Explaining the Business of Entertainment
Graphs, charts and other infographics that help explain the business of entertainment.
We had a fun bit of data dropped via Nielsen in August which allows me to update my most popular article of the year, “Netflix is a Broadcast Channel”. Nielsen let us know how viewership looks through the Coronavirus lock downs as of August 2020. Here’s the original 2019 data
Well, the race is on to get your Broadway musical. First, Disney set the standard with Hamilton. Now, Netflix is fast on their heels, getting the rights to a Princess Diana musical. This got me wondering, especially the Hamilton news, about how big was Hamilton in the 2010s? Was it
Inspired by AT&T’s release of HBO Max “activations” and total HBO subscribers, here’s a timeline of HBO subscribers and HBO+Cinemax subscribers over time: If you’d like to see that in table form, along with some financial numbers, here you go: What about total subscribers? Again, we only have data from
(This is a new feature from the Entertainment Strategy Guy. It’s a weekly “visual of the week” that will come out every two weeks. If you like it, consider sharing it on social media, just toss me credit.) The big Netflix news last week was their earnings report. But the