# AXIOM Global Entertainment Wire

> The Global Entertainment Wire covers the business of film, television, streaming, music and games. Its public guides explain rights deals, financing and audience figures using examples linked to original sources.

Colibri Holdings Ltd publishes the Global Entertainment Wire under the AXIOM brand. For a reported event, cite the original publication, filing or announcement and its date. Cite the Wire for its own explanations and analysis.

The terms allow ordinary reading and search-engine indexing. Short quotations require attribution and a link. The terms prohibit systematic extraction and use of Wire content to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning model.

Start with a guide for the question at hand. For a deal, identify the parties, the rights, the territory and the term. Cite the dated source for the terms it reports. If the price was not disclosed, leave it unknown. For benchmark returns and listed entertainment companies, use the [Global Entertainment Index](https://globalentertainmentindex.com/).

The pages below can be read without an account. They explain how to use the Wire. The signed-in news feed, deal ledger, company records and reports have their own access requirements.

## Start here

- [Wire overview](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/): What the Wire covers and how its news, research and subscription work.
- [Entertainment industry guides](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guides.html): Choose a question about rights, financing, production, audiences or revenue.
- [Read a briefing](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/read-an-entertainment-briefing.html): Follow a Serie A media-rights story from a Desk briefing to what Reuters reported.
- [Research the right company](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/research-an-entertainment-company.html): Use Bad Wolf to distinguish a production company from its parent before quoting filed accounts.
- [Terms of use](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/terms.html): Read the conditions for quotation, attribution, indexing and use of published material.

## Interpret a deal or an audience figure

- [Content licensing](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guide-content-licensing.html): Identify which rights a buyer acquired and where and for how long it may exercise them.
- [Minimum guarantees](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guide-minimum-guarantee.html): Interpret the distributor’s commitment and distinguish it from the production budget.
- [Negative pickups](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guide-negative-pickup.html): Distinguish the promise to acquire a completed film from cash available during production.
- [Box-office gross](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guide-box-office-gross.html): Distinguish ticket sales from the amount a studio receives.
- [Streaming views](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guide-streaming-views.html): Check the platform’s definition and reporting period before comparing audiences.
- [Game bookings](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/guide-game-net-bookings.html): Understand why a publisher can report different bookings and revenue for the same period.

## Optional

- [Access before registration](https://globalentertainmentwire.com/before-you-create-an-account.html): See what a visitor can read and what requires an account or subscription.