Wayne Friedman

Video podcasts keep soaring -- including advertising revenue. There are 16,478 podcasts in the U.S. out of 34,208 global video podcasts overall, according to estimates from Million Podcasts.

National TV viewership of Major League Baseball through the halfway point of the season has seen a sharp overall hike — especially for NBCUniversal and for Fox Television Network.

Signaling that its its ownership of and investments in cable TV networks could be changing, Walt Disney is expected to sell its longtime 50% interest

The latest edition of Sony Pictures' big franchise movie title “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” soared to a massive $355 million in domestic box-office revenue -- for the second-biggest opening weekend ever, according to Comscore.

AMC Global Media has a co-exclusive $500 million deal with Netflix to license "The Walking Dead" that allows the brand to stream the content on Netflix and AMC+, AMC's own in-house platform.

For the first six months of 2026, Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and HBO Max's “The Pitt” claimed first- and third-place results in terms of total

Good news for the theatrical movie business? Maybe. Cinemark Holdings and Imax Corp. stock prices posted some nice gains. But not everyone.

Paramount Skydance says it secured strong "double-digit percentage" volume gains for its TV advertising upfront selling season.

Disney Advertising says its 2026-27 TV season upfront advertising selling efforts have been completed -- with total volume up by "double digit" percentages versus last year'smarketplace.

Video podcasts are joining the ever-growing list of new mediacompetitors looking to pull money away from traditional TV ad dollars.