Digital content veteran Jacob Selzer has joined Creative Artists Agency as an agent in its Creators division. Selzer, a former NBCUniversal exec who most recently was executive vp of content strategy at digital brand Almost Friday Media, joins the Hollywood major talent agency to represent digital creators and podcasters. He will also help drive digital strategies for CAA clients across...

Michael Manns Heat 2 and the next installment to Sony Pictures Jumanji headline the first round of movie subsidies to Hollywood after Californias historic expansion of the entertainment tax credit program, a bid to revitalize production in the state. In total, 52 films will get $334 million in incentives for shooting in California, the film commission announced on Tuesday. Theyre...

The NBA and its three media partners are about to level up the sports advertising business. According to interviews with key players on both the buy side and sell side, the NBAs new media rights deal has brought with it a significant increase in advertiser interest, with brands (both returning and new) desperately seeking to capture more attention in a...

No, Tom Brady isnt doing another Netflix roast. But he will be roasting up some chicken in his new Ninja CRISPi PRO Countertop Glass Air Fryer. And he wants fans to roast him in the comments for the marketing stunt, a meta take on what has become the strategy of the moment for rolling out a campaign (see LeBron James...

Sounds like Warner Bros. Discovery may be for sale after all. Amid swirling reports of bidding interest by Paramount Global, the WBD board of directors says is it has initiated a review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value. The board said it has received unsolicited interest from multiple parties. Strategic options include continuing with the previously announced split and...

The start of the college football season in late August gave a bit of life to broadcast networks after a summer of declining viewing. The pros packed a much bigger punch in September. The first few weeks of the NFL season brought a big resurgence in broadcasters share of all TV use in the United States, according to Nielsens Gauge...

In a move that shows how the Berlusconi family is continuing its expansion across the European television market, German commercial TV group ProSiebenSat.1 Media appointed Marco Giordani its new CEO, succeeding Bert Habets. Giordani joins from MFE-MediaForEurope, where he has served as chief financial officer since 2000. His appointment comes amid ongoing efforts by MFE, controlled by the family of...

Workers at Washington D.C.s major concert venues are working to unionize. Production staff as well as employees in food services, box office and those staffing the door at D.C.s9:30 Club, a well-known venue that helped launched the careers of bands including Nirvana and R.E.M, as well as at The Anthem, one of the larger East Coast venues with a capacity...

The American Film Market and Cannes March du Film are joining forces on a new Innovation Hub and series of AI-focused sessions set to debut at AFM 2025, giving a more tech focus to the international indie TV market that runs Nov. 11-16 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The collaboration builds on the Marchs Cannes Next platform,...

Meadowlark Media has found its next CEO, and it is a familiar face to the sports-centric media company, which was founded by former ESPN personality Dan Le Batard and former ESPN president John Skipper. The company says that Bimal Kapadia will become its new CEO, succeeding Skipper, who exited the company earlier this year. Kapadia had been Meadowlarks COO since...

Sure, there was some recent chatter about whether Netflix would consider a competing for Warner Bros. Discovery, which is being pursued by David Ellisons Paramount. But during its October 21 earnings results, the streamer is likely to keep the spotlight on Kpop Demon Hunters, the Sony animated film that has become the services most successful movie ever and which Wall...

Almost exactly six years after it launched, Apple TV is at an inflection point. In the span of a week, the streaming service rebranded itself, struck its first standalone bundle deal with a competitor, and inked arguably its most significant sports rights deal yet. Taken together, it suggests that the tech giant is gearing up to drive (pun intended) new...

The results of the latest Teamsters Local 399 elections are in, and Lindsay Dougherty has been re-elected to the unions top staff post. Dougherty won nearly 71 percent of the vote and her political slate swept the election in a contest that concluded on Friday. A little over 1,600 ballots were cast, according to results the union posted to Instagram....