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We miss the cinema experience! Before the pandemic, prior to the advent of streaming, preceding the endless parade of superhero movies, in the days when a movie ticket was “only” (…)

By Yuri Serafini*

The idea of broadcasting sports on streaming services, in theory at least, extracts the maximum value from willing payers. Viewers subscribe for a season, or perhaps just make (…)

Thus far, it seems like no one has a clear answer as to what an influencer actually does. However, there are a few things that we do know about them. (…)

Back again to talk about football (soccer), but this time it’s about the English clubs. On February 29, the Water Cooler reported that most of Italy’s major football Serie A (…)

On March 14, 2024, 36 film and TV executives — all NATPE veterans — met for lunch at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, California. The (…)

By Dom Serafini

Justice Samuel Alito summarized the Social Media position before the U.S. Supreme Court (here paraphrased): “You say it’s like the Miami Herald (or any other newspaper), and the (…)

All signs point to renewed vigor for markets leading up to and following MIPTV. It all started with the two Miami TV trade shows (NATPE and Content Americas, with a (…)

By Mike Reynolds

Hollywood seems to like sequels on small and large screens, but 2024 may see a very different kind of sequel — and not a very pleasant one, at (…)

The official news came out on Tuesday, March 5, 2024: “The 2025 editions of Realscreen Summit and NATPE Global will co-locate at the InterContinental Miami hotel. Spanning the week of (…)

By Dom Serafini

In September 2022, a year before U.S. car executives were looking to cash in on their Electric Vehicle (EV) bets, being a so-called “know-it-all,” I wrote for a (…)