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Disney's flagship subscription streaming service, offering movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.
Dhar Mann has bought a four-acre campus with nine sound stages for his YouTube studio, Variety reported from Mipcom. The supporting figures are reach counts, so a brand weighing a place on those sets still needs viewing data.
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Disney's ad-supported tiers moved 50 cents or not at all while the ad-free ones moved $2.00 to $2.50, so four of its five ad-free plans now sit exactly nine dollars above their ad-supported twin. Disney says its most popular bundle is unchanged.
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Karandeep Anand takes over Disney's technology on 2 October, about a year after Disney's lawyers told the company he ran to strip its characters out of user-made chatbots. Several of his engineers come with him.
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Disney will stream Super Bowl LXI and two Monday Night Football games on Disney+ at no extra cost, alongside the ESPN and ABC broadcasts. Its ad slots sold out in August, before the stream was public, so the added reach mainly serves Disney+ and ESPN's live sports offer.
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Bob Chapek, fired as Disney CEO after less than three years, says he would turn the job down if offered again. He blames a board that brought back Bob Iger, who now sits on it while Josh D'Amaro runs the company.
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Meta priced its glasses-shaped VR headset at $1,299 and moved the processor into a puck you carry in your pocket. Shipping is promised for what the company calls Spring 2027. That means March 2027 at the earliest.
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YouTube will let creators order their vertical clips as episodic series. The format ran up 6.5 billion views on the platform in six months, and the industry behind it is projected to make $14 billion in 2026.
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Karandeep Anand becomes Disney's senior executive vice president and CTO on October 2, reporting to Josh D'Amaro. Disney expects an unspecified number of Character.AI engineers to follow him into a remit covering enterprise systems, data and AI.
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Disney has decided its streaming business is better run by one executive than by two. The memo announcing the change argues the case in the language of decision speed.
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Shop the Show now covers more than 8,000 Prime Video titles and the new Shop the Scene runs on 600 of them, while the conversion evidence is a YouGov survey in which 0.4% of US adults bought after a placement.
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Fortune reports Hugh Johnston sees live sports as a driver of customer lifetime value, and sports advertising did rise 5% while entertainment advertising fell 1%. The segment itself added about $170m of revenue against streaming's $550m.
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The policy lets animators experiment with generative tools while barring them from originating characters, worlds or song lyrics, because Moonbug can only own what a human made. A spokesperson says no episode uses AI yet.
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Google's parked-video upgrade for Android Auto is gated three ways at once: by vehicle motion, by the automaker, and by subscription tier. No ship date came with it.
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The Justice Department says nothing irreversible happens when the FCC designates a broadcast licence for hearing. Disney's filing is about the remedy that gets harder once it does.
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Non-exclusive licensing deals with Ms. Rachel, Mark Rober and the Sidemen invert the exclusivity playbook. The buyer is renting proven audience, not locking it up.
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A Collider report says Disney will prioritize animation for its two biggest franchises. The known live-action pipeline stops after Ahsoka season two and Daredevil's 2027 return.
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VisionQuest on October 14 and Avengers: Doomsday on December 18 are commitments. The X-Men film's May 5, 2028 slot is something looser, and the reporting says so.
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