TiVo Channels Expands FAST Channel Slate in U.S. & Europe
TiVo Channels has added a slate of new FAST services to its North American and European footprints, including brands from All3Media International, Banijay Rights, Autentic, and Narrative.
IP Owners: Embracing YouTube, Monetizing on FAST & Driving Discovery
A spotlight on how several leading IP owners are looking at the social video and FAST spaces to boost discovery, build fandoms, drive monetization, and sustain engagement between seasons.
ScreenMDM Factual & Formats Digest: Sunny Side Edition
Your once-a-month recap for trends in the factual and non-scripted formats sectors, with news digests, interviews, analysis & more.
German & French Versions for Holey Moley
Fremantle has landed agreements for Holey Moley to be made for audiences in Germany (Prime Video) and France (TF1).
History Hit Slates Original Series with Ubisoft
History Hit is collaborating with the gaming giant Ubisoft on a YouTube-first series about the world of piracy ahead of the release of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.
Radial & Woodcut Join Forces for Most Evil Expansion
Radial Entertainment will bring World’s Most Evil Women, the latest expansion of the popular Most Evil true-crime franchise from Woodcut Media, to its FilmRise channel this summer.
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Coolabi Group’s Warrior Cats Lands on Disney
Disney Kids & Family has boarded Coolabi Group's adaptation of the Warrior Cats fantasy book series, with a 2028 premiere planned on Disney Channel and Disney+.
LatAm Deals for Banijay Kids & Family
Banijay Kids & Family has secured package deals across LatAm, including with Warner Bros.
CAKE Partners with TV Asahi for Doraemon Distribution
CAKE will take the lead on distribution efforts for TV Asahi’s iconic Doraemon brand in the U.S., Canada, ANZ, and most of EMEA.Discovery and HITN.
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ScreenMDM's inaugural White Paper, Digital-Shift, delivers practical insights for making sense of the trends reshaping content production, monetization, and distribution.
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Show Time with ScreenMDM is our new original series for social video platforms where the team weighs in on what we're watching and why, with an extra layer of analysis on how what we're watching fits into broader audience trends. In this episode: Two Weeks in August, Michael Jackson: The Verdict, Spider-Noir, 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and watching podcasts on the big TV. Email Mansha if you have ideas or want to be a guest.
PBS Distribution’s Tracy Beckett Talks Doc Co-Pros
In time for Sunny Side of the Doc, ScreenMDM caught up with Tracy Beckett, commissioning editor for co-productions and acquisitions at PBS Distribution, about how the commercial arm of the U.S. pubcaster is approaching international collaborations.
Co-Production & Innovation with Serial Maven’s Solange Attwood
From pursuing treaty co-production deals to securing the distribution rights to a curated slate of projects from third-party studios, Serial Maven Studios, led by CEO Solange Attwood, is exploring new models for development, financing, production, distribution, and monetization.
The Off the Fence Rebirth with Bo Stehmeier
Last summer, during Sunny Side of the Doc, news broke of storied factual producer and distributor Off the Fence’s bankruptcy proceedings; a year later, the company, led by CEO Bo Stehmeier, is part of World Storytelling Media Group (WSMG), where it is driving new collaborations and taking a thoughtful approach to AI.
David Cornwall on Scorpion TV’s Indie Journey
David Cornwall, managing director of Scorpion TV, joined ScreenMDM Talks to weigh in on the landscape for independent doc distributors today.
Studio 100’s Martin Krieger on Franchise-Building, Partnerships and Relevance
As Studio 100 International gears up for its Annecy activities, CEO Martin Krieger talks to ScreenMDM about its evolving co-production strategy, production efficiencies, the crucial role of partnerships, including its Maya the Bee alliance with Animaj, and its approach to YouTube.
Autentic’s Mirjam Strasser on Scale & Authenticity
On the heels of Autentic's acquisition of Albatross World Sales, Mirjam Strasser, director of sales and acquisitions, tells ScreenMDM about the importance of scale, the need for authenticity, and the other major trends reshaping the business of factual in the run-up to Sunny Side of the Doc.
The Woodcut Way with Kate Beal
Among the U.K.’s most successful and well-regarded indies, Woodcut Media is building out a full IP management ecosystem across production, distribution, and D2C via YouTube, Kate Beal, founder and CEO, tells ScreenMDM in the latest edition of our Real Talk strand.
Mastering YouTube Monetization with Merzigo’s Yiğit Doğan Çelik
Yiğit Doğan Çelik, chairman and CEO of Merzigo, joins ScreenMDM Talks’ The SwitchScreen strand ahead of StreamTV Show to share the company’s journey from YouTube Turkish drama specialist to a multi-genre and global social media optimizer.
Microdrama Trends with RisingJoy’s Cassandra Yang
Cassandra Yang, CEO and cofounder of RisingJoy, tells ScreenMDM about how the company has assembled a microdrama distribution catalog and its aspirations to evolve into a studio working across original content, co-development, and branded experiences.
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