Explaining the Business of Entertainment
(As you may have seen on Twitter, I’ve been busy prepping something big: Still deep in the bunker. Brand new fortifications going up. We're talking LOTS of charts here. Maybe multiple data sources. Multiple looks. Honestly, this is gonna be a report McKinsey would charge $250K for, and you'll get
The last few weeks have been quiet in the streaming wars, which kind of reminded me of how actual wars are fought. To go off on a bit of a military tangent, wars are often fought seasonally. The summer is the “campaign season”, which means after crops are planted but
At the end of January, Nielsen rolled out their annual “state of streaming” report, which consisted of three top fifteen lists for Originals, Acquired and Films, respectively, calculating ALL viewing across streaming for ALL of 2022. Not just the weekly numbers we see, but the top performing shows and films
For the first time this year, the streamers finally released a lot of new seasons of television. But unlike next week, it was a fairly underwhelming crop of new series. The third seasons of Netflix’s The Upshaws and Hulu’s Wu-Tang Clan: An American Saga came out, but neither has been
I wasn’t going to write a strategy column this week, since I have a big, big strategy series coming up later this month. But I can’t resist two things in this world: – The Oscars! – And an opportunity to pat myself on the back. Plus it’s good news! And
We’re still working our ways through a relatively quiet period in the streaming wars, but these things are relative. I mean, I still tracked eighteen new streaming releases this week! That’s low for streaming, but still a lot of shows to analyze. (And I have a cool, cool, cool chart
On a whim, last October, I started collecting news stories about which TV shows were getting renewed or cancelled, though I wasn’t quite sure what I’d do with the links. Mostly, I wanted to know if the TV shows I cover each week in the Streaming Ratings Report had already
One of the questions I have about feature film distribution is whether all the (traditional) studios have it backwards. Right now, the studios are in a rush to shorten their feature film distribution windows—especially theatrical—as much as possible to take advantage of the marketing buzz of the initial window to