An Analyst Has Crowned the King of Streaming Quality: Can You Guess Which Platform It Is?

An Analyst Has Crowned the King of Streaming Quality: Can You Guess Which Platform It Is?

As the streaming business has moved from a focus on subscriber growth to management teams touting the importance of profitability, the sector has also seen the rise of mentions of such quality-related measures as subscriber retention and “engagement.” “Engagement is critical to reducing churn, [which] might be the most significant opportunity we have,” new Disney…

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Disney+ Strikes Content Deal With Spain’s RTVE in Latest European Broadcaster Collaboration

Disney+ Strikes Content Deal With Spain’s RTVE in Latest European Broadcaster Collaboration

Walt Disney‘s streaming service Disney+ continues to strike what it has consistently described as “landmark” content agreements with big European broadcasters, on Friday adding RTVE in Spain to its list of partners. “Disney+ and RTVE have reached a strategic agreement that will bring a selection of the public broadcaster’s most successful shows to Disney+, beginning…

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#Disney Strikes Pact With Activist Investor ValueAct, Securing Its Support for Slate of Board Members

#Disney Strikes Pact With Activist Investor ValueAct, Securing Its Support for Slate of Board Members

The Walt Disney Co. and activist investor ValueAct Capital Management have entered into a “confidentiality agreement that enables the company to provide information to the investment firm and consult with ValueAct on strategic matters, including through meetings with the Disney board and management,” the Hollywood giant said on Wednesday. As part of the announcement of…

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#Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Jennifer Lee Talks ‘Frozen 3,’ ‘Wish’ and Relying on ‘Cinderella’ as an Escape When She Was Bullied in School

#Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Jennifer Lee Talks ‘Frozen 3,’ ‘Wish’ and Relying on ‘Cinderella’ as an Escape When She Was Bullied in School

The latest on Frozen 3, thoughts on the upcoming Wish and her memories of how watching Cinderella helped her when she used to get bullied in school where among the topics Jennifer Lee, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer and writer and co-director of the Frozen films, discussed in London on Thursday. In a BFI London Film…

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#Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery Among Top Hollywood Stock Gainers in First Quarter

#Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery Among Top Hollywood Stock Gainers in First Quarter

Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global were among the hit Hollywood stocks of the first quarter of 2023, shaking off investor concerns about such industry challenges as record cord-cutting, getting streaming businesses to profitability and economic clouds darkening the advertising outlook, as well as recent stock market volatility due to the collapse of banks….

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