Sahil Patel is a media reporter and executive assistant to @mvpeers at The Information. With his expertise in the media industry, Sahil covers a wide range of topics including streaming, social media, advertising, and the business side of content creation. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Medium, and the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
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Sahil Patel's coverage heavily focuses on the media industry, particularly streaming platforms, corporate acquisitions, and advertising. His interest in expert commentary and exclusive insights suggests he would be responsive to pitches from industry experts offering unique perspectives on trends or developments within the media sector.
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By: Sahil Patel
Disney has agreed to form a joint venture with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries to merge its Star India business with Reliance’s Viacom18. The combined company, which will include Disney-owned TV networks and its Disney+ Hotstar streaming service in India as well as Viacom18’s networks and rival streaming service, is valued at about $8.5 billion on a post-money basis, the
By: Brendon Thorne, Sahil Patel
Here we go again! TikTok is back in the crosshairs of the U.S. government and it’s already using the most valuable marketing real estate at its disposal—its own app—to rally U.S. users to its defense.
BuzzFeed’s revenue dropped 26% to $75.7 million during the fourth quarter of 2023. This excludes the Complex Networks assets it recently sold off, but reflects an ongoing decline in advertising revenue for digital media firms.Ad revenue for BuzzFeed fell 25% to $31.9 million during the fourth quarter and content revenue, which primarily consists of custom content the company makes on behalf
Hulu is now available as a tile on the Disney+ app in the U.S. for customers who subscribe to both streaming services. The integrated Disney+ with Hulu app costs $9.99 per month for subscribers who choose the ad-supported option of both services. Both services will also remain available as standalone options.In beta tests, the addition of Hulu content to Disney+ drove users to spend more time
By: Sahil Patel
A second independent shareholder advisory firm has come out in favor of billionaire Nelson Peltz and Trian Fund Management’s proxy fight against Disney. Trian announced on Wednesday that Egan-Jones is recommending Disney shareholders vote for both Peltz and former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo, Trian’s other nominee, to join Disney’s board of directors. Last week, proxy firm Institutional Shareholder
It’s been a year since YouTube started sharing Shorts ad revenue with creators that meet certain audience requirements, and it’s starting to pay off. Sort of.More than 25% of YouTube channels in its YouTube Partnership Program are now earning revenue on its short-form videos, YouTube said. With ...
By: Mike Sullivan, Kaya Yurieff, Sahil Patel
Not long after Mary Ellen Coe joined YouTube as chief business officer in late 2022, leaders at the streaming video behemoth began intensifying their questions about a team of YouTube staffers who provided support to content creators. They wanted to know if the team was worth the money YouTube was investing in it, said a person involved in these meetings.
It might be the bleakest chart in the media business: the severe loss of subscribersin recent years among cable and satellite companies, which for decades were the primary way people subscribed to old-fashioned television channels such as CBS and ESPN. Amid the gloom, though, one company has ...
By: Mike Sullivan, Sahil Patel
In television, what’s old is new again. After more than a decade of growth in streaming services that make viewers click on shows they want to watch “on demand,” a growing number of streaming services are offering new “channels” that function more like old-style TV, with a continuous, scheduled stream of shows.
It’s very likely that you have heard the term “FAST channel” bandied about recently, considering how often it gets brought up within the streaming industry. These “free ad-supported television” channels have proliferated on internet services like Pluto TV, Tubi and The Roku Channel that carry a ...
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