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Streaming Ratings Report

The Olympics Dominates Streaming Ratings

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) As you may have noticed, last Friday’s article (on all of the film flops, bombs and misses for

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September 4, 2024 8:03pm
Streaming Ratings Report

Did Cobra Kai’s Batch Release Work? Plus, This is the Future of Straight-to-Streaming Films?

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) In the latest salvo in the big “Should movies go to theaters or straight-to-streaming?” debate, just last week,

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August 18, 2024 12:37am
Streaming Ratings Report

Max Wins the Week, While Two New Shows and an Entire Genre Stumble

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) August is supposed to be a dead zone, news story-wise, because everyone is on vacation, so it’s probably

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August 12, 2024 10:37pm
Deep Dives

Why the NBA Media Rights Deal is a Big Win…If We Ignore the Pending Local Media Disaster

(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 like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel free! Please though send me a head’s up so I can share

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August 7, 2024 8:19pm
Deep Dives

The NBA’s New Media Rights Deal Isn’t the “Slam Dunk” Everyone Thinks It Is

(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 like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel free! Please though send me a head’s up so I can share

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August 1, 2024 4:59am
Deep Dives

The EntStrategyGuy US Subscriber Estimates for Q1 of 2024

(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.) It’s time once again for my not quite annual, but not quite semi-annual estimate of the number of US subscribers for the major streamers in America. Remember, US subscribers.  Why

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June 26, 2024 10:59pm
Deep Dives

Checking in on Aggregeddon, Disney’s Tech Stack Issues, Superhero Fatigue, and a Bunch of Bubbles Start Popping

(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 like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel free!) Every so often, I like to write an article on “What

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March 19, 2024 10:15pm
Deep Dives

The Top Streaming Shows in 2023 – Part I: Nielsen’s Weekly Charts

(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.) Looking at the top films on streaming last week was easy. Most films have about the same run time; the big difference is whether a film went straight-to-streaming or to

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March 6, 2024 7:16pm
Streaming Ratings Report

My (Initial) Thoughts on the Netflix Data Drop, Plus The Crown Struggles, Swing to Survive Misses, and More

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what is popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Hollywood notoriously takes a lot of time off in December, and I’d say that we’re firmly in

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December 20, 2023 2:02am
Streaming Ratings Report

We’ve Waited a While for Frasier, The Fall of the House of Usher and Goosebumps…Were They Worth the Wait?

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what is popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Cards on the table, in August, I had a thesis: The strikes were going to slow down

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November 20, 2023 9:35pm

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