In an interview published by GQ Magazine in early 2013, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said, "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." Since then, Netflix has released a long string of prestige programming that's garnered dozens of Emm
When Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and its streaming peers took on traditional pay TV, subscriber counts and legacy TV profits weren't the only things to be upended. Among the collateral damage were traditional measures of TV audiences, including Nielsen's long-tenured and widely respe
It's been a wild and unprecedented ride for global stock markets. As of this writing, the S&P 500 is down 20% from its all-time highs set in late February 2020 -- making this one of the fastest-ever corrections on record. Many individual stocks are down even more. Farewell b
The growing competition in streaming is leading subscribers to switch or outright cancel their streaming services more often. Industry churn increased by about 25% last year so the churn rate averaged about 35% in 2019, according to data from Parks Associates.
Stocks across industries are sinking, and a new bear market began this week. But some of the shares that are taking a hit today may not show many battle scars from the coronavirus outbreak when earnings season rolls around. The coronavirus outbreak started in China in January an
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) does not want to help Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) add subscribers. The media giant has told its streaming rival that it won't accept ads from Netflix on its entertainment networks, CNN reported. The House of Mouse will, however, still let the streaming leader
From feast to famine, Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) shares have gone from being darlings of the streaming video revolution in 2019 to languishing as market laggards in 2020. When Roku stock closed below $100 earlier this week, it was the first time the streaming en
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares MSCI ACWI ETF (Symbol: ACWI) where we have detected an approximate $454.0 million dollar inflow -- that's a 5.9% increase week over week in
When Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts said during last July's second-quarter conference call that "for years, we felt that video over the Internet is more friend than foe. We believe it plays to our strengths," it would have been easy to chalk it up as a throwaway comm
The market was crushed on Thursday, extending a brutal sell-off. Highlighting the market's steep decline, the S&P 500 is now down about 25% since Feb. 19. On Thursday alone, the market index fell by 7.6% as of 2:22 p.m. EDT. With a market crash of this magnitude, it's not su
Consumers have more choices than ever when it comes to subscription video on demand, and they're about to get even more. Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced new streaming services late last year. AT&T (NYSE: T), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), and venture-backed
It's a prospect Discovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISCA) CEO David Zaslav has loosely talked about for over a year. But it wasn't until the company's fourth-quarter conference call in February that he plainly said, "We are focusing hard at aggregating our brands into an OTT [over the to