Entertainment Rankings

100M+ YouTube Premium subscribers (includes Music), 868.4M active music users Dec 2023, 9%+ market share 2024, driving Google subscription growth

Crossed 3 billion monthly users with Reels driving 50%+ time spent and $32B ad revenue projected

Meta's flagship with 3+ billion monthly users and advertising revenue growth

82.7M paid subscribers (3rd place), $4.08B revenue 2024 (+7.9%), 90M+ songs, HD lossless audio, free audiobook/month, 11.1% market share

SiriusXM, 43.34M customers 2024 (-6% YoY), $2.15B revenue (+2%), parent $8.7B revenue 2024, podcasting +12% growth

82.7M paid subscribers (3rd place), $4.08B revenue 2024 (+7.9%), 90M+ songs, HD lossless audio, free audiobook/month, 11.1% market share

Disney Names James Gorman Board Chairman, CEO Successor Expected Early 2026 Disney announced James P. Gorman, former Morgan Stanley CEO and Executive Chairman, as Board Chairman effective January 2, 2025. Gorman leads the succession planning committee tasked with naming Bob Iger's replacement in early 2026, with internal candidates including Dana Walden, Alan Bergman, Josh D'Amaro, and Jimmy Pitaro.

€2.7M ($3M) seed Jan 2024 (Will Ventures); YC/ElevenLabs/Bartlett/angels; $3.5M total 2 rounds; Founded 2022 London by Nikolaou/Rizk (Palantir)/Serrander (Acast/Spotify/iHeartMedia); YC S22; AI-native video studio; Chat-based creation; Real editor/models/AI agent; Videos/podcasts/audio; Canva of audio; Originally audio-focused; Content creator platform; Conversational creation

$1.65M pre-seed Feb 2024 Upfin/YC/Cuesta Labs/Sandhill/Chambers; Founded 2023 Copenhagen by Brandt/Johnsen/Skelbo; YC S23; 7 employees; NY Times Athletic/Børsen customers; AI retention automation; Retention experiments; Explainable AI; Churn reduction; Subscription media; Digital publishers; Streaming platforms; Subscription apps; Telecoms

$1M revenue 2024; Pioneer Fund/YC seed; Founded 2022 San Francisco by Igel; YC S23; 5 employees; AI video editing; Automatic transcription; Multiple languages; Facial recognition; Metadata extraction; Intelligent search; Rough cut chat; Premiere/DaVinci/Final Cut/Avid integration; Video post-production; Harvard/MIT Prod Program 2022

$2.7M revenue 2024; $500K seed 2023 (Amino/Github/Lombardstreet/M12/8 investors); Founded 2022 San Francisco by Gopal/Hsu/Lee; YC W23; 18 employees; AI content studio; Trailers/ads/launch films; AI storyboarding; Script to storyboard; Next-gen software; Professional content creation; Filmmaking tools; Production visualization

Seed Feb 2025 Unpopular Ventures/Simma Capital; Founded 2023 by Faraday/Harvey/Lykouropoulos; YC S23; 7 employees; All-in-one AI video production; Complete video creation; Scripts/visuals/voiceover/effects; Content creators; Business video; Streamlined workflows; AI-powered production; Unified tool

$5M revenue 2024; $125K seed 2023; Founded 2021 San Francisco by M. Chopra/S. Chopra; YC batch; 2 employees; AI animated video platform; Prompt-to-video generation; Animation software; AI footage iteration; Creative tool; Anyone can animate; Few prompts start; Efficient minimal team

$2.5M+ funding YC/Neil Patrick Harris/Gaingels + $0.12M Nov 2024 (120 investors/$12M valuation); 1,000+ signups; 48% MoM adoption since Feb 2024; 50+ productions Netflix/Disney/Amazon/Paramount; $28K cash $12K burn; $250B market; $1M ARR goal; Half productions 2025 target; YC W22

Q3 FY2025: Revenue $3.93B (+1% YoY) | Operating Income down 7% due to higher programming costs | ESPN+ ARPU: $6.14/month (up from $5.34) | Sports rights expansion: NBA, College Football Playoff | Global sports media leader

Q1 2025: 41M paid subs (up from 36M end 2024) | 2024 Revenue: $4.9B (up from $3.4B) | EBITDA Loss 2024: $1.79B (improved from $2.75B) | Q1 2025 Loss: $215M (improved from $639M) | NBA/WNBA rights starting 2025

FY2024 Revenue: $44.374B | Subscribers: 240M+ globally | US: 128.6M (2025) | Ad Revenue: $806M projected 2025 | Market Share: 22% (top streaming platform) | Ad-supported tier: 130M+ monthly viewers US

End 2024: 77.5M global subs | 2024 Revenue: $5.9B (+33%) | Advertising Revenue: $2.1B (+18%) | Q1 2025: 79M subs | Achieving full profitability 2025 | Second most-watched for original series hours

April 2025 annual revenue: $3.8M; 1M+ creators, $150M+ total donations; 13 employees (Nov 2024); business model: 100% donations to creators, revenue from platform fees and Ko-fi Gold subscription

Acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38B (September 2025); $417M revenue 2024 (up from $405M 2023); 287M registered users (21% YoY growth); focus on enterprise growth and AI-powered video creation

$6M seed (YC/Matrix/Chainsmokers/Shear/Ferdowsi); Founded 2023; 1M+ videos generated; Lemon Slice Live; Real-time audio-video AI; Talking characters; Single photo; YC W24; Formerly Infinity AI

2024 Subscribers: 45M | Part of Apple Services: $27.4B quarterly revenue (+13%) | Losing $1B/year on streaming | Content spend: ~$5B reduced to $4.5B annually | Premium original content focus

2024 Revenue: $12B (up from $11.2B) | Subscribers: 53.6M (up from 49.7M) | Q1 FY25: Combined Disney+/Hulu operating income $293M | Disney streaming path to $1B annual operating income FY2025

End 2024: 116.9M global subs | Q1 2025: 122.3M subs (+5.3M) | Streaming Revenue Q1 2025: $2.7B (+8%) | DTC Profit 2024: $677M | Path to 150M subs by end 2026 | Warner Bros Discovery property

2024 Revenue: $23B (+42.8% YoY) | Users: 1.6B (+6.1%) | Ad Revenue: $23.6B in 2024, projected $33.1B in 2025 (+40.5%) | TikTok Shop: $1B+ monthly US sales | 77% revenue from advertising

$5.5M seed (GV/Nat Friedman/Daniel Gross); Founded 2023; Millions revenue; Top YC W24; wav2lip 8.7K+ stars; lipsync-2; Real-time HD; Visual dubbing API; Zero-shot lipsyncing; YC W24

Merged with Connatix (October 2024) creating combined $200M ARR entity; 1B+ users globally; 30B+ monthly video plays; 2024: focus on publisher monetization and streaming technology

$154M total funding; $84M Jul 2025 (General Catalyst, CAA, Comcast Ventures); $70M seed Nov 2024 (General Catalyst, Khosla); $53M May 2025; Licensed AI models; YC W21 (Winter 2021)

Sept 2025: 295,083 creators with paying members, 10M+ monthly supporters; 2024 revenue estimates: $126M-$228M (varies by source); creator payouts $700M+ 2024 (+20% from 2023)

2024 revenue: $23.8M (+11% from $21.4M 2023); 27,000 customers; 10% transaction fee model (no monthly subscription); valuation $100M (March 2021 crowdfunding)

$39.3B total revenue 2024; $36.1B advertising (14.6% growth); 2.53B monthly users Jan 2025; 2B Shorts users; 70B+ daily views; 13.7% Google revenue

IPO March 2024 ($38B market cap Nov 2024); Steve Huffman/Alexis Ohanian/Aaron Swartz founders; +75% stock growth; Profitable; YC S05

$500K Seed 2024 (YC); Hayden Housen (NeurIPS/Ada)/Ryanx Tremblay (Cornell/HarmonAI) founders; Melodia model; YC W24

$500K YC Seed Jan 2025; Adish Jain/Kyle Wade (ex-Tesla) founders; Agentic editing; SaaStr 2025 featured; YC W25

YC batch; Universal text-to-sound AI; Film/TV/game audio; Musician/sound designer focus; Audio generation; YC

YC batch; SAAS for creator communities; Paid/scalable communities; Creator monetization; Bangalore-based; YC

YC W23; 700K+ users; Free storyboarding software; Filmmaker tools; Easy-to-use interface; YC Winter 2023

YC batch; Multimodal AI + 3D for TV/games/movies; On-the-fly content creation; Interactive sharing; YC

YC batch; AI video creation tool; TV/movie production; Multimodal AI; Content democratization; YC