Latest from Peter Csathy
10 predictions about the media industry in the New Year
10:26 am PST • December 31, 2018
2018 was a year of massive mergers and acquisitions. The #MeToo movement made headlines. So what does the crystal ball predict for 2019?
In reaction to 2017’s sobering and frequently shocking negative societal forces, many digital media companies will take things even further by infusing their offline efforts with social impact, an inspirational…
Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
3:30 pm PDT • August 13, 2017
With a 1-2 gut punch of streaming video on demand services for Disney and ESPN content, Disney looked straight into Netflix’s eyes and pronounced, “Game On!” So, how worried should…
Is Netflix Disney’s next big buy and is Reed Hastings its next CEO?
7:36 pm PST • November 13, 2016
Disney and Netflix are logical dance partners. And, just as we saw with the 50/50 cash and stock financial engineering that enabled AT&T to buy Time Warner, ever-creative Disney undoubtedly…
Whether it’s Disney, Amazon, or Apple, someone’s definitely going to buy Netflix
9:30 am PDT • October 7, 2016
New rumors swirl in our Media 2.0 world about one massive potential tantalizing and game-changing deal – Disney buying behemoth SVOD service Netflix. That makes sense – and may happen…
Remember MCNs? Those quaint multi-channel networks — aggregators of YouTube channels — that generally focused on a specific vertical audience? In the past year or so, something curious happened –…
Last year on TechCrunch I made eight predictions about digital media. This post compares those predictions to the reality that is digital media in 2015.
The Future Of Digital Media In 2015
2:00 pm PST • January 4, 2015
Editor’s Note: Peter Csathy is the chief executive officer and an investor for the business accelerator and development firm Manatt Digital Media.The firm is an investor in DanceOn and advises Whistle Sports. 2014…
