WarnerMedia Kids & Family has announced multiple new acquisitions that will bring some of the most popular digital preschool content to Cartoonito on HBO Max and Cartoon Network effective immediately. The new preschool block has picked up popular shows from Moonbug Entertainment, including several offerings from Blippi, CoComelon—the #1 most-watched brand on YouTube, Lellobee City […]

WarnerMedia Kids & Family is expanding its partnership with children’s book author, illustrator and playwright Mo Willems ahead of a slate of originals for HBO Max and Cartoon Network. HBO Max has extended its licensing rights to the Emmy-nominated Mo Willems and The Storytime All-Stars Present: Don’t Let the Pigeon Do Storytime! and Mo Willems […]

WarnerMedia has made three more senior content hires in Asia to bolster its original productions teams in advance of the launch of HBO Max in the region. In the Singapore-based team, Mark Francis has been appointed Group Lead of Production & Development (Scripted and Unscripted); and Wee Shi Ming has been named Lead of Entertainment […]

AT&T has reported its Q4 and full-year financials revealing that its WarnerMedia entertainment unit added a combined 13.1 million subscribers across HBO and HBO Max in 2021. But it was at a cost, record subscribers meant record revenue but also record spending on content and marketing, meaning earnings were lower. “We surpassed our high-end guidance […]

ZEASN, a provider of OTT and smart TV solutions, has announced that streaming service Claro video is now made available on multiple ZEASN-supported smart TV brands, including AOC, Whale OS powered connected televisions. Through this collaboration, Claro video will increase its presence on TV screens in the Latin American market, at the same time bringing […]

Entertainment on Demand, the solution measuring streaming service subscription levels, has revealed subscriber behaviours in the US for the fourth quarter of 2021. The proportion of US households who have a video subscription has risen to 85 per cent (up 2 per cent points QoQ, and up 2 per cent points YoY), after two consecutive […]

Beatriz Pineda, a digital media supply chain expert with HBO and Sony, will help accelerate the development and availability of tools that objectively define video quality as Senior Director, Product Strategy at SSIMWAVE. Pineda will bring market insights honed during nearly two decades in the production, distribution and equipment sectors to her new role, which […]

Streaming service HBO Max was by far the SVoD platform with the highest growth in Spain in Q1 2021 with a customer share of 28.6 per cent, up 7 per cent on the previous quarter, according to consultancy firm GECA. Despite the increase in subscribers, HBO Max is still behind Movistar Plus, with 29.1 per […]