Dashboard 7-21-23
Social Media Hits
Just some dynamite images from the @Immortal_AMC activation at @Comic_Con. pic.twitter.com/TzqeaOpC95
— Jim Maiella (@jimmaiella) July 20, 2023
Sneak peek at the Adult Swim Festival grounds #SDCC pic.twitter.com/AoDOduLQPA
— IGN (@IGN) July 20, 2023
Happy #Barbenheimer day! pic.twitter.com/Ejo7BuJtLj
— Bryant Park (@bryantparknyc) July 21, 2023
Research
(Source: NPAW)
➢ Services with streaming rights to Wimbledon 2023 experienced a 1.5x surge in the number of plays and overall playtime from 2022.
➢ At the same time, the count of unique subscribers to those services grew 26% YOY.
➢ The Men’s Singles final drew in the most attention with nearly triple the quantity of plays and unique users compared to the daily average throughout the remainder of the championship.
Up Ahead
July 30-August 2: The Independent Show 2023; Minneapolis, MN
August 7-8: C2HRCon, Brooklyn
August 20-23: Fiber Connect 2023; Orlando
Sept. 8: 2023 Cablefax Most Powerful Women Nomination Deadline
Sept 18-19: The WICT Network Leadership Conference; NYC
Sept 19-20: NAMIC 37th Annual Conference; NYC
Quotable
“When putting together these guidelines, we noted that historically the courts have recognized a few ways in which vertical mergers can be lessening competition, including by giving a company key control over critical inputs that its rivals depend upon, but that’s just one way. There are a whole set of other ways that these types of mergers can risk lessening competition and the 13 guidelines are intended to really lay that all out very clearly… Another change that we recently proposed was update the information that merging parties have to provide us when they are proposing a merger and the goal there is to make sure that our agency is able to conduct these investigations much more efficiently and much more effectively, so we don’t have to waste time kind of going back and forth getting information that the parties already have on day one and that we need in order to be able to make our assessment…”
– FTC Chair Lina Khan on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” speaking to the agency’s draft merger guidelines
