Explaining the Business of Entertainment
This week I’m continuing a bit of an experiment, having split my usual streaming ratings report into two pieces, film and TV. Today we continue with TV. Since we received Nielsen data late, this report is about a week late. (Nielsen updated their data on Monday this week.) For those
As we head into the new year—somehow, we’re in the 22nd year of 21st century—I’m pondering changes to this streaming ratings report. The biggest idea on deck is to split it into two parts, one film and one TV. So we’re going to try it this week, since the Nielsen
As everyone likely knows, Netflix changed metrics on us. Previously, the world’s biggest streamer released the number of subscribers (or households/accounts) that watched 2 minutes of a given show or film in the first 28 days. (I called these datecdotes.) Now, and going forward, they’re releasing the total hours viewed
It’s the end of the year, and I’m feeling charitable. When you write on ratings and strategy, you toss out a lot barbs, snark and sarcastic comments. Today, I want to make amends and issue some (half-hearted and heavily-caveated) apologies. Before that, I just had an article published on Whats-On-Netflix