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Garth Bray

Tue, 06 Jan 2026

"Pictures, or it didn’t happen" is the mantra of an age obsessed with Instagram and TikTok, but as the Netflix v Paramount battle to take over Warner Bros Discovery has been showing, pictures can matter as much as the numbers in business.Viewing data from Nielsen shows YouTube rules with 12.9% of screentime in the US, ahead of Disney’s 11.4%, while Paramount with 8.2% and Netflix with 8% scrap for fifth place.Buried in that data, some were streaming the journalism of BusinessDesk on display in a series we called the blockb...

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