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"society's can be ahead of politics" "the bitterest of enemies can become the best of friends" "the power of soft power"

Global Connects analysis of "Asia's Answer to Netflix" picked up by LinkedIn News Asia. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activ...

Advanced Television reports on the size of the anime market worldwide. https://advanced-television.com/2024/12/19/report-anime-claims-6-o...

Parrot Analytics, and the Association of Japanese Animations report that anime is a $20B business worldwide, between streaming and...

Famed visualist and filmmaker Macoto Tezka will join Global Connects Media's Douglas Montgomery to discuss the Japanese Anime market size...

MIRRORLIAR FILMS and the Global Stage Hollywood Film Festival will collaborate to implement the following initiatives to nurture...

How niche streaming platforms can capture Gen Z with with foreign content. https://www.streamtvinsider.com/video/anime-and-beyond-how-nic...

Speaking at StartUp:Con 2024 in Seoul on how global companies collaborate with AI start-ups. Dates are Sept 26 & 27.

Revolutionizing retail advertising with AI panel at Cynopsis Big TV Summit. https://www.cynopsis.com/events/big-tv-summit-2024/?utm_sourc...

Bundles are increasing to create stickier consumers, this debate has 4 different bundles.

Global Connects Media to particpate in live debate on the best bundle of media for consumers. https://marionranchet.substack.com/p/show-m...

The purchase gives Sony its own distribution arm in the US for content such as anime. GCM post picked up by LinkedIn News....

The Current publishes "5 minutes with Doug Montgomery" on the state of Entertainment, Retail and the hottest thing in advertisinooog,...

Japan is starting to reconcile its own issues regarding Indigenous people. The Ainu people have called Hokkaido – home for thousands of...

Big players such as Walmart and Amazon are investing often and heavily in this space. Article published with Korea Creative Content...

Global Connects Media moderates two panels "From QR code to cart" and "Catch a Global Rising Star" at NAB 2024. The first discussed the...

Global Connects gave its opinions on the global entertainment industry and Japan's place in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXyj6_V5hU

Music video network Vevo has teamed up with video analysis company KERV Interactive to power shoppable ad formats for the streamer on...

The "new normal" in Entertainment increasingly includes non-English language content.

Find out what is new and exciting at the "Big TV Summit" in NYC this September. https://www.cynopsis.com/events/big-tv-summit-2024/

Global Connects CEO to lead shoppable media panel at NAB 2024

Walmart is not new to the retail media business but has to date been unable to capitalize on its prominence. Vizio offers it a new entry...

Ask not what Walmart can do for you, but what you can do for Walmart

Global Connects Media to Moderate Panel at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas https://nab24.mapyourshow.com/8_0/s...

WSJ Reports Walmart considering purchasing Vizio https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-in-talks-to-buy-vizio-wsj-5937420/

This year is set to be both a testing ground and a battleground for shoppable TV ads, which could position connected TV (CTV) as a...

Exposure is the key says Montgomery, Walmart investing heavily https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertising/consumers-show-interest-shoppa...

Global Connects Media speaks to TV of Tomorrow's Rick Howe about the future of Shoppable Video, anime and Shohei Ohtani.

Streaming services and advertisers experimented with new formats on connected TVs in 2023. https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertising/in...

Global Connects was invited to be the keynote speaker at Next Media Korea 2023, sponsored by Korean Ministry of Science and Information...

Interview with Hojin Fukunaga of the Mainichi Daily about the state of Japanese Content in the United States. Mentioned is Parrot...

Global Connects CEO - Douglas Montgomery - to participate as judget in "From Japan to the World - Ninja Pitch" this Nov 25, 2023 in Kyoto...

Global Stage Hollywood presents the world premiere of Ep 2, "Paradox Live - THE ANIMATION" on Saturday, Oct 7th, 2023.

Actor Satoshi Tsumabuki in attendance for opening night at the TCL Chinese Theatre.

Hollywood's weird summer brings blockbusters plus angst. The winner of the strike is likely not to be either combatant, but YouTube or...

Short films are booming in 2023, at The Wrap 2023 Short List Film Festival, a wide variety of shorts were shown, from all over the world....

The increase in foreign content popularity sees no signs of abating, conversely the writer's strike does not help American made content.

Global Connects Media CEO participated in jury at the 25th edition of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia.

In a battle for Gen Z's retail dollars, Walmart and Amazon keep making bets in retail-tainment, who will win? Time will tell.

Global Connects Media CEO - Douglas Montgomery - to participate as a judge in the 25th anniversary edition of "Short Shorts Film Festival...

Amazon Prime and Walmart+ consumers speak out in latest research.

Video streaming and entertainment in general becoming the hook to catch and keep new customers.

Digital interactivity can take many shapes in CTV advertising. Watch this space for more announcements in the AdTech, MarTech, and...

The promise of buying a product straight from your television, or any other video screen, has been around since before the modern...