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...An advertiser exodus from Elon Musk’s X gathered pace on Friday, with Apple, Walt Disney, Comcast, Paramount and Warner Bros all pausing spending on the social media platform amid concerns about antisemitic...
...“For much of the past four years, the entertainment industry spent money like drunken sailors to fight the first salvos of the streaming wars,” Michael Nathanson, an analyst MoffettNathanson, wrote in November...
...“He’s made some very tough decisions,” says Michael Ovitz, co-founder of CAA. “He had no choice.” There is an existential matter for Zaslav, who declined to be interviewed, to contend with, however....
...The film also features performances by Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck, who are reprising their roles as Batman....
...The investment by Warner Bros follows a July agreement it struck with the PTO in July to screen the races live....
...Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson, questioned whether the service, priced at $5 a month, can be a “big enough lifeboat” for the company as it grapples with a declining traditional television...
...Even after recovering somewhat in the past few weeks, the stock prices of the largest media groups — Disney, Netflix, Comcast, Spotify, Roku, Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery, The New York Times and...
...Netflix’s stumble has set off a sell-off across media stocks, wiping tens of billions in value from giants such as Disney and Warner Bros....
...“We have witnessed a company go from a growth darling to growth purgatory in an instant,” Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson, wrote in a research note....
...Shares in Warner Bros Discovery fell 5 per cent on Wednesday, while Disney was down 4 per cent and Paramount Global lost 10 per cent....
...The company’s extraordinary success inspired many of America’s largest media conglomerates to launch or buy their own streaming platforms, including Disney’s Hulu and Disney Plus; Warner Bros Discovery’s...
...We have been forced to write about MicroStrategy and its yachtophile CEO Michael Saylor a few times lately....
...After chief executive and large boat enthusiast Michael Saylor spent the weekend at the bitcoin conference in Miami not being a bro, the company announced Monday that it was, you guessed it, raising $400m...
...“It should be clear by now that the US streaming market has become much more competitive,” said Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson....
...After years of heady growth, “middle age appears to be setting in”, said Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson....
...“Investors should be concerned about [Netflix] subscriber growth in the US and Canada,” said Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson....
...So did PayPal co-founder Elon Musk and Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz, a renowned tech investor and early Google backer....
...And as can be expected, he also has a loud Twitter account with the bitcoin-bro-batman-signal of photoshopped laser eyes on the profile shot. Anyway, back to today’s events....
...Michael Carroll, analyst at RBC, predicted that moviegoing “will look different” after Covid-19 passes....
...“Within the media sector, there is Disney and then there is everyone else,” said Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson....
...The pandemic has weighed heavily on AT&T’s media business, which includes the Warner Bros movie studio, as cinemas across the US have remained closed and production suspended....
...Michael Armstrong, an aerospace specialist who was instrumental in launching DirecTV, was drafted in as chief executive of the slimmed down telecoms company in 1997....
...Get the full story from the FT’s Michael Pooler and DD’s Rob Smith here....
...For instance, he says, Biden shuns the “bombastic” approach taken by the “Bernie bros” — the moniker for the most radical wing of Sanders’ movement....
...asked Michael Nathanson, a media analyst at MoffettNathanson....
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