- DC Studios taps James Gunn and Peter Safran to head up film, TV and animation (THR)
- BBC’s longrunning sci-fi series Doctor Who is heading to Disney+ (IGN)
- Spotify exceeds Q3 expectations, reaching 456 million monthly users (Variety)
- The Sea Beast is Netflix’s most viewed original animated film (Cartoon Brew)
- Warner Bros. Discovery to run up nearly US$4.3 billion in restructuring costs (Variety)
- Anime producers are losing faith in Netflix and want a return to linear (Cartoon Brew)
- YouTube removes 2,000 Wolfoo videos, causing US$2 million in losses (Retail News Asia)
- Have Meta shareholders begun to lose confidence in Zuckerberg’s metaverse? (THR)
- DC’s Black Adam sparks US$67-million debut at the US box office (Deadline)
- Ms. Marvel director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct next Star Wars film (THR)
- Corus Entertainment sees 6% drop in revenue in Q4 (Digital TV Europe)
- Warner Bros. Discovery rolls out its first entertainment FAST channel (Variety)
- On-location filming in LA dropped by double digits in Q3, according to new data (Deadline)
- Netflix subscriptions have grown by 2.41 million this quarter (TBI Vision)
- YouTube names a new head of gaming, filling an eight-month vacancy (Bloomberg)
- Video game console sales in the UK had a big jump in September (Games Industry Biz)
- TikTok has overtaken Netflix as the most popular app for under 35s in the US (TBI Vision)
- Northern Ireland is plotting to meet a booming global production demand (Deadline)
- UK broadcaster Sky is shifting away from satellites and launching a plug-in device (Digital TV Europe)
- Microsoft has reportedly laid off hundreds of staff (IGN)
- New data from Adobe finds more than half of non-professional creatives are monetizing content (Variety)
- Comcast has pulled the plug on its G4 TV gaming-focused network (Deadline)
- Google buys edtech data company BrightBytes (EdSurge)
- Banijay has added Mam Tor Productions to its portfolio of acquisitions (TBI Vision)
- Skydance Media raises US$400 million in latest funding round (Deadline)
- Bytedance is reportedly looking to join the music streaming business (Wall Street Journal)
- A new report shows AVODs rising in popularity among UK viewers (Digital TV Europe)
- Gaming is booming, and it’s attracting cybercriminals (NYT)
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