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(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.)  Today’s article is free for all to read.) What’s my goal with this newsletter? I’d argue that it’s this:  To turn down the volume. Sometimes, a trend gets hyped to,

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) As I wrote last Friday, it’s been about four months since my last “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals” update, so I had to split this article into two parts. Last

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) This summer, I updated the article on my data philosophy. While I was rewriting it, I cut a section—which I first wrote three years ago—that argued “We have streaming ratings

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Last week, I had dinner with a friend who works at a streamer, but doesn’t know what I do. We were chatting about TV shows, and he kept calling TV

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) It’s that time! Time for my semi-annual collection of all the “Flops, Bombs and Misses” on streaming for the first half of 2025.  Up first, films. (And specials…) As happens

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) In the first few years of this blog/website-turned-newsletter, I used to write lengthy pieces of analysis, then I would follow those articles up with “Director’s Cuts” articles, sharing all the

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) As I wrote in the last streaming ratings report, I love getting null results. If every data pull results in an amazing takeaway, something is wrong. Same goes for unexpected

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Today, I want to lay out my approach to data in one place, explaining why my data philosophy is both unique in the streaming ratings game and, frankly, worth paying

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) It’s time for another addition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”!  I usually try to balance these articles with a mix of two or three big topics