Explaining the Business of Entertainment
Entertainment topics simple and complex explored in-depth.
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
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
I could see some folks pushing back against including Dahmer – Monster in my “Hot August Genre” wars series. First, it’s not August anymore. Second, is this show really “genre”? Hell yeah! (And yes, technically Netflix titled this miniseries “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”. I’ll refer to it
For a few years now, I’ve tracked the Academy Awards’ Best Picture nominees to determine if they were “popular”. Is this a vitally important topic to the business of entertainment? Yes and no. No, because, in general, awards don’t determine if you have a good business strategy. It only proves
When you write thousands of words each week—which somehow I do, which still fascinates me—naturally I get some things right and some things wrong. Back at the end of Q1, I wrote an article for the Ankler calling myself out for my biggest misses and hits so far in 2022.
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
[Hey, you may be thinking, this isn’t a Streaming Ratings Report! True. I spent almost all of this week (and some of last week) updating my “U.S. Subscriber Estimates for Q1 of 2021.” Given that I just published a sneak peek at the Ankler yesterday, I wanted to put up
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