Explaining the Business of Entertainment
Entertainment topics simple and complex explored in-depth.
(Just a reminder: every article in this series is being collected in one giant substack post/article here. It’s sort of like a little e-book for all of my subscribers.) PART III – Customer Reviews, Awareness & Interest Metrics Though I always push myself to question my assumptions, conclusions and data—hence
Yesterday’s article may have been a let down for some folks. I promised a big, deep analysis, and it only included four charts! Well, time to get on with it. With a ton of charts. Over twenty! But first, some more throat-clearing, explaining Nielsen’s data and dataset. And then trust me,
Well, it’s time to finally, officially and definitively answer the question… Should You Release Your Film in Theaters or Straight-To-Streaming? Rephrased, does it make sense to release films “straight-to-streaming” à la Netflix? (And formerly Apple, Prime Video, Hulu, sometimes Disney+, HBO Max in 2021 and occasionally Peacock and Paramount+?) Should
(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
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
Okay, I’ve spent the last week laying out which TV shows and films bombed or flopped in 2022, and figured out which TV shows won the whole year. Now it’s time to “rank” the streamers by winners—which are fairly obvious—and losers, which is a bit harder to figure out, since
It’s time to put a bow on the streaming wars in 2022. I spent all year celebrating hits in my weekly streaming ratings report, and the last two articles calling out the misses of the second half of the year. (Lest people—especially new readers—think I’m all negativity, my streaming ratings
Okay, time for part two of our semi-annual feature, “Dogs Not Barking of the Year” (or “DNB”). If you thought yesterday was juicy, there’s over 140 TV flops, bombs and misses in today’s article. You can find our “DNBs” for the first half of 2022 here and here. If you
Well, it’s that time of the year. Time to review all of the flops, misses and bombs of the second half of 2022! (You can find our “Dogs Not Barking” for the first half of the year here and here.) Once we get this done, I’m going to figure out all
So, last week, the Streaming Ratings Report ran a bit long and, since I don’t want to go too long, I cut out this section, on foreign films, especially since it feels less like a streaming ratings article and more like a strategy column. (For my free subscribers, this means