February 2025
TV outlets keep multiplying with SVoD, AVoD, and FAST. The number of quality TV production keeps dropping. Overall, advertising money keeps increasing. Linear TV outlets continue to be profitable. And (…)
The E.U. Media Freedom Act
Could Be Great if Understood
In 1939, Winston Churchill said, “Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The same can be said in 2025 about the European Union’s Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which technically (…)
The L.A. Screenings
Phoenix Rises. Event Dates
VideoAge’s symbol for this year’s edition of the L.A. Screenings is the phoenix, the mythological bird that rises from the ashes. The Screenings, now in its 62nd year, is scheduled (…)
Moving Talent from Social
Media to OTT, Legacy Media
Below is a transcript of a podcast with Bianca Serafini, former head of Content Licensing at Viral Nation, hosted by VideoAge‘s editorial staff, and available on all major digital platforms.
VideoAge: (…)
January 2025
Streaming is a content-delivery model that is now replicating legacy media’s losing content-delivery model in an effort to finally find success.
Development: Greenlight
Turns Into Redlight
Why is it so difficult to produce a hit these days? It was always hard, of course, but now it seems all but impossible. Years ago, U.S. TV outlets used (…)
The Future Reality of FAST
Channels Not Yet Explored
FAST channels seem to be taking over the television business — not just in the U.S., but across the world. But how long can this last? FAST feeds on content (…)
MIPTV Didn’t Move to London,
London Moved to MIP
While much has been written elsewhere about MIPTV and the market’s move from Cannes to London, with integration into the London Screenings, nothing has been said about how the “TV (…)