Disney says it sold all of its commercial inventory for Super Bowl LXI, signing 58 brands including nine new advertisers; LXI will be telecast on ABC and ESPN (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro says the company is "exploring a free product for consumers" as a way to expand its reach and help funnel Disney+ subscriber growth (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney plans to shift much of its consumer products business from its experiences segment to its entertainment segment, under studios, beginning in October (Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Thomson Reuters reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $1.95B, boosted by legal, corporates, and tax and accounting units; news unit revenue rose 5% to $229M (Kenneth Li/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney reports Q3 entertainment revenue up 6% YoY to $11.3B, streaming subscription revenue up 15% to $4.7B, and streaming ad revenue up 3% to $851M (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects Google's bid to block a class action alleging it overcharged businesses for search ads and abused its dominance (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The NYT added 280K net digital-only subscribers in Q2, below 295.3K est., forecasts Q3 digital-only subscription revenue below est.; NYT drops 8%+ pre-market (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The NYT reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $762.5M, digital-only subscription revenue up 16% to $407.9M, and adjusted operating profit up 16% to $155.3M (Katie Robertson/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $25.2B, below $25.4B est., adjusted EPS of $2.06, above $1.85 est., and streaming revenue up 11% to $5.5B (Jennifer Maas/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Telegraph recently published several pieces acknowledging the severity of climate change, a potential shift in stance under new owner Axel Springer (Michael Savage/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring "thoughtfully curated" fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical Verts feed (Brooks Barnes/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

US celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is recovering in hospital after members of the public reported that he had appeared to self-harm during a TikTok livestream (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Q&A with Richard Rushfield, founder of The Ankler, on starting The Ankler because Hollywood trades were "captured", the value of niche newsletters, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Polymarket expands its live sports offerings, including partnering with the ATP Tour to integrate official tennis match streams into its platform (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Substack's legal support program wins its first federal court case, helping SpyTalk EIC Jeff Stein beat a defamation lawsuit filed by ex-CIA official Keith Bass (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Memo: E. W. Scripps Company is laying off 268 workers across its broadcast TV operation; sources: workers at stations in NY, NE, OK, and TX were among those cut (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Hearst announces an agreement to acquire Disney's 50% interest in A+E Global Media for around $1.2B in cash and expects to close the deal in September (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Paramount reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $6.91B, vs. $6.88B est., streaming revenue up 9% to $2.47B, TV media revenue down 9%, and raises its FY 2026 guidance (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A federal judge sets the antitrust trial over Paramount's acquisition of WBD for March 2-19, 2027; Paramount had sought a November start (Ted Johnson/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

TKO Group lost $30M on UFC Freedom 250, the MMA event streamed on Paramount+ and held on the White House grounds to coincide with Trump's 80th birthday (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Jerry Falade, a grad student whose debut novel initially landed a $2M+ book deal, denies using AI to write it and says such claims are racially motivated (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Axel Springer names Business Insider's interim CEO Christian Baesler as the outlet's permanent CEO; he plans to keep focusing on direct sales and subscriptions (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Netflix sets its longest-ever theatrical window, a 47-day exclusive run for Spanish-language Oscar hopeful La Bola Negra, opening on October 16 (Clayton Davis/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NBC News launches "Data Dive with Steve Kornacki", a cross-platform franchise including all his NBCNews.com content and a subscriber-only weekly newsletter (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

David Ellison says antitrust suits against Paramount's WBD deal imagine a bygone Hollywood and are really about trust in his CNN stewardship, not market share (David Ellison/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.8B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below 778M guidance, and a €545M net income (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley plan to serve as part-time journalists-in-residence at Columbia during the coming academic year (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

MPA: Southeast Asia's premium VOD subscribers rose 15% YoY to 75M in Q2, with viewing hours up ~33%; streaming revenue is projected to grow 14% to $2.9B in 2026 (Natsumi Kawasaki/Nikkei Asia) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink