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New York – September 24, 2026 -- Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO) has become the first out-of-home media company integrated into LiveRamp's Cross-Media Intelligence platform, expanding its RADAR data system to plug OOH exposure data directly into the measurement tools marketers use for CTV, social, search, digital video and audio.

The company also announced new integrations with TransUnion's Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) solutions, allowing RADAR exposure and delivery data to be resolved against identity data and folded into portfolio-level and customer-level performance models.

Los Angeles – September 23, 2026 -- Brahma AI has raised $150 million through a preferred share issuance, anchored by a $100 million investment from Multiples Alternate Asset Management, with an additional $100 million in investor interest still pending allocation.

Funding will fuel R&D and a new Silicon Valley presence

The capital will accelerate research and development, expand Brahma AI's global go-to-market operations, and establish a significant presence in Silicon Valley. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. served as sole placement agent on the financing.

Anchor customers span entertainment, sports and healthcare

Brahma AI operates across four verticals: media & entertainment, sports, healthcare and advertising. Global anchor customers include Warner Bros, the NBA and Mayo Clinic, while strategic distribution partners include Google, Hakuhodo and DNEG.

Plano, Texas – September 23, 2026 -- Ten US streaming service profiles were phased out in the second quarter of 2026 as providers rebrand, consolidate content, or shift to alternative distribution models, according to Parks Associates' Streaming Video Tracker.

Paramount Skydance folds BET+ into flagship Paramount+ platform

Paramount Skydance ended BET+ as a standalone service, migrating its content library into Paramount+ under a dedicated BET Hub. The move reflects a broader industry pattern of consolidating niche streaming brands into larger flagship platforms rather than maintaining separate apps.

Los Angeles – September 22, 2026 -- Creator TV, the streaming network owned by Sabio Holdings (TSXV: SBIO) (OTCQB: SABOF), reported its audience grew 4.8 times year-to-date through August 2026, hitting a record 305,000 unique viewers that month.

Audience growth accelerates as average monthly viewership climbs 138% year-over-year

Sabio's App Science analytics platform found Creator TV viewers are 2.5 times more likely to stream sports content than average audiences, a data point the company says explains the crossover between creator-economy fans and sports viewership.

Washington – September 21, 2026 -- The Teamsters Union has endorsed a settlement agreement announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta that clears a path for the pending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Bonta brokers deal covering unions and employers in entertainment merger

Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien credited Attorney General Bonta for coordinating unions, employers, and other stakeholders to reach terms on the merger. The union identified worker protections embedded in the agreement as the central issue for its 1.3 million members across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Tokoname, Japan – September 21, 2026 -- Tencent Esports Competition Solution (ECS) is providing end-to-end technical support across all 11 esports events at the 20th Asian Games, running September 22 to October 2 at Hall D of the Aichi Sky Expo in Japan.

Esports Programme Spans Six Game Categories and Multiple Publishers

The 20th Asian Games features esports' largest programme in the event's history, with 11 events across six game categories requiring coordination across different game engines, version management systems and device formats. ECS was built to give referees, competition operations staff and monitoring teams a consistent technical framework across this fragmented environment, covering pre-match equipment checks, real-time match monitoring and post-match review.

Washington – September 21, 2026 -- Arc XP, the media technology platform built inside The Washington Post, launched Arc XP Compass, a personalization engine that rebuilds news home pages and section fronts around each returning reader while leaving editorial priorities in newsroom hands.

Publishers' own sites just lost their lead as the top news source

Social media and video networks now edge out publishers' own websites and apps as the most common way people get news, used by 54% of respondents across 48 markets versus 51% for news organizations' own sites and apps, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's Digital News Report 2026.

Beijing – September 19, 2026 -- iQIYI's smart TV application, QIYIGuo TV, recorded 141 million monthly active devices in June 2026, leading China's connected-TV market as long-form video consumption shifts decisively to the big screen.

China's smart TV base expands to 302 million active devices

QuestMobile data shows active smart TV devices in China reached 302 million in June 2026, up 12.04 million year-over-year. QIYIGuo TV posted 50.42 million daily active devices that month, edging past the 45.14 million daily active users on iQIYI's mobile app.

Cross-screen data implies 130 million daily viewers on TV

Television is a shared device: Gozen Data estimates each smart TV averages 2.6 viewers, implying iQIYI's big-screen content reaches roughly 130 million individual viewers daily -- nearly three times its mobile daily active user count.

Wilmington, Del. – September 19, 2026 -- Brand Engagement Network Inc. (Nasdaq: BNAI) has filed a Form 8-K/A with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing audited financials for Cataneo GmbH, the Munich-based advertising infrastructure software provider it acquired on June 30, 2026.

Cataneo's operating cash flow more than doubled to $1.85 million in fiscal 2025

The figure rose from $848,000 in fiscal 2024, according to the audited financial statements included in the filing. Operating income also more than doubled year over year, reaching $726,065 in fiscal 2025 versus $345,725 in fiscal 2024, on revenue of $9.6 million.

Atlanta – September 19, 2026 -- Dunamis Woman Enterprise, ranked No. 3,465 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list after posting 82% three-year revenue growth, is launching a streaming television network built around an original docuseries and podcast slate targeting its 125,000-member global audience.

New streaming network centralizes original programming across faith, healing and leadership content

The Dunamis Woman TV Network will house original television and podcast programming spanning healing, faith, identity, relationships and leadership. The initial slate includes four titles: Dunamis Woman Today (premiering October 5), the flagship docuseries House of Healing (October 10), The Professor Ari Podcast and The Dr. Dunamis Dee Podcast (both October 11).