The Most Important Story of the Week

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) I realized

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Subscribe here.)  You may

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry.)  Since I’m now writing for The Ankler every

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry.)  Well, we’re in the

(Welcome! This is the Entertainment Strategy Guy’s regular strategy column, where I pick the “most important” story of the last few weeks and explain what it means for entertainment. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights in your inbox.)   When I saw the news

Welcome! This is the Entertainment Strategy Guy’s regular strategy column, where I pick the “most important” story of the last few weeks and explain what it means for entertainment. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights in your inbox every other week (mostly). The entertainment

Talk about a news week! (Or month…) The obvious and buzzy (and covered everywhere!) story is the WGA officially going on strike after talks broke down with the streamers and studios. But after giving the WGA-AMPTP negotiations the top spot in my last “Most Important Story…” column, I’m not ready

What a week we had here at the EntStrategyGuy headquarters. The first two articles in my huge “Future of Film” series went better than I could have imagined. Sure, there was some pushback (I actually predicted the exact responses from a few people) but mostly, there was overwhelming love and

I wasn’t going to write a strategy column this week, since I have a big, big strategy series coming up later this month. But I can’t resist two things in this world:  – The Oscars! – And an opportunity to pat myself on the back.  Plus it’s good news! And

If you thought that February was a great month—and based on my traffic, you did—well, I’ve got a very big March coming up for you.  Looking ahead, I can give you two heads up for what I’ll be writing about. Normally I don’t do this, since my writing process can