Deep Dives

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) As I wrote in my last edition of “Renewals, Cancellations,

Sometimes you run across a headline that’s so good, you wish you had written it yourself, like when when this “a ha”-inducing headline made it across my screen: “New WGA Contract Offers Up Official Definition for ‘Hit’ Streaming Series” Obviously, I have strong thoughts on what we call a “hit”,

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Recently, someone asked me a fairly simple question: “How many

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I didn’t realize that the centerpiece of my “Most Important

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) How about this…I’m getting my U.S. paid streaming subscriber estimates

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Today’s article is free for all to read. If you’d

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) As I wrote in the intro to my deep dive

In my last article, I looked at all of the films that flopped, bombed or missed in the first half of this year. Today, it’s time to look at TV.  Lately, I’ve seen the take out there that “We don’t know the flops and bombs in streaming.” Well, next time

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Subscribe here.)   It’s August, which means it’s that time of year…