David Bloom

Most MSOs have been moving away from the original basis of their business for years. Hear us now and believe us later -- it's really happening this time

HBO’s return to channels shows that what made sense just 30 months ago in go-go 2020 doesn’t anymore in the suddenly cash-strapped streaming biz

Below the surface, the sleeping giant with a $960 billion market cap, a movie and TV studio, and major-league sports rights, seems to be making big plans

Will Iger pull back on the promises to Wall Street both he and Bob Chapek made of reaching break-even on streaming spending by 2024?

And for all of Bob Chapek’s missteps, would Disney really have been that much better off with Bob Iger running things the past three years?

Maybe they should consider getting out of streaming altogether and focus on a Sony-style approach of selling great content to the highest bidder

One side is enduring billions in quarterly losses to get to DTC profitability. The other is retreating into questionably viable linear refuge. Who's right?

Co-viewing is as old as TV itself, and new research says that 80% of CTV is watched by two or more viewers in a household at the same time … which majorly undermines CTV’s tightly targeted value proposition

A 1.0 demo rating just won Broadcast premiere week. Cord cutting's gone next level. And the box office is half of Its pre-pandemic size. Why the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO is going to have to squeeze real hard to make his strategy work

Three years after its launch, we still know very little about Apple TV Plus ... except maybe that Apple seems to really believe in it

Why reattaching News Corp. to Fox will be the corporate equivalent of moving all the deck chairs to a single cruise ship as it plows ahead into iceberg-filled waters

A streaming service armed with Universal Studios, NBC, Bravo and its own productions? But with only 15 million paying customers? Why I don't think my old boss would have been kind to Jeff Shell and Company

When the ‘thread’ they’re hanging from finally gives way, and the Traddies fall off the ‘precipice,’ where and how do they go splat?

The veteran media exec recounts working with Steve Jobs on Pixar’s first movie, helping Kirk Kirkorian cash in on MGM amid the DVD gold rush and shifting Cinedigm into the streaming age

All of a sudden, both Comcast and Disney say they love Hulu. But do you starve the ones you really love?

Or how a broadcast industry trade group somehow rushed the video business into its frantic two-minute offense by suggesting half the audience for an Amazon Thursday night game — a throwaway preseason one! — came from local stations

Amazon blocked fan reviews until 72 hours after the show’s Prime Video debut, so that it could better evaluate whether armchair critics actually watched the show

There’s plenty of reason for skepticism about Nielsen’s cross-platform measurement schemes. For starters, was this really the first time streaming has surpassed linear pay TV?

How will streaming services consistently identify, acquire and develop projects that resonate? That’s going to require ever better ways to measure and predict success

The three Disney-owned streaming services now have ever-so-slightly more subscribers together than Netflix does all by itself. Did someone in Burbank just come up with a perfect distraction?

In the age of streaming, where content access is near bottomless, how much content is enough? How long is that tail? And what do we do with the slightly older stuff no one is looking for or watching?