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Livestream Commerce Enters Its $3.7 Trillion Era — and TV Is Changing With It
As livestream commerce heads toward $3.7 trillion by 2030, U.S. broadcasters, retailers, and FAST platforms are pivoting to shoppable content — and Korea faces the same shift amid a TV home-shopping slump.
Sphere's Wall Street Communications Hire: An Immersive-Venue Contest, and a New Stage — and Test — for Korean Content
As Sphere installs Wall Street veteran Karen Laureano-Rikardsen as its communications chief and shifts weight from its single Las Vegas asset to franchise licensing, its immersive-venue rivalry with Cosm is being recast as a contest of capital and partnerships rather than a "better screen"
News Corp vs. Brave: Is It Search—or the Resale of News Content for AI?
News Corp has filed a copyright infringement countersuit against privacy-focused search engine company Brave Software, alleging that Brave collected and copied content from its publications without authorization and then profited by selling it to artificial intelligence companies.
Cable is shrinking, but ‘The Five’ keeps growing — what Korea’s news and FAST players should watch
As cable news audiences shrink, Fox News' roundtable "The Five" has grown 148% over 15 years by selling not news but the experience of familiar hosts in conversation—a low-cost talent-and-format model that Korea's linear and FAST players can learn from.
Cable News’ ‘Big Three’ Are Racing Ahead of the Bundle’s Collapse
Pay TV is collapsing but news viewing holds: Fox News, MS NOW and CNN are spending linear cash to build beyond the bundle — and Korea’s JTBC (out of runway) and YTN (mid-transition) are the same fork at home. For Korea’s news channels, the question is no longer whether to move, but how fast.
Disney’s AI Strategy — From a Marquee Deal to In-House Capability, Reset Across Two Fronts
After its $1B OpenAI deal collapsed, Disney’s AI strategy shifted from external partnership to in-house capability — raising velocity while disciplining “tokenmaxxing” in engineering, accelerating storytelling with Adobe, NVIDIA and Meta in creative
U.S. Judge Halts Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger in Antitrust Fight
A U.S. federal court in the Northern District of California issued a 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the $111 billion Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger in a 12-state antitrust suit, freezing the deal and setting up the August 3 preliminary injunction hearing
‘The Odyssey’ Validates the Imax Economy as Asia-Pacific Drives the Format Toward a $1.4 Billion Year
The $264.1 million (approximately KRW 393.0 billion) global opening of ‘The Odyssey’ demonstrates the pricing power of premium formats, while Imax is using Asia-Pacific and local-language production to target $1.4 billion (approximately KRW 2.083 trillion) in global box office for 2026.
Dealers Bid Against Each Other for Your Car: LA Venture Capital Shifts Toward Vertical AI and Marketplace Redesign
LA venture capital is shifting away from general AI and moving toward vertical AI, marketplace redesign, and hard tech.
Netflix Posts $12.56 Billion in Q2 as 'Season 2 Slump' Sounds a Growth Alarm — and K-Content Offers Hope
Netflix posted Q2 2026 revenue of $12.56B and net income of $3.4B but shares fell nearly 9% after it guided Q3 growth to just 11.7%, as a "season two slump" stoked slowdown fears, even as Korean content reaffirmed its central role in Netflix's non-English strategy
FCC Moves to Scrap the 85-Year-Old 39% Ownership Cap — and the Industrial Language Missing From Korea's Broadcast Debate
The U.S. FCC will vote August 6 to scrap the 85-year-old 39% national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with case-by-case public-interest review while in Korea, top media group Joongang defaulted on JTBC's 20.6 billion-won debt amid regulation debate stuck not industry logic.
Record Revenue Amid a 75% Traffic Collapse: Newsweek's Second Transformation
While web traffic collapsed 75% — from 100 million to 23 million monthly readers — Newsweek is on track to cross $100 million in annual revenue for the first time in its 93-year history, completing its "Second Transformation" away from search-driven programmatic ads and toward AdPrime, Nexus