Future of TV Briefing: 6 charts that sum up the state of streaming subscriptions

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how deceleration in streaming subscription growth and steady subscriber churn have coincided with a rise in people subscribing through aggregators.

  • Streaming’s aggregation era in graphic detail
  • Fox & ESPN vs. Nielsen & YouTube, WBD vs. Midjourney, Amazon’s video ad sales exec exits and more

Streaming’s aggregation era in graphic detail

Irony is the NFL finally being fully available to cord-cutters just as streaming has begun to bundle itself a la traditional TV.

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What to expect at the Digiday Publishing Summit, September 2025 edition

Digital media execs are grappling with all the changes spurred by the growth of AI products and platforms, from shifting search and content strategies to evaluating AI licensing deals for revenue opportunities.

AI will be the major theme at the Digiday Publishing Summit next week, Sept. 15-17, in South Beach, Fla. Beneath the palm trees and by the ocean, top media execs will discuss how publishers are deploying AI agents for ad sales, developing AI-powered paywalls and updating their traffic and content strategies for the zero-click future.

Execs from Bloomberg, The New York Times, People Inc, The Washington Post and many more will take the stage to share their strategies for facing the biggest AI threats and opportunities, and unveil what’s working — and what’s not — to prepare their companies for this next phase in digital media.

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