David Ellison

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Bloomberg Talks · David Ellison Talks Media Deal Making at Bloomberg Screentime · 9 Oct 2025 podcast

Given this moment in time that we exist in, great art and great technology need to work hand in hand together to effectuate the transition the overall business is in.

So you have to do two things.

One, let's just talk about the asset that we acquired and we inherited.

Paramount, as it exists today, operates three streaming platforms.

three separate tech stacks on two different clouds which is both inefficient and wildly expensive so if you actually said i'm gonna if i had unlimited resources this is not how you and for those who don't follow the three services are paramount plus pluto tv and bt plus correct so we're in the process right now of basically consolidating all of those onto a single onto a single stack which will both

significantly improve the operational capabilities of the product.

And we're doing a lot to basically overhaul every single aspect of the stack.

But also, the more data that you obviously get in there, which is the more users, the better you're going to be able to recommend content.

So we are definitely overhauling basically the product right now.

But in addition to that, to me, technology is really in service of the content, not the other way around.

And we're going to make significantly more shows at Paramount+.

We are investing in sports rights.

When you look at the acquisition of the UFC, that is the largest sport that is basically not shared between multiple platforms.

And they have 100 million fans.

They've grown 25% from 2019 to date.

They grew at that level sitting behind a double paywall.

So we think when you eliminate that double paywall, it's going to open it up and make it much more accessible.

Literally one pay-per-view fight is what a Paramount Plus subscription is.

And then basically those 100 million fans are going to be able to get access to everything they love.

And in addition to that, when you look at the overall sports strategy, which cannot be more important to us,

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