Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A new trade group — the Streaming Innovation Alliance — brings together Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros.
Discovery, Paramount and other players to promote their interests to politicians and government entities. It marks the first time competing streaming-video providers have banded together in a unified lobbying front.
The launch members of the Streaming Innovation Alliance (website at this link) are: AfroLandTV, America Nu Network, BET+, Discovery+, For Us By Us Network, Max, the Motion Picture Association, MotorTrend+, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, PlutoTV, Telemundo, TelevisaUnivision and Vix, Vault and the Walt Disney Co.
The SIA will “advocate for federal and state policies that build on the strong, competitive, and pro-consumer market for streaming video,” according to the group.
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