Advertising Bolsters Fox Q4 Profit In Shaky Era For Marketing Spend

Julia Fox‘s parenting tips are causing a stir online.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor When advertisers take these days to MTV’s long-running “Video Music Awards,” they are hoping viewers will be as interested in what interrupts the action as they are in the trophy-winners themselves. Many of the show’s most intriguing commercials will seek to be as eye-popping as the program’s musical segments and celebrity appearances. Indeed, ad sales executives at Paramount Global, MTV’s corporate parent., say this year’s awards effort contains more in-program appearances by the advertisers’ wares than in any other years of the show, which debuted in 1984. Sponsors are “converting normal commercial time to branded content,” says Dario Spina, the chief marketing officer of Velocity, a Paramount unit that works to create specialized ad executions in the company’s content.

Shia LaBeouf says FKA Twigs is a "saint" who saved his life. The pair dated for around a year after meeting on the set of his 2019 film 'Honey Boy' and Twigs has made a number of attacks against Shia, including that he violently attacked her, knowingly infected her with a sexually transmitted disease and shot stray dogs to get into character for a movie. Speaking on Jon Bernthal’s 'Real Ones' podcast, Shia, 36, did not name FKA Twigs, 34, but said: "I hurt that woman.

helped me navigate my grief following the loss of my husband. My hope for the book was that when my readers face that type of loss, hope and comfort from this story will lift from their heart and help them navigate it a little easier.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGames featuring top college-sports draws like Ohio State and Penn State, and, in 2024, USC and U.C.L.A., will appear on properties owned by Fox, NBCU and Paramount Global under a new and lucrative deal struck with the Big Ten conference, underscoring the continuing importance of live sports to the economics of live TV.The new seven-year deal, which starts in the 2023-2024 season, calls for the three media companies to pay the college conference in excess of $1 billion a year, according to reports. The Big Ten’s previous deals were with Fox and ESPN.The pact will guarantees the conference TV real estate every weekend of college football season, with games slated to appear on“Big Noon Saturday” at noon; CBS’ 3:30 p.m.

Don’t worry! Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly won’t be joining the long list of celebrities who have broken up this year! At least, not this month…

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFox Corp. operates the only one of the four major U.S.

Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox are the latest celebrity couple facing split rumors.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThere’s a new resident making a home in Fox Nation alongside Nancy Grace and the police from “Cops.”Amanda Whittier is a widow trying to make new friends in a small seaside town after the death of her husband. Unlike Grace and the police, Whittier is fictional, a character in a new original movie meant to pluck the heartstrings and continue to broaden the audience on the streaming outlet, which is part of Fox News Media.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorShannon Bream has been picked to take over “Fox News Sunday”, the Fox News politics and public affairs program long anchored by Chris Wallace, making her the first female correspondent to anchor the show in its 26-year history.Her official tenure on the show begins September 11, Fox News said Thursday. Bream will continue as the network’s chief legal correspondent.

K.J. Yossman Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier is set to give a keynote address at Mipcom Cannes in October.Mipcom is set to take place at the Palais des Festivals in the French seaside town from Oct.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTaylor Rooks is getting ready to open another field of study.The Bleacher Report standout and up-and coming Turner Sports broadcaster has signed a new multi-year deal to broadcast across both the digital-sports outlet and TV programs produced by the Warner Bros. Discovery sports division, even as she has secured a role as a features reporter for the new “Thursday Night Football” streamcast being handled by Amazon’s Prime Video.Rooks has been known for her coverage of the NBA.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorEven Tom Cruise can’t fly past the costs of making great content.Despite seeing strong revenue gains from its streaming operations and from the success of the sequel to Cruise’s “Top Gun” in theaters, Paramount Global saw profit drop in its second fiscal quarter as it increased investment in new content while seeing decreases in advertising and affiliate fees at its main TV businesses.The owner of the CBS broadcast network, the Nickelodeon cable channel and the Paramount movie studio said operating income fell by 33% in the period, down to $819 million, compared with more than $1.2 billion in the year-earlier period. Revenue during the quarter increased 19% to nearly $7.8 billion, compared with nearly $6.6 billion a year earlier.

Carson Burton Fox Corp. struck multi-year renewal of its distribution agreement with Verizon on Wednesday, adding ad-supported streamer Tubi and Fox Weather as part of its offerings via Fios TV.Per Verizon and Fox, the extended agreement will see the continued distribution all of Fox’s brands on Fios TV, including Fox News Media, Fox Sports, Fox broadcast network and local Fox owned-and-operated TV stations in markets like New York, Washington, D.C.

Fox has completed a multi-year renewal of its distribution agreement with Verizon for its Fios TV platform.

Sam Fox and her wife Linda Olsen were spotted looking very affectionate with one another while jetting off for their honeymoon.The couple got married in June and have been together since 2016. Arriving at Gatwick airport for their three-week honeymoon, Sam wore a pink tracksuit, purple top and a black bag, while Linda opted for sporty black leggings and a white t-shirt as she pushed the couple's ample luggage in a trolley. Speaking about their relationship on Good Morning Britain, Sam said: "Yeah, I mean, I've always wanted to be married, always.