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Media
Golden Age of Streaming Could Cost Viewers up to £2,500 a Year
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| The TV and video services that saved the UK from lockdown boredom – Britons spent 40% of their waking hours stuck at home watching TV – are no longer being viewed as the sacrosanct household essentials they were at the height of Covidpandemic | |
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TVBEurope
Netflix’s ‘Skip Intro’ Button is Pressed 136 Million Times a Day
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| According to a blog post by Cameron Johnson, the streamer’s director of product innovation, in a typical day, the ‘Skip Intro’ button is pressed 136 million times, which he says saves viewers 195 years in cumulative time. | |
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Benedict Evans
TV, Merchant Media and the Unbundling of Advertising — Benedict Evans
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| The margin differential between e-commerce and advertising has become a much bigger story than Amazon: everyone from Uber to Walmart to Instacart is pushing into ‘merchant media’, and hiring at scale | |
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Variety
Nielsen Rejects Private Equity Group’s Bid to Acquire Measurement Company
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| Nielsen has been under a microscope for months. TV networks and their owners have grown disenchanted with Nielsen’s ability to count viewers who may watch their favorite programs via digital means, on mobile screens on through streaming video. | |
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TVBEurope
Analysts: UK is Largest OTT Revenue Earner in Western Europe
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| SVoD far exceeds any other revenue source for Western Europe. IT will increase by $13 billion between 2021 and 2027 to $30 billion. AVoD will add $6 billion to reach $12 billion. | |
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Protocol
Cord Cutting is Sending TV Networks to the Cloud
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| Cord cutting isn’t just changing the way we watch TV; it’s also fundamentally transforming how television networks are operating. This transformation is being driven by a small set of streaming tech startups | |
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