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Examining Hollywood’s Increasingly Asymmetrical Embrace of Gaming IP

Newly christened Paramount Skydance turned heads in September with a major deal for a Call of Duty film….

Google’s Gemini Smart TVs Are an Advertising Tool, Not an AI Revolution

Earlier this month, manufacturer TCL began rolling out Google TV sets featuring Alphabet’s AI assistant Gemini….

Demon Slayer Cements Sony’s Anime Advantage in Otherwise Tough Year

Sony Pictures has demonstrated how potent its top IP can be, such as when Spider-Man: No Way Home resurrected the pandemic box office at the end…

Music Insights for the Global and Asia Pacific Markets

Download the presentation for an analysis of the current streaming landscape, plus an in-depth case study on the hit movie K-Pop Demon Hunters….

Netflix Series Lead Under Siege? Summer 2025 Begs to Differ

If there’s been a narrative that defines the streaming wars in 2025, it’s the notion that Netflix is seeing its rivals making progress on their bid…

Emmys Ratings a Modest Win Amid a Middling Awards Season

The 77th Emmy Awards just had its most-viewed broadcast in years, definitively reversing course after taking a viewership nosedive during the pandemic….

Tiny Desk, Big Impact: NPR’s Artist Influence, Quantified

Over the 20+ years it’s been in operation, the Tiny Desk Concerts series has provided an intimate performance showcase for artists ranging from T-Pain to Maren…

Why the 2025 Fall Box Office Needs to Carry the Year Again

September is off to a great start at the movies, thanks to Warner Bros.’ The Conjuring: Last Rites, which achieved a franchise-best opening and continued the…

What’s Driving the Animated TV Series Falloff?

Animated series have endured a boom-and-bust cycle in recent years….

Call of Duty Deal Cements Paramount Skydance as Major Cross-Media Player

Less than a month after its christening, Paramount Skydance jumped on the next big milestone for gaming’s role in Hollywood: a Call of Duty feature film….

How Peacock Just Changed the Game for Streaming Sports Bundles

After a long period of sitting on the sidelines, Peacock has finally entered the bundling game….

UFC Rights Deal Could Be the Start of a New, Younger Paramount

With its whopping $7.7 billion deal for the streaming rights to all UFC events in the U.S., newly christened Paramount Skydance is making a big play…

The One Quibi Mistake Hollywood’s First Microdrama Venture Must Avoid

Perhaps one of the unlikeliest success stories to come out of Hollywood in recent years was the surprise hit Terrifier 3, a horror film that cost…

What Will Drive Music Discovery If TikTok Is Banned?

The question of whether TikTok parent company ByteDance will actually sell its golden goose or let the app go dark in its biggest market has weighed…

How Warner Bros. Revitalized Its Film Slate, From ‘Sinners’ to ‘Weapons’

When mob thriller The Alto Knights fizzled out this spring after a poor showing for Bong Joon Ho’s expensive Mickey 17, many were quick to write…

How Netflix’s ‘Leanne’ Broke the Streaming Sitcom Curse

Even as classic multi-camera comedies such as Seinfeld and Friends remain popular on streaming, original hits in this storied format have remained elusive….

Duetti Unlocks Long-Term Value

Duetti uses Luminate data to accurately identify mid-level streaming songs for long-term revenue….

Animation + AI

Learn more about U.S. animated film and TV production trends since the pandemic and the state of generative AI in animation:

The post-peak TV contraction…

ESPN-Fox Bundle Aims to Transform Cable Nets for the Streaming Era

If traditional media companies can’t save the cable bundle, perhaps they can re-create it in the aggregate….

How ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Rewrote the Rules for a Netflix Hit

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is the all-time most-watched Netflix original film worldwide, but reaching No. 1 tells only part of the story about what makes this title…

Now Playing Japan Vol. 4

The Oscars on YouTube? Don’t Bet on It

And the Oscar for least likely to end up with the TV rights to the Academy Awards goes to … YouTube?…

K-Pop Is Back! But It’s Not All About ‘Demon Hunters’

Does the runaway success of KPDH mean K-pop is once again having a moment in pop culture? Well, yes and no….

Legislative Help Does Only So Much for Working Musicians

In the face of a revenue slowdown across both recorded and live music, the industry’s main players want to build new income streams and add more…

Luminate x Billboard Data Summit

Do Long Gaps Between Seasons Hurt or Help Series?

If consumers have benefited from the rise of streaming TV, they’ve also suffered from at least one irritating side effect: ever-lengthening breaks between seasons of their…

Is Hulu’s Next Phase a New Start — or the Beginning of the End?

Disney announced last week that Hulu will be “fully integrated” into the Disney+ app in 2026, folding the storied streamer into the Disney Bundle. But does…

Request a Demo

Request access to demo Music Connect, our subscription-based platform that holds industry-standard and verified music sales, streaming and airplay data….

How TikTok partnered with Luminate to measure TikTok’s impact on Music Discovery, Monetization and Chart Success

Luminate synthesized disparate data sources from both TikTok and Luminate to build out a comprehensive robust analysis that drove the cohesive narrative….

The Real Reason Microsoft Gaming Keeps Shrinking

The October 2023 acquisition of Activision Blizzard cemented Microsoft’s gaming division as the largest video game maker by headcount, overseeing such top IP as Call of…

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