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Warner Music Group wants both sides of the song.
A recording is only half the music business. Warner’s latest move brings the other half closer - and reveals how a major label plans to stay useful when anyone can press upload.
Operative makes the ad sale add up
Selling an ad is a promise. Operative builds the software that carries that promise through TV, streaming, delivery and the invoice.
Iyuno makes the world laugh in another language
A subtitle is a tiny piece of text with a very large job. Iyuno built a global business around getting it right, then bought the studios and built the software to make stories travel.
Dreams put television on its feet
A free app, an upright screen, and a wager that choosing what to watch had become too much work. Dreams brought channel surfing to the phone - with Bob Ross, live news, and a surprisingly complicated backstage.
Above Average found the funny. Then it found the buyer.
A closet interview helped launch Broadway Video’s comedy venture. Today, its work travels from Broadway stages to streaming screens - and, in 2026, Pete Davidson’s garage.
ZOO Digital and the 780,000 details behind your next binge
A film can travel the world only after its voices, subtitles and files survive the journey. ZOO Digital turns that overlooked work into a business - and its own recent reset shows how much depends on the studios holding the purse strings.
360 Solutions and the art of getting 4 million files out the door
A movie gets one release date and thousands of chances to miss it. Two former studio insiders built 360 Solutions around the unglamorous work of making global artwork arrive ready.
Arenas Group Saw Hollywood’s Audience Before Hollywood Did
Santiago Pozo started with $6,000 and a conviction that U.S. Hispanic moviegoers deserved a proper invitation. Arenas turned that idea into decades of entertainment campaigns, then followed the audience into streaming.
Astro Wants to Make the TV Bundle Worth Paying For Again
Malaysia’s satellite-TV veteran is cutting the price of entry, inviting streaming rivals onto its boxes and betting on stories made at home. The audience is there. Rebuilding the business is harder.
The Prison-Doc Shop That Made 40 Years of Payroll Selling Stories Nobody Else Would Touch
For four decades, Rasha and Stephanie Drachkovitch have run toward the subjects most producers avoid - prisons, night shifts, grief - and turned them into shows that networks keep ordering.
Sonos Wired the Whole House for Sound - Then Shipped the App That Nearly Unplugged It
The company that made multi-room music feel effortless spent 2024 proving how quickly one software update can undo twenty years of goodwill - and 2025 trying to earn it back.
The Quiet Roll-Up Wiring Brazil's Interior, One Bought-Out ISP at a Time
A decade of acquisitions turned a scattered handful of small-town providers into Brazil's second-largest ISP in Sao Paulo state. Here is how Alares built a fiber network out of everyone else's leftovers.
The 366-Foot Screen That Ate Las Vegas
One company runs the most expensive room ever built in Las Vegas and the cable channel that carries the Knicks. Here is how Sphere Entertainment turned a glowing orb into a business.
The Mountain Changed Hands
One of the oldest logos in film now belongs to a tech scion with a streaming problem to solve and an $80-billion appetite. Here is how the studio behind Top Gun, SpongeBob and 60 Minutes plans to stay standing.
Spectrum’s Big Bet: Make the Cable Bundle Useful Again
The cable bundle did not disappear. Spectrum is rebuilding it around broadband, WiFi, mobile and streaming - and betting that one connected household is worth more than four separate subscriptions.
The Company Betting That the Next Great Streaming War Will Be Fought in Spanish
Univision and Televisa spent decades as rivals across the same language. In 2022 they merged into one $4.8-billion company - and bet the whole thing on a streaming app named ViX.
The Free Streamer That Went and Got 100 Million People
No password, no monthly bill, no free-trial trap. Tubi bet that a giant, gloriously weird library and a few well-placed ads could out-hustle the subscription wars - and 100 million people showed up.
The $7 Billion Cable Empire Nobody Wanted, Now Trading Under Its Own Name
Comcast handed its cable networks a name, a ticker and a mandate to survive the streaming era. What Versant does with CNBC, MS NOW and $7 billion in revenue is now its own problem to solve.
AMC Global Media
The company that gave us Mad Men and Breaking Bad dropped "Networks" from its name in 2026. The bet behind the rebrand: stop being something for everyone, and start being everything to someone.
The E.W. Scripps Company
A newspaper company born in 1878 now makes its wager on the most modern old technology in America: free television. With local news, ION and a growing sports slate, Scripps is trying to make reach itself the product.
Comcast
Comcast built a $123.7 billion business by owning more of the trip from socket to screen than almost anyone else. Now it is pulling that empire apart to see whether focus can do what scale no longer does.
Fox Corporation
Everyone else sold their libraries and chased prestige drama. The Murdochs kept the loud, live stuff - news and football - and it is quietly minting money.
Jio Platforms
How a telecom upstart turned cheap data into an operating system for daily life in India - and why the world's biggest investors bought in.
Amazon
From a garage bookstore in 1994 to a $200 billion quarter: how Amazon turned customer obsession into the operating system of modern commerce, computing, and now AI.
Telfaz11
Telfaz11 is a Riyadh-based creative media studio that pioneered Arabic online video in the early 2010s and has since grown into one of Saudi Arabia's leading film and content producers. Founded in 2011 by Alaa Fadan, Ali Al Kalthami and Ibraheem Alkhairallah, it began as a YouTube-first network aimed at Saudi youth and evolved into feature films, streaming originals and branded content. Its 2022 wrestling comedy 'Sattar' became the highest-grossing Saudi film ever, and the studio holds a multi-picture deal with Netflix.
Yango
Yango is a Dubai-headquartered technology company that started as a ride-hailing brand from the Yandex Taxi team in 2018 and has grown into a global everyday-services ecosystem. Operating in more than 30 countries across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Yango bundles mobility, food and grocery delivery, mapping, fintech, advertising, entertainment, and AI into locally adapted apps. Rather than owning fleets, it partners with local taxi companies and businesses, using a 'hyperlocal' playbook to tailor each product to regional cultures, currencies, and infrastructure.
Mass Appeal
Mass Appeal is a New York-based media and content company that calls itself the elevated voice of hip-hop. Founded as a graffiti fanzine in 1996 and revived in 2013 by rapper Nas, CEO Peter Bittenbender and the late journalist-filmmaker Sacha Jenkins, it spans a record label, film and TV production, digital series, a creative agency and direct-to-consumer commerce. The company is best known for the Hip Hop 50 initiative marking the genre's 50th anniversary, Grammy- and award-winning documentaries, and a music catalog built around legacy artists and their new work.
Boomy
Boomy is a Berkeley-based generative-music company whose web app lets anyone create original songs with AI in about 30 seconds - pick a style, hit generate, tweak the result, and optionally release it to Spotify, Apple Music and 40+ platforms while collecting royalties. Founded in 2018 by Alex Mitchell and Matthew Cohen Santorelli, Boomy says its users have created more than 20 million tracks, making it one of the most-used AI music tools and a lightning rod in the debate over what AI-made music means for streaming.
Holotech Studios, Inc.
Holotech Studios, Inc. is a Romanian-American software company behind FaceRig and its successor Animaze - real-time avatar and face-tracking tools that let anyone livestream, video-chat, and create content as a 2D or 3D character. Founded in 2013 by a group of veteran game developers, the company turned an Indiegogo passion project into software used by millions of streamers, VTubers, and creators worldwide.
Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses is one of the oldest and most storied esports organizations in North America. Founded in 1999 as a Quake clan, EG built a legacy across Dota 2, StarCraft, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, and Valorant, most famously winning Dota 2's The International 2015 for a then-record payout and Valorant Champions 2023. Now headquartered in Seattle and owned by Chicago investment firm PEAK6, the company runs competitive teams, a content-creator roster, youth and community programs, and a direct-to-consumer merchandise line.