Tag: Disney
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Disney Is Bringing Shoppable Ads to TVs
Disney is joining a growing number of companies to provide users with a way to instantly buy products they see on TV. The media giant last week launched a beta program of Gateway Shop, its first streaming shoppable ad format. Through Gateway Shop, viewers will receive personalized prompts for products that are sent by push…
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Disney Exec Warns More Shows May See Fewer Seasons Because of the New Actors Deal
The new collective bargaining agreement struck between the major Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild may have an impact on the longevity of future shows, according to one Walt Disney executive. The increasingly complex terms gives actors more flexibility to move on to projects and makes it more costly to retain them for future…
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Disney Is Reportedly In Advanced Talks To Sell Part of ESPN To The NFL As It Prepares to Launch A Standalone Streaming Service
Back in July of 2023, in an interview with CNBC, Disney CEO Bob Iger left an option open to sell some of its TV assets as it struggles with cord-cutting. This included selling part of ESPN to a partner. That was quickly followed up by a report that Disney is in talks with the NFL,…
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Disney is Bringing its Free Live TV Channels To Other Free Streaming Services For The First Time
Disney’s free ad-supported content may be coming to LG channels. National Geographic’s Sharkfest and Wicked Tuna have launched on LG Channels, according to The Fastmaster‘s Gavin Bridge, marking the first time non-news Disney content has been available on platform other than the ABC app. The two National Geographic channels are not exclusive to LG, Cord…
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The Hulu on Disney+ Beta Has ‘Far Exceeded’ Expectations Ahead of Its Full Launch
The beta launch of the Hulu on Disney+ app is off to a solid start. During a livestreamed fireside chat on LinkedIn on Thursday, Disney President of Global Advertising Rita Ferro said the service “has far exceeded every metric we had planned for it in the short period of time that we’ve had it.” As…
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Disney Launches a Free Streaming Service to Take on Pluto TV & Tubi – Here is Everything You Need to Know
Free ad-supported streaming services are one of the fastest-growing areas in cord cutting. FOX owns Tubi, Paramount owns Pluto TV, NBC Universal has Xumo Play, and Warner Bros. Discovery is launching a service called WBTV at some point in the future. That is just the free services owned by a major broadcast TV company. There…
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Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Comcast, & Paramount Lost More Than $5 Billion on Streaming in 2023
Cord cutting has been dominating cable TV, and legacy media companies have yet to figure out how to turn the millions of Americans who are streaming into revenue. According to a report from the Financial Times, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast, and Paramount together have lost more than $5 billion on streaming in 2023. Comcast…
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Netflix Acquires Lost, Prison Break, and a Dozen More Disney Shows
Lost finds its way back to Netflix as part of a pending content agreement with Disney that will give the platform streaming rights to more than a dozen Disney series, including Prison Break and White Collar. The deal is part of a short-term domestic content agreement that grants Netflix the licensing to 14 Disney shows…
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Disney Owes Thousands for Infringing Visual Effects Tech To Make “Beauty and the Beast”
A California court on Thursday ruled that The Walt Disney Company used another company’s motion-capture technology without permission. In its 2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, the media giant used MOVA Contour software, a technology owned by visual effects firm Rearden, without proper licensing to render the face of actor Dan Stevens, who…
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“Steamboat Willie” Mickey and Minnie Will Become Public Domain on January 1
The next Public Domain Day, or January 1, 2024, will release the earliest version of iconic Disney couple Mickey and Minnie Mouse from the media giant’s copyright. The black-and-white cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was one of the first times audiences were introduced to Mickey and Minnie. Copyright laws are a bit tricky (Duke University has a…