Heidi Chung: Last News

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William Earl Who’s up, who’s down and who is really in deep trouble on Wall Street? Media stocks have been on a wild ride in the first half of 2023. On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Variety Intelligence Platform media analyst Heidi Chung breaks down how Disney, Netflix, Comcast and other leading lights of media and entertainment have performed so far this year. “The best performing sector in the first half of the year was technology. And a lot of that was driven by the interest by investors in the generative AI boom, specifically,” Chung says in conversation with “Strictly Business” hosts Andrew Wallenstein and Cynthia Littleton.

William Earl Variety and Pixel United will host the first-ever Leaders in Gaming & Entertainment Breakfast on Oct. 4. The in-person breakfast, held in Los Angeles, will bring together some of the biggest names in the gaming industry. Marc Merrill, co-founder and president of games for Riot Games, and Shauna Spenley, president of Riot Games Entertainment, will participate in a keynote conversation, moderated by Andrew Wallenstein, president and chief media analyst of Variety Intelligence Platform, about the successful screen crossovers of Riot’s video games, such as their Emmy-winning animated series “Arcane: League of Legends.” Michael Lang, CEO of Pixel United, will be in conversation with Variety Co-Editor-in-Chief Cynthia Littleton about his vision for the mobile games industry, identifying opportunities for the wider entertainment industry to align with the passionate gaming community.

William Earl Taylor Wynne, Digital Lead, Media Investment, Facebook; John Halley, Chief Operating Officer, Advertising Revenue, ViacomCBS; and Jed Dederick, SVP Global Client Development, The Trade Desk, will participate in a panel moderated by Heidi Chung, Media Analyst and Correspondent, Variety Intelligence Platform, on July 29 in the Variety Streaming Room.  Connected TV is the fastest-growing channel across all of advertising, as marketers shift their TV budgets to this media category to reach expanding streaming audiences.