With Disney’s blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. MCNs are “now top-of-mind for all the major studios,” said Peter Csathy, CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures. “There will certainly be a flurry of M&A activity in the next 12-18 months.”... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PM on March 24, 2014