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Julia Alexander May 28, 2025
It’s not clear that outbidding Netflix for a schlocky YouTube show will fix Disney’s engagement woes—but maybe that’s not the point.
Neal Mohan
The video platform’s surprise acquisition of a high-level Disney executive is the latest, and most poignant, strategic advance in its high-stakes, ongoing battle to become the go-to hub for the burgeoning sports media multiverse.
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Julia Alexander May 21, 2025
Nobody in Hollywood seems to have an answer for YouTube’s dominance in streaming video, but executives definitely don’t know what to make of Amazon’s Twitch, the world’s most popular livestreaming platform. But for all its success, why does it still live in YouTube’s shadow?
jimmy pitaro
ESPN hopes its new D.T.C. streaming service… err, app… will become the first stop for sports fans looking to watch a game, place a bet, play fantasy, and anything else sports-related. But it’s a lot harder than it looks—just ask Netflix.


mark lazarus
Julia Alexander May 16, 2025
To survive as solo companies, Versant and the seemingly inevitable WBD spinco will need to transform their news media brands—MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, etcetera—into something more than mere cable channels. Is the New York Times playbook already obsolete?
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Julia Alexander May 14, 2025
U.S.-based streamers, under pressure to grow revenue more than subs, are pivoting their international expansion strategies from “Everything everywhere all at once” to “Do these countries really matter?”
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As Versant prepares for liftoff and David Zaslav prepares his own spinco, the prenup between sports leagues and cable companies is being renegotiated on the fly. And while cable will no longer vie for the largest packages, there is a path forward for a new strategy.
New York Rangers hockey
If Disney’s struggling Fubo TV can figure out how to be the destination aggregator for sports, and attract a significant portion of the 50 million-strong customer base still addicted to cable, it may yet be a viable business.


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Comcast president Mike Cavanagh has touted Peacock’s NBA deal as a “launchpad” to streaming supremacy. But it’s not quite that simple.
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If you want to understand YouTube’s sports ambitions, stop thinking about the platform as another ESPN or Netflix, and see it for what it is: Google’s video gatekeeper.
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