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Streaming's Next Growth Story: Going Back to TV
Apple TV’s biggest launch ever came from a weekly release. Weekly titles accounted for 67% of the top 100 U.S. digital originals in 2025, more than double the 33% share of binge drops, and last Christmas Netflix followed back-to-back NFL games
K-Nevada Gateway 2026 to Host Online Information Session on August 28
K-Nevada Gateway 2026 will hold a registration-free Zoom briefing on August 28 to introduce its Reno market-entry program, company selection process, local meetings and potential PoC opportunities.
A Korean technology delegation in Atlanta · October 13–16, 2026
K-Georgia Innovation Mission 2026 (Atlanta, Oct. 13–16) pairs ten Korean tech companies with the Venture Atlanta Conference, and this document covers everything that makes it run: who is coming, what happens each day, the Korean Desk on the conference floor
K-content’s next export is the production engine...Studio Meta K Accelerates Plans for an Initial Public Offering and Global Expansion
: Studio Meta K picks Eugene Investment & Securities to lead its IPO, betting on an end-to-end AI production pipeline — and on selling that pipeline abroad as SaaS rather than selling finished content.
The condition for Korean streaming abroad is not the rate but the clauses
Amazon has moved from selling its own originals to running a shelf for other companies' services, and 67% of US specialty subscriptions pass through that counter. With headroom on subscription price closed, what a Korean operator with little leverage can secure on that shelf is not the 15-30% rate
ABC sues FCC on First Amendment grounds… first hearing set for the week of Oct. 5
ABC and Disney sued the FCC to stop an accelerated review of their station licenses, and the court declined an emergency hearing while attaching a condition: if the FCC issues a hearing designation order, argument follows the next business day.
ACRYL Takes GPU Operations Software GPUBASE to North America… Cumulative Domestic Orders Reach 5.5 Billion Won
ACRYL, a KOSDAQ-listed Korean AX infrastructure software company, is entering the North American market with GPUBASE, a GPU operations platform verified across 1,272 heterogeneous GPUs on three global clouds
An AI Set Beside Sony's Wall, Prompts Given Away Free — a 95-Minute Feature for $500,000, 15 People, 14 Days
Promise has begun hybrid feature production near Sony Pictures' Culver City lot, at an estimated 20% to 50% below conventional cost, while Netflix disclosed generative AI use on roughly 300 titles this year.
Disney+ Pulls Its Own Season 2 Order for 'Wonder Man'… 52% Retention Rate, One Point Under the 53% Safety Line
Disney+ rescinded a Season 2 order for Marvel's Wonder Man four months after issuing it. In Luminate data the show's retention rate held at 52% of starters through the finale — one point under the 53% line Luminate identifies as the safety threshold for new Disney+ series
YouTube doubles its Shorts revenue-sharing bar… ad dollars rise while bundled buys steer delivery to in-stream
Feb. 1, 2027, YouTube doubles the entry bar for its Partner Program to 8,000 qualified watch hours or 20 million Shorts views in 90 days. Agency executives say advertiser spending on Shorts is rising, but bundled YouTube buys push delivery toward the far larger in-stream pool
Reno Tahoe Room Revenue Approaches $500 Million… K-Nevada Gateway Opens in Reno on Sept. 28
Reno Tahoe closed fiscal year 25-26 with taxable room revenue near $500 million, up 8.8%. The gain came from conventions and sporting events plus added airline seats, while Las Vegas visitation rose only 0.2% over the same period. From Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, the same city hosts K-Nevada Gateway 2026
CNN Headlines Turns One… Watch Time Up 179%, Unique Viewers Up 58%
Rather than repackaging cable news, CNN Headlines built its own anchor and its own live programming