Adobe & Disney Ink Strategic Alliance for AI Tools
Adobe and The Walt Disney Company have sealed a multi-year strategic alliance covering AI-powered creative tools, marketing activations, customer storytelling, and more.
Unlocking Revenues & Audiences on YouTube: Three Models
Perspectives on finding new audiences and revenues on YouTube from an indie studio, a leading channels group, and a digital-first optimizer.
Fifth Season Lands Sales on The Blame
The Blame, a crime drama produced by Quay Street Productions for ITV, has landed its first round of international deals at Fifth Season.
Inter Medya Seals Microdrama Deals
Inter Medya has sealed several distribution deals for its slate of Turkish microdramas, including with TelevisaUnivision's ViX.
Scripted Roundup: Leadership Changes, Licensing Plays, & Known IP
Co-production insights; Netflix reshuffles its content leadership and leans on licensing; K-drama deals keep coming; and crime, reboots, and known IP drive the month’s distribution activity. Sign up to receive ScreenMDM Scripted Digest here.
ScreenMDM Selects+: Tim Mutimer Talks Tempting Fortune
Tim Mutimer, CEO of Cineflix Rights, tells ScreenMDM about Tempting Fortune, a reality competition format adapted in seven markets, including the U.K. on Channel 4.
Pocket.watch Takes on Galápagos Islands Doc Reef to Ridge
Pocket.watch has expanded its alliance with filmmaker Mark Vins, creator of the Brave Wilderness YouTube channel, taking on distribution rights to his new Galápagos Islands documentary, Reef to Ridge.
Go Button Media Scores New Autentic Greenlights
Autentic has commissioned from Go Button Media the new series Engineering Marvels and a second season of Secrets of Ancient Structures.
Funding Factual, Seeking Breakthrough Ideas & Making Sense of YouTube
Factual buyers and format commissioners are hunting for breakthrough ideas; true crime and megaformats are still hot; and everyone is trying to make sense of YouTube. Subscribe to ScreenMDM Factual & Formats Digest here for a monthly recap of the trends reshaping these sectors of the business.
Gen A to Z: Baby Shark and Beyond with Pinkfong USA’s Dave Levy
South Korea’s The Pinkfong Company may be best known for the most-watched video of all time on YouTube, but it has ambitions well beyond the viral Baby Shark Dance, Dave Levy, head of studio at Pinkfong USA, tells ScreenMDM Talks.
Content Americas Adds Kids’ Summit
Content Americas, taking place in Miami from January 18 to 21, 2027, is introducing a kids' content summit and pavilion.
Nelson Huynh Joins Nelvana’s Sales Team
Nelson Huynh has been tapped to lead sales for Nelvana across the Asia-Pacific and in the U.K. and Ireland.
Kartoon Channel! Lands on Fetch TV
Lightning International has sealed a deal with Fetch TV to bring the Kartoon Channel! to the Australian platform's Kids Pack and Ultimate Pack.
The Kids’ Business Reinvents Itself
From Greg Dray’s rousing MIPJunior address to the new summit looking to fill a market need for the kids’ sector; recapping the month in coverage on ScreenMDM Kids/YA. Sign up to receive ScreenMDM Kids/YA Digest here.
ScreenMDM Selects+
Distributed by Cineflix Rights, Tempting Fortune is an epic competition with a twist: 12 strangers trek through a hostile jungle while costly temptations threaten to slash a shared prize pot.
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On our watch lists this week: Nocturne, The Celebrity Traitors, Swipe Right on the Devil, and Tall Tales & Murder. Plus reflections on a one-year anniversary, the brilliance of MobLand season 2, and lots of Catherine O'Hara love.
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An Anniversary Missive: Reflections on Hitting the One-Year Mark
WPP Media: YouTube Premium Among Top Five Paid Streamers in CEE
9:16, FAST, Discovery, and the YouTube Effect
“Premium Has to Be Populist”: Scripted TV Rethinks What Audiences Want
Previewing MIP Cancun with María Pérez-Bellière
More Than Half of Viewers 18 to 24 Use Short-Form Vertical Video for Discovering New Content
The SwitchScreen: FAST Times with Rakuten TV’s Cédric Dufour
Viewpoint: The Four Horsemen of the Streaming Apocalypse
Netflix Chiefs Talk Engagement, Peter Rice, Content Licensing & TF1 Pact
Lucy Smith on Disruption, Evolution & Reshaping the Content Business’s Biggest Annual Event
Broadcast Plus YouTube: The RTL Deutschland Example
Jeff Zucker & Marco Bassetti on Scale & Leaning into Live & Sports
A MIA Moment with Jane Tranter
Doc Buyers at MIA: The Funds are Available; The Ideas Need Work
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