Studios, streamers, music, gaming, and publishing — talent-driven storytelling, awards strategy, capital markets, and AI-era IP exposure.
How Rihanna converted attention into ownership — the five-move PR playbook behind Fenty Beauty, Savage X Fenty, and a billion-dollar valuation built on strategic silence.
Worldwide famous smartphone game Angry Birds is now officially available on Samsung Smart TV’s. There were articles mentioning this huge step forward, but today we have the official confirmation as this tweet says, in Spanish “Hello, TV. Farewell, evil pigs.”
TravelDailyNews launched an Asia-Pacific edition, betting that the world's fastest-growing tourism market is now large enough to sustain dedicated English-language trade coverage. The category infrastructure play.
The US National Press Club has recently awarded post-mortem the 2012 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, honoring three journalists who lost their lives while covering the conflict in Syria.
Tina Turner is the most consequential career-rebuild artist in the history of popular music — and her narrative-ownership playbook is the case study every reputation strategist should study. At 72, retired to Switzerland, what she has built is a communications discipline no artist of comparable global reach has matched.
Diablo III's 2012 launch set a sales record. In 2026 economics, the number looks small. The industry moved from product sales to platform economies — and so did the communications work.
56 years old. Survived the collapse of public broadcasting, the streaming wars, and the AI content explosion. The reason is partnerships — and the discipline behind them.
The canonical Kodak hub: founding, the digital camera Kodak invented and couldn't sell, the 2012 bankruptcy, KodakCoin, the 2020 DFC loan, what the company makes in 2026, the film renaissance, and Kodak as a five-layer communications case study.
Ogilvy Entertainment launched the Branded Entertainment Assessment Model at MIPTV in April 2012. Doug Scott led the rollout. Ogilvy is now a top-3 WPP brand under CEO Devika Bulchandani.
Entertainment and media is the most attention-driven sector in global commerce. A single weekend box office, a streaming subscriber print, a label release, a game launch, or a talent contract can move tens of billions in enterprise value. The category includes Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Amazon MGM, Apple TV+, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, and the privately-held studios; the major music groups Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music; the gaming majors Microsoft Activision, EA, Take-Two, Sony Interactive, Nintendo, Ubisoft; and the talent agencies CAA, WME, UTA, and Gersh. Communications operates as a load-bearing capability — earned media drives talent narratives, awards strategy moves franchise economics, capital markets coverage shapes valuations, and the AI Communications layer is rewriting the IP landscape underneath the entire category.
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