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When your revenue depends on one thing working, everything else becomes negotiable.
Sony Pictures Entertainment posted $9.9 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025. A flat line that looks stable until you see what's holding it up. Crunchyroll anime titles and the global success of "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu…
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Pablo Torre walked away from ESPN in 2023 to launch a daily sports podcast with no institutional backing. That podcast just won a Pulitzer Prize. The recognition matters, but the business model matters more. Torre's…
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The pipes that carried money, attention, and stories through the media ecosystem for the past 15 years are cracking. Google traffic that publishers built entire business models around has collapsed. Festival circuits that determined which…
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The argument ended when the receipts came in. China's May Day weekend box office put "The Devil Wears Prada 2" in third place behind two domestic productions, with "Vanishing Point" pulling RMB164.7 million ($24.2 million)…
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Five streaming subscribers are trying to do what state attorneys general haven't: stop the Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. These aren't just long-shot legal challenges. They're contesting media consolidation on entirely new grounds, using arguments about…
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Who controls access to media content is getting answered in real time, and the answers are revealing who has leverage and who does not. Publishers are choosing which tech platforms to align with in the…
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The Print Revival Keeps Generating Real Jobs For all the talk about digital-first everything, print editorial design talent remains stubbornly in demand. Today's listings include a remote art director role focused entirely on magazine layout,…
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Higher Ed Is Quietly Building Some of the Best Marketing Teams in Media A pattern keeps surfacing in today's listings that deserves attention: educational institutions are aggressively recruiting senior marketing and communications leaders, and they're…
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The programmatic advertising supply chain is being redrawn from three directions at once, and the companies doing the redrawing are not talking to each other. Ad tech platforms including Comcast's FreeWheel, Index Exchange, and The…
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A mentalist cancels a late-night appearance days after being named headliner for the White House Correspondents Dinner. The connection isn't subtle. When political power targets a television host by name, the ripple effects move fast…
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