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U.S. media conglomerate owning NBC, Peacock, Universal Pictures and other TV, film and streaming properties.
Walmart, with a $6.4 billion ad business, now lets advertisers use its shopper data to target and measure ads on Warner Bros. Discovery's linear TV networks. It points proof of purchase at TV's brand budgets, starting slowly by Walmart's own account.
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Peacock has ordered a live-action Fast & Furious series planned for 2028, with Vin Diesel executive producing and Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman running it. No cast or story has been announced, so the pitch so far is a producer credit and a release year it shares with the last film.
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YouTube counted 6.5 billion microdrama views in the first half of 2026 and says TV viewing of the format rose more than 90 percent year over year. Its new Shorts Series tool puts the sequencing work on the creator.
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No agreement has closed, the Los Angeles Times reports, because of legal complexity and how talent and unions would react, which puts the gate on production-grade generative video in the clearance department rather than the research lab.
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The left-leaning network starts selling memberships on Sept. 9 at $7.99 a month, offering a 24/7 feed, members-only verticals and access to its anchors.
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