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Hollywood used to know exactly what an entertainment company looked like. It owned a studio lot. Or a television network. Maybe even a record label. Today, an empire can begin with a YouTube channel, a podcast, a gaming platform or a creator with a phone. It can be built in Seoul, Mumbai or San Juan without ever asking — or caring about — Hollywood’s permission. Take Dhar Mann, our Future of Entertainment Award honoree, who posted his first YouTube video eight years ago, was once snubbed hard by a legacy exec on a plane, and has since established a massive creator-first empire with hundreds of millions of views and deals with the NFL, Fox Entertainment and Disney. Or Cristóbal Valenzuela, the Runway CEO who has become one of the entertainment industry’s most vocal AI provocateurs — “AI is eating Hollywood,” he says — and yet also a valued partner to Lionsgate, AMC and Netflix.

Prediction markets have forced the gambling industry to take drastic action. While headlines often focus on Kalshi or PolyMarket users betting on politics or economics, more than 80% of activity still happens in sports markets, and that’s bad news for incumbent sportsbooks. Plus, prediction markets aren't just eating share; they also get preferential tax and legal treatment from the federal government, while traditional sports betting remains under the eye of state gambling commissions. With the deck now stacked against them for a change, sportsbooks and casinos have been offering promotions to lure back wayward gamblers. And we aren’t just talking about the parlay boosts you see Kevin Hart hawking every Sunday. Gambling companies are spending millions of dollars on marketing and promotion, and as you might expect from a mature industry, the results are mixed. Flutter Entertainment PLC (NYSE: FLUT), Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS), and Penn Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) each took a different approach to promotion, and their 2026 stock performance shows which strategy the market is rewarding.

Lee Soo-man, key producer of A2O Entertainment, speaks during “Welcome to Soulite From A2O Soul A2O Lite,” a global debut show for the agency’s new idol groups, at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Monday. Yonhap Three years after a boardroom battle pushed him out of SM Entertainment, the company he founded, K-pop mogul Lee Soo-man unveiled two new idol groups on Monday in his first music project in Korea since his noncompete agreement with HYBE expired in February. His Singapore-headquartered A2O Entertainment introduced 15-member boy group A2O Soul and nine-piece girl group A2O Lite at a joint showcase at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, where both groups performed live for the first time. Their digital singles, “Superstar” and “Neon,” come out at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The launch also uses an unusual format — two groups debuting at once, linked through a shared fictional universe centered on "Soulite," an alien planet. K-pop girl group A2O Lite performs during “Welcome to Soulite From A2O Soul A2O Lite,” a global debut show for A2O Entertainment’s new idol groups, at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Monday.

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GOYANG, Gyeonggi — After three years away from Korea’s entertainment industry, you might have expected Lee Soo-man, one of K-pop’s biggest showmen, to return with a girl group. Or a boy band. He brought both, apparently, along with something unexpected: futuristic video technology developed in collaboration with Samsung Electronics that lets viewers step into an idol performance and watch it from any angle — which the K-pop guru ambitiously describes as potentially the most evolved form of recording. A girl group, a boy band, a ‘Gaussian splatting’At Kintex in Goyang, Gyeonggi, on Monday, the 15-member boy band A2O Soul and nine-member girl group A2O Lite, formed by the SM Entertainment founder’s new agency, A2O Entertainment, made their first appearances before the press at a joint debut showcase titled “Welcome to Soulite From A2O Soul A2O Lite.”

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