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June 4, 2021

AMC Rally Contrasts With Ho-Hum Weekend at the Box Office

“Cruella” costs Disney+ streaming subscribers an extra $30 to view at home -- which may well have made it more lucrative to Disney last weekend than box-office leader “A Quiet Place Part II” was to ViacomCBS. Based on an estimate from Samba TV that 686,000 subscribers bought access to “Cruella,” Ranganathan figures the Disney prequel generated $34.1 million for the parent company, compared with about $28.5 million for “Quiet Place II.”

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June 2, 2021

‘Cruella’ First Weekend On Disney+ Was 39% Behind ‘Mulan’ In Households, Samba TV Data Shows

Disney+’s live-action 101 Dalmatians spinoff Cruella drew 686,000 U.S. households over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend according to Tuesday figures from Samba TV. It’s a number that’s 39% less than the four-day Labor Day traffic for another Disney+ Premier title, Mulan, which pulled in 1.12 million U.S. households over Sept. 4-7, 2020.

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June 1, 2021

‘Friends’ Reunion Drew 2 Million Households Over Weekend

The heavily hyped reunion of the cast of Friends on HBO Max attracted 2 million U.S. households over the holiday weekend, according to figures from Samba TV. The 2 million viewers that watched the Friends special was bigger than the 1.7 million that watched the finale of Mare of Easttown on HBO Max.

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May 25, 2021

With Identifiers Disappearing, It's Time For Advertisers To Ask The Hard Questions

Chris Squire, SVP & Head of Data Products at Samba TV, shares how advertisers can better prepare for the future of targeted advertising as identifiers disappear.

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May 3, 2021

Michael B. Jordan Pic ‘Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse’ Gets Plenty Of Action In U.S. Samba TV Households

In the wake of Amazon Prime Video clicking 175 million customers, the streamer’s acquisition of Skydance/Paramount/New Republic’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse drew 2.3 million U.S. households in its first weekend according to Samba TV.

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April 30, 2021

Connected TV Players Prepare to Aggressively Court Linear Ad Dollars at NewFronts

As linear viewing continues to decline—Q1 2021 saw a 10% quarter-over-quarter decline in the daily average number of TV-viewing U.S. households consuming linear, according to new data from Samba TV—hours spent streaming are accelerating.

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