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Google-owned YouTube has surpassed Netflix in average daily usage, according to new data from London-based Digital i. YouTube has approximately 2.7 billion monthly active users worldwide, while Netflix has 325 million paid subscribers and 780 million monthly average users. Citing a shift in consumption from mobile devices to TV screens, and how audience engagement compares … Continue reading “Report: YouTube Overtakes Netflix for Average Daily Viewing Time”

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New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat II debuts for premium digital rental and sale on June 9 and on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc July 28 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. The film has earned $125.6 million at the global box office. In the latest installment in the blockbuster video game-based … Continue reading “‘Mortal Kombat II’ Due on Premium Digital June 9, on Disc July 28”

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Starz on June 1 announced it has hired industry veteran Jim Kapenstein as its chief legal and strategy officer. Kapenstein, who will join Starz next week, spent nearly three decades at The Walt Disney Co., most recently as deputy general counsel, managing and supervising Disney’s corporate team. In his new role at Starz, Kapenstein will … Continue reading “Starz Appoints Former Disney Exec Jim Kapenstein as Chief Legal and Strategy Officer”

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A24’s gamble on former teen Youtuber Ken Parsons appears to have captured lightening in a bottle. The 20-year-old Parsons first theatrical film, Backrooms — based in part on his YouTube series, “The Backrooms’ — is dominating the last weekend in May box office with a projected $81 million in opening North American ticket sales through … Continue reading “A24’s ‘Backrooms’ Stuns Weekend Box Office With $81 Million Debut”

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Roku’s biggest home screen redesign in more than a decade is not just a user interface update. It is a reminder that one of the most important battlegrounds in streaming is no longer just inside the apps themselves. It is increasingly the screen viewers see before they choose what to open. For years, the streaming … Continue reading “Roku’s Home Screen Redesign Shows Why Streaming Discovery Is Moving Upstream”

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The action thriller The Get Out will be available for digital sale and rental on June 30 after a limited theatrical run starting June 26. The Get Out follows the story of a nightclub owner (Russell Crowe) who is on the verge of leaving his dangerous past behind for retirement with his girlfriend (Teresa Palmer). … Continue reading “Russell Crowe Thriller ‘The Get Out’ Debuts Digitally June 30”

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Stadium Media has begun to release Wanda Diamond League Track and Field meets for digital purchase (EST). Stadium released Wanda Diamond League 2011: Eugene on May 5; Wanda Diamond League 2012: Oslo on May 12; Wanda Diamond League 2013: Eugene on May 19; and Wanda Diamond League 2014: Brussels on May 26, in which stars … Continue reading “Stadium Media Rolling Out ‘Wanda Diamond League’ Track and Field Meets for Digital Purchase”

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HDR10+ Technologies, an industrywide consortium with more than 180 adopter companies, has been selected to administer the program for Eclipsa Video, a new open source video standard. Eclipsa Video is based upon SMPTE 2094-50, the recently developed specification created by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, with experts from Google, Apple and NBCUniversal … Continue reading “HDR10+ Technologies to Launch Eclipsa Video Program”

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New market data from Mediavision finds that 50% of Denmark’s household video platforms are foreign, led by market No. 1 Netflix with almost 1.8 million paid subscribers. The international tally of streamers in the Nordic country is up from 47% market share in 2025. The top domestic platform, TV2 Play, has about 1 million subscribers … Continue reading “Report: Netflix Remains Atop Danish Streaming Market”

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John Reina, a longtime sales executive at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and its predecessor, Columbia TriStar Home Video, died May 23 in Phoenix. He was 78. Reina is best remembered in the home video industry for his long tenure at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, where according to his LinkedIn profile he served as SVP of … Continue reading “Home Video Vet John Reina Dies at 78, Had Long Career at Sony Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment”

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