In the news this past week: Media Disney/Marvel's Black Panther was finally toppled last week as the #1 movie in the US (by Pacific Rim: Uprising) after an extraordinary five week run, but it has nonetheless

The year hasn't quite ended yet but Walt Disney has already set a new record for global box office, having topped a combined total of $7bn earlier this week. That surpasses previous record-holder Universal

consolidated ad tech and digital platform services for Walt Disney Company, including the soon-to-be-added Fox properties and the group's new streaming platforms. All global digital video and ad serving

like Universal's Jurassic World and Furious 7 and Disney's Avengers Age of Ultron and Star Wars. Jurassic was the world's biggest movie with global takings of $1.7bn, followed by Furious 7 ($1.5bn) and

Time Warner agreed to line up with Disney, Fox and Comcast as joint owner of US streaming media service Hulu. It has acquired a 10% stake in the business for $583m, and will offer its TNT, TBS, CNN and

Walt Disney Pictures SE Asia media n/s Dentsu Aegis Valspar US media 50m Spark (Starcom) Havas Media MGM Resorts US media 35m PHD Ubisoft Global media n/s Mindshare,

21st Century Fox has already agreed to sell to Walt Disney. Comcast's $65bn cash offer is significantly more attractive to most public shareholders (though not necessarily to the Murdoch family) than

boosted Disney's revenues for the year ended Sept to a new high of $69.6bn. Revenues for the final quarter alone jumped by more than a third overall, and by more than 50% in the studio entertainment division.

Adbrands Daily Update 23rd Mar 2020: Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Google's YouTube and Facebook have all agreed to downgrade streaming quality by at least 25% throughout Europe to reduce the pressure on broadband

10th Feb 2021: Walt Disney appointed Usama Al-Qassab to the new role of VP marketing for EMEA direct to consumer operations. His main brief is for the Disney+ streaming service but also covers DTC marketing