Explaining the Business of Entertainment
Before we begin, I just wanted to say, thank you. We just had one of our best weeks ever, and I couldn’t keep doing this work without your support. In case you missed it, we published three articles on the “Dogs Not Barking” of 2022 so far, my term for
For part two of my (giant) “Dogs Not Barking” series of the first half of 2022, I’m looking at films released directly to a streaming platform. Unlike the TV side, which we covered yesterday, there are fewer movies to talk about. As a result, this article is much shorter. Just look at
It’s that time of year! Time to check in on what streaming television shows and films failed to chart in the first half of 2022. Or as I call them, “Dogs Not Barking”. As I wrote in my explainer post defining the term “Dogs Not Barking”, unlike say twenty or
It’s always a pinch weird diving into a Streaming Ratings Report after a Netflix Earnings report. (If you want my thoughts, check out these two Twitter threads here or here.) It’s so tempting to try to tie what we learn from this week’s reports to the broad takeaways from Netflix’s
It’s playoffs baby! Not for sports, mind you. (Though technically the MLB All-Star game is on.) I mean for streaming. Earnings season starts tomorrow! For Netflix, it’s a fairly important quarter, coming off two down quarters for the world’s leading streamer. (Though that’s kind of like U.S. elections: every election
For those of you who are sick of superheroes and sci-fi TV series, you got a brief reprieve this week, as the big new TV shows and movies didn’t have anyone wearing a cape. (But it’s only a one-week break, since The Umbrella Academy comes out next week.) Unfortunately, there’s
Each week, at the end of both the TV and Film sections in the Streaming Ratings Report, I nominate “Dogs Not Barking” of the week, which may lead you to ask: What is a “Dog Not Barking”? Good question! It’s a term that I started using, inspired by a Sherlock
Compared to two years ago, the energy in the film world has really moved back to theaters. When Covid-19 locked down the world, virtually all major films went to streaming, or joint theatrical-streaming releases. From Red Notice to The Tomorrow War to even Encanto, theaters weren’t driving the conversation; streaming
The “Streaming Ratings Report” took a break last week since we got Nielsen ratings data fairly late in the week, and Nielsen had delayed reporting data the week before. While I use multiple sources each week to compile this report, Nielsen data has two features that no other (public) data
Over on Twitter—follow me here!—I asked for recommendations for what I should cover in today’s strategy column. (Normally I try to do a “Most Important Story…” article every other week, but since I haven’t written one in a month, this is more like the “most important story of June”.) Overall,