Explaining the Business of Entertainment
Early last week, I had an easy leading candidate for the “Most Important Story of the Week”. Then, on Thursday. AT&T had their “I am Spartacus” moment. Should I change just because that story took over Twitter and would get me more traffic? Nope, but it’ll be a contender. Most
Early last week, I thought, “I really hope there aren’t any new streaming launches because I’d love to find a longer view article for this week.” The closest risk was Hulu raising and lowering prices, so phew, we made it. Then, when I saw multiple descriptions of revenue in the
Netflix moves the PR needle. Even I jumped into the Twitter maelstrom to generate clicks based on their two announcements last week, especially the decision to increase prices on US customers. The problem, for me, is that Twitter, as a medium, is really bad at digging into numbers. It isn’t
If you judged importance by following my Twitter feed, the most important story of the week is Netflix and Netflix and Netflix. For business leaders plotting the future of entertainment, though, remember to always look for the “signal” through the noise. A lot of Netflix news is Netflix noise. “Buzziness”
It’s been two weeks into the new year, but M&A is back! Well, not officially. As I wrote about in December, despite the first six months of movement (with all its tricky ways to calculate), the last six months were relatively quiet in M&A in media and entertainment. (The biggest
Happy Holidays! I’ll be off next week as will most other entertainment news outlets and hence news. As I said in the last update, I won’t be writing a “year in review”–though I’ll be putting up some old posts over the next few weeks for new followers on Twitter–because I
(This is the third part of a multi-part series exploring one specific Netflix number. To read the other pieces: – Introducting “Datecdotes”, when Streaming Companies use Data to Win the PR Wars – Did More People Watch Crazy Rich Asians or a Netflix Rom Com Last Summer? – Netflix versus
(For Part I of this series on Netflix versus Crazy Rich Asians, click here.) If you can’t tell by my article last week, I had a lot of fun with my comparison between Netflix romantic comedies and Crazy Rich Asians. Unfortunately, I had a lot of ideas for that article
I should call this a round up of the last two weeks. Even though I got my column out on time last week, I had a lot of spill over ideas. So many stories that they bled into this week’s edition. (Which is late again.) Business-wise, the entertainment press had
(This is the third part of a multi-part series exploring one specific Netflix number. To read the other pieces: – Introducting “Datecdotes”, when Streaming Companies use Data to Win the PR Wars – Did More People Watch Crazy Rich Asians or a Netflix Rom Com Last Summer? – Netflix versus