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Hollywood’s Star Power Still
Attracts International Buyers

All in all, an estimated 750 international buyers gathered at this year’s L.A. Screenings — a far cry from the over 1,500 recorded at Screenings held prior to the pandemic, (…)

By |June 9th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Luxury Brands Should
Favor TV Advertising

Summer is here, but for most media executives in the northern hemisphere the memory of spring still lingers on due to the sheer weight of the spring editions of consumer (…)

By |June 9th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Foreign Media Ownership In
The U.S. May Be Possible

From the very start, the United States has always been concerned with national security. Indeed, on May 13, 1798, James Madison, the architect of the First Amendment (i.e., freedom of (…)

By |June 9th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

A Recycled TV Season Rules
In the U.S. Broadcast Schedule

Go back just five years and there were 56 pilots picked for the U.S. TV season, all hoping to become U.S. hits locally, before turning into hits globally, which many (…)

By |May 8th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Mediaverse Explained By
a Legacy Media Executive

Giovanni A. Pedde, author of Mediaverse — The Rise of Decentralized Media, is an experienced media executive with a unique insider’s perspective. After working as an entertainment lawyer in New York (…)

By |May 8th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

NATPE To Revitalize
CEE Content Market

There are some new developments in the works for NATPE Budapest, considered the premier TV trade show for the Central and Eastern European (CEE) market. This yearmost of the screenings (…)

By |May 8th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

The E.U. Media Freedom Act
Could Be Great if Understood

In 1939, Winston Churchill said, “Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The same can be said in 2025 about the European Union’s Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which technically (…)

By |February 17th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

The L.A. Screenings
Phoenix Rises. Event Dates

VideoAge’s symbol for this year’s edition of the L.A. Screenings is the phoenix, the mythological bird that rises from the ashes. The Screenings, now in its 62nd year, is scheduled (…)

By |February 17th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Moving Talent from Social
Media to OTT, Legacy Media

Below is a transcript of a podcast with Bianca Serafini, former head of Content Licensing at Viral Nation, hosted by VideoAge‘s editorial staff, and available on all major digital platforms.

VideoAge: (…)

By |February 13th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Development: Greenlight
Turns Into Redlight

Why is it so difficult to produce a hit these days? It was always hard, of course, but now it seems all but impossible. Years ago, U.S. TV outlets used (…)

By |January 14th, 2025|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments