Five years ago this week… Disney was suffering from buyer’s remorse, shunting its multi-channel network (MCN) Maker Studios off to its in-house branded content division, Disney Co/Op to assist with the made-up job of “influencer marketing”. Following an impulsive spending spree in the early 2010s, legacy media firms were coming to terms with the fact that MCNs and their content creators were not as lucrative as first hoped. Disney had paid over $500 million for Maker Studios, but its interest in the MCN quickly waned, with the number of the creators on the roster slimmed down from 60,000 at the time of purchase, to just 300. — Warner Bros. Discovery will form a 50:50 joint venture with British Telecom, whereby…