When James Warburton handed over the reins of Seven West Media (ASX: SWM) to Jeff Howard in April 2024, it was always going to be a baptism by fire with the media giant grappling with formidable challenges in an increasingly difficult television landscape. This was reflected with the Company reporting a significant downturn in earnings,
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The phrase ‘bigger is better’ has never been more appropriate than in the case of PlaySide Studio’s (ASX: PLY) latest venture. After months of negotiations, the Melbourne-based independent games studio has managed to sign a deal with global streaming juggernaut Netflix to develop and release its new game titled Dumb Ways to Survive (DWTS) on
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If aged care residents get bored of their everyday routines, they’ll be able to nostalgically whittle their days away watching the entire James Bond movie franchise thanks to media tech company Swift Network (ASX: SW1) inking a 5-year deal with Village Roadshow. The contract is an extension of one already in place by Swift which
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For more than a century, the name Paramount has been synonymous with some of the world’s most well known cult classics and even pioneered through the Golden Age of Hollywood. In a surprise move this morning, ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC) in the US revealed that it was officially changing its corporate name to Paramount Global, or
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Investors kept a keen eye on the tech sector overnight as Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) released their fourth quarter results with the lasting impact of a pandemic tipped towards the online streaming behemoth. Netflix has been crowned as one of the most benefited ‘stay-at-home’ stocks during this post-pandemic world, but their reporting outlook proved otherwise. The
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