Streaming brands appear to be fighting churn with TV deals, but research suggests they must also focus on deeper loyalty and customer engagement.

Disney+ had the highest share of new subscriptions in Q2.

Media and entertainment devision revenue was down 8%, with ad revenue dropping 7%.

The deal will see the streaming platforms host each other’s shows, starting from 16 July.

The US TV ad market is growing twice as fast as that of the UK, driven by addressable budgets. We need to emulate its initiatives here to drive growth.

ITV set out to explore how young people really watch TV. What we uncovered about TV’s cultural role in the UK was even more surprising.

The Media Leader explores the rationale behind WBD’s move and how the new networks businesses could grow organically, while Disney believes it will make its own unified proposition more competitive.

The broadcaster announced two other commercial innovations at its Showcase event in Manchester: Lead Gen Ads and YouTube Affinities.

Five months after ITV and YouTube inked a new partnership deal to bring full episodes of ITV programmes to the platform, the broadcaster is seeing incremental audience reach without cannabalisation, and appealing to more FELT brands.

Guy Bisson at Ampere Analysis believes the future of partnership and M&A will cross-match global distributors, regional content providers, global content providers and regional distributors. Such deals will help traditional media survive a world where geographic licensing and traditional windowing are being killed by streaming.