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Pay for YouTube, Get NBC’s Sports and Series Too
YouTube, which holds 13.4% of U.S. TV watch-time, is folding Peacock and its 1.7% into its own subscription — pulling media companies back from gathering subscribers through their own apps toward selling wholesale to a platform.
Paramount Heads Straight to Trial on the Warner Deal, and Korea's Media Review Has No Market Test
The $111 billion deal is argued in market numbers before closing; the 319.9 billion won YTN transfer was undone on a quorum after ownership had already changed hands. What gets reviewed, and when the dispute happens, produced the two outcomes.
Netflix's YouTube Playbook Won't Fix Its Viewership Problem
Netflix's push to mimic YouTube—loading up on creator content and video podcasts—is unlikely to fix its stalled viewership, signaling it should refocus on flagship film and TV originals; and that hit-drought opens negotiating leverage and opportunity for proven K-content.
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 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