{"id":5773,"date":"2026-08-07T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/07\/versant-media-group-surges-raises-2026-outlook-on-platform-strength-and-ad-momentum\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:39:15","slug":"versant-media-group-surges-raises-2026-outlook-on-platform-strength-and-ad-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/07\/versant-media-group-surges-raises-2026-outlook-on-platform-strength-and-ad-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Versant Media Group Surges: Raises 2026 Outlook on Platform Strength and Ad Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Versant Media Group, formerly part of Comcast, has significantly boosted its 2026 revenue and adjusted EBITDA outlook, citing strong performance in its platforms segment, including Fandango and GolfNow, and positive advertising momentum. The company reported beating Wall Street expectations for its second quarter, with EPS at $1.49 and revenue at $1.64 billion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108345878-17860145641786014562-47609823586-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1786014563&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y\" alt=\"Versant Media Group\" style=\"width: 300px;float: left;margin: 0 15px 15px 0\">In line with its strategy to diversify revenue, Versant recently acquired golf simulation company Full Swing and is looking to reduce its reliance on the traditional pay TV model. The company also declared its third consecutive quarterly cash dividend.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/18\/versant-raises-2026-outlook-on-strength-of-platforms-segment-and-advertising-momentum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Versant Media Group, formerly part of Comcast, has significantly boosted its 2026 revenue and adjusted EBITDA outlook, citing strong performance in its platforms segment, including Fandango and GolfNow, and positive advertising momentum. The company reported beating Wall Street expectations for its second quarter, with EPS at $1.49 and revenue at $1.64 billion. In line with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108345878-17860145641786014562-47609823586-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1786014563&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_executive-charlie-munger"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108345878-17860145641786014562-47609823586-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1786014563&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}