Month: July 2019
Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 26 July 2019: NBCU TBD Launches in April…with The Office
Thanks Department of Justice for dropping your Sprint/T-Mobile merger approval on a Friday, when I was already rushing to get a column out this week due to other commitments. (Which I didn’t do to family obligations in the form of children’s theater.) I don’t have time to tackle you in-depth this week, so read this ...
“Neverflix” – What Netflix’s Q2 Earnings Says About Their Future Strategy
This sub-bullet in CNBC’s “prepare you for the earnings report” article caught my attention: On the surface, it’s clearly true. One bad earnings report won’t power Disney+ or HBO Max to 150 million subscribers. But as I reflected on it, the key variable is “when is soon?” By the end of the year, sure, Netflix ...
Netflix Q2 Earnings Report – A Lot Less for The Bulls
Back in the halcyon days of April, Netflix had just crushed another quarterly earnings report and it was riding high. In Decider, I said their report had something for both sides—for the haters and the lovers, skeptics and the supporters, bears and the bulls. Well, Netflix finally had a bad earnings report. The most fascinating ...
Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 19 July 2019: Carriage Wars! (with Some Netflix Data)
I love Netflix earnings report day. It’s the one day of the year where Netflix has to go “off-background”–read this Columbia Journalism Review article by Brian Merchant on the insidiousness of that practice–and has to give real numbers. That doesn’t, though, make it the most important story of the week. That honor instead belongs to ...
Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 12 July 2019: Netflix Has It’s First Merchandised Hit
Stranger Things season 3 came out for the Fourth of July weekend and I think it is safe to say it’s the biggest TV series in America, whether or not we truly believe Netflix’s latest datecdote or third parties, like Nielsen or Parrot Analytics. If you really want to know if something is “popular”, I recommend ...
Long Reads for the Long Weekend – 3 July 2019
It’s about to be the long Fourth of July weekend, so I’m not going to post tomorrow or Friday because who should be reading about entertainment on a holiday weekend? (And since people aren’t at their desks “working”, traffic plummets for the whole internet.) Wait, you still want something to read? Me too. The weekends ...