In the Lab with Luminate

A pioneering force in the business of digital-native sports and entertainment content expounds on strategy in this rapidly evolving corner of the industry.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Assistants vs. Agents founder Warner Bailey details the impact social media — and studios’ efforts to compete with it — have had on entry-level roles in entertainment. I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warner Bros. Discovery Head of Corporate Research Natasha Hritzuk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Consumers are living in an increasingly "split screen" world when it comes to the divide between social video and premium film and TV. To understand how different age groups navigate this marketplace, Tania Missad, executive VP of insights, research and analytics at Sony Pictures Entertainment, shares her latest research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that Luminate's 2025 Film & TV Year-End Report has crowned Peacock’s “Love Island USA” the most-watched streaming original of the year, learn more about how Peacock is leveraging this massive audience to bring eyeballs to the streamer’s linear-channel sibling Bravo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One year into the cable channel Vice TV’s pivot to sports programming, Gaffney gives an update on how the strategy is connecting with viewers while noting upcoming new series that make good on the new brand positioning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film, TV and other video content producers and rights owners are already licensing content for AI training, led by an emerging crop of data brokers helping to negotiate training rights licenses between media companies and AI companies. Focused on audiovisual content, Protege Media chief content officer Dave Davis reveals what they’ve learned from two years of dealmaking. Learn more about your ad c...

Racking up 20 million subscribers for a niche service would be enough to tip the hat to the 10-year-old Curiosity Stream. But what's even more distinctive about this business is CEO Clint Stinchcomb's pioneering effort to aggressively license its library as AI training data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The explosive global growth of anime content is analyzed in depth with insights from the top executive at the genre's leading brand. Purini details Crunchyroll's approach from its core business in streaming to ancillary markets in movies, merchandise and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chatterley breaks down the current state of piracy across the entertainment industry and what companies can learn from unlicensed consumer demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lopez, founder of the podcast company Wondery, discusses the challenges streaming services including Netflix and Disney+ face in a a mobile-centric era dominated by the likes of TikTok and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music Business Worldwide publisher Tim Ingham goes deep on the state of the music industry. He has diligently covered the music industry since 2015 and earlier this year launched the Music Business Database, a one-stop shop for over 150 charts and 2,500 data points.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices