This time we welcome back a very special guest: Emily Horgan, independent kids media consultant, former Disney executive and Dublin-based. She is author of the Netflix Kids Content Performance Report (now in its fifth edition) and the Kids StreamerSphere newsletter. She’s the only analyst doing this systematically on Netflix engagement data, which gives her a distinctive view.

Everyone loves a talk show don't they? So how about a Deep Dive on them from the beginnings in the US to the innovations in the UK! We have news of mergers, collaborations and legal battles and chat about Auntie Beeb, The Oscars and hardening up the FBI!

You will be thrilled to hear that we have a Deep Dive Double Header this time with Claire taking on podcasts and Maureen all things M&A. Both are gripping and so full of content that we only have time for two podmojis!

We give you our long awaited AAA Gaming Deep Dive this time and it doesn't disappoint: find out all about the origins, the economics and the accuracies of equine thermodynamics! Add to that YouTube "Skinny Bundles", it all going off at Anthropic and new faces at the top of Disney together with two sporting marquee events and a world of auto-romance and you have yourselves a whopper of an Ep.! Enjoy.

There is too much news to fit in a Deep Dive this time what with all the buzz around Luminate, TikTok, Netflix and the BBC partnering with YouTube so we haven't got one. Podmojis feature a "live" prop and we "beam" Maureen in from a swanky hotel in 'Frisco!

In this special curtain raiser for 2026, Maureen and Claire gaze into their respective crystal balls and reveal what they think will be the major media trends, strategies and innovations over the next 12 months on the back of a spectacularly successful set of predictions for 2025.

In our now traditional "what did Maureen and Claire predict for this year?" episode, we go though what our two great prophets said was going to happen in 2025, some 12 months ago. You will be surprised how well they did. Have a listen (or re-listen) to Episode #63 if you want to hear their predictions in full. Then, gather round the wireless in front of the fire and have a listen. We're on in between The King's Speech and something or other from Ant and Dec. Happy Christmas one and all!

A fabulous Deep Dive this time on the "Creative Economy" of which we are, of course, a part! Netflix and WBD goes "beyond juicy" our Spotify Wrapped ages are wildly different and are Vertical Dramas coming of age? Our move into video (about five years after everyone else) is proving very popular for fans of Podmojis for obvious reasons.

Would you believe Spotify is nearly 20 year old? Well, believe it and all the history and strategy Claire and Maureen have to share with us. News covers big deals and big launches and our presenters struggle to gain supremacy in the Podmoji arena with weird socks, the big TikTok Shop and a quiet revolution in Hollywood.

A brilliant deep dive on Netflix this time and the news is all about WBD selling up, the potential of an AI bubble and Disney integrating with Hulu. Despite being half the world away (literally) Claire grabs whatever she can for podmojis to cover AI presenters, Taylor Sheridan and Celebrity Traitors. Will there be an outright winner?