Explaining the Business of Entertainment
Here’s some things that analysts, pundits, politicians, economists and journalists have predicted over the last couple of years: – At the start of Covid-19 pandemic, car manufacturers knew/predicted that a recession was coming and cut back on orders for parts, anticipating lower car sales. – Last summer, everyone assumed/predicted that
Before Sunday, my plan for this week’s “most important story” was to figure out whether or not America is entering a recession. For real this time, not like in Q3 when everyone was worried that we were in a recession, but then the economy actually grew more than inflation. (In
This week is a “double” issue since I (finally) took a pre-planned vacation two weeks ago. That means we have two weeks worth of streaming data to cover. And it’s good we can take this time to cover the ratings, because it’s not like there’s been any other major entertainment
This is probably a bit of a rarity for me, but the most important story of the week isn’t even a full story, but two paragraphs in one article on one small story. And that story is MoviePass, specifically a new lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors alleging that the heads
(Quick reminder: I’m on vacation this week, so no Streaming Ratings Report today. Don’t worry, we’ll cover two weeks of ratings data next Friday. But to give you something anyway, here’s part two of my articles on “apples-to-apples” comparisons, providing the six most common examples of bad comparisons I find
Take a look at this headline (from 2019): “League Of Legends Gets More Viewers Than the Super Bowl” Maybe you saw this; maybe you clicked on the link; maybe you even shared it. But if you did, you should know that… MORE PEOPLE DID NOT WATCH THE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
When I wrote my deep dive on “Myth of the Global Streaming Hit” for the Ankler last week, I knew what was going to happen. It’s almost inevitable that the next time Netflix has a global hit, someone will be like, “What about [future global hit], Entertainment Strategy Guy? You’re
This week was a bit light on new shows on the Nielsen charts. There was the usual volume of new releases, but the top ten lists were dominated by the genre fare we’ve been writing about since August. This is a testament to how big those shows really were. Meanwhile,
While we all know about “holiday creep”—holiday retailers start putting up Christmas decorations in September and pumpkin spice comes out in August—I don’t think we talk as much about “Big Halloween”. Compared to, say, the 1990s, it feels like Halloween, as a holiday, moves a lot more product than it