Explaining the Business of Entertainment
(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy.…
(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy.…
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in…
(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy.…
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in…
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Of the various genres of internet article, or specifically, social media content, the “I’m leaving [insert social platform here]” might be the
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get started today, I’d like to ask you, the reader, for some feedback. I have a
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) I don’t want to start right off by dunking on a major streamer/PR team…but just look at this
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Let me clear up a minor data note before we start. When I write about Luminate—for example, in
(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.) Two bits of bad news broke in January: Hollywood’s “historic” Radford studio center defaulted on a loan and was taken over by a creditor, Goldman Sachs. Shoot days in Los
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) As I’ve often opined, when it comes to predicting the future, the “when” is a lot harder than the “what”. You see
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) If the news media is to be believed, one show has dominated the last two months, variously described
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Today’s article is free for all to read. If you’d like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel
(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.) For the past three years, I’ve written an article pleading to the Academy to nominate more popular films, as a way to make the Oscars more relevant to more people.
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Remember when I wondered if the holiday film bump had died? Stranger Things definitely proved that Thanksgiving weekend
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) So, a question: is anyone else as skeptical about prediction markets as I am? Just last week, I
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Probably the wittiest part of Stephen Colbert’s talk show is the introduction to his segment “Meanwhile”, where he builds up an increasingly
(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.) To close out the year/ring in a new one, I like to step back and focus on a topic that everyone should focus on: Personal productivity. It’s a bit of
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Streaming has a “big weeks” problem. While certain (mostly Holiday) weeks generate the largest TV viewership—typically Fourth of
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) I hope everyone is ready for a somewhat quiet end of December and holiday season in America and Europe. I wish all
(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.) I can imagine some readers, media industry professionals, or even just entertainment industry news consumers saying to themselves, two weeks post-Warner Bros.-sale announcement, “No, seriously, can I read something that
(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.) Let me get something out of the way: In no rational, meaningful way is this newsletter worth $100 million. Recently, another writer called my writing “clickbait” (on an article I
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get to today’s issue, let me humbly offer some modest Christmas shopping advice for people, especially
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe. Today’s article is free for all to read. If you’d like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel free!) As soon as
(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.) Well, fourth time is the charm. Since 2001, the movie studio Warner Bros. (and associated assets such as HBO and Warner Bros. TV production) has been sold four times. (Five,
@SriduttN I think you're two cents are right on here. My gut is their raise is similar to NFL, or maybe NHL. But not that much higher. Read More
@MasaSonCap Not at all, and even with the extra inventory, they aren't the NFL. But good to take control of the narrative! Read More
Yes, this headline is about the NBA. And Live Sports. Does it have implications for the streaming wars? You bet. Essentially, right as Live Sports are propping up linear bundles, the new OTT sports services need to buy sports rights. So it's boom town. Read More
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RT @Denisgreen10: The NBA Final’s Ratings Were Down. Does It Even Matter? by @EntStrategyGuy #NBA #Finals Read More
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