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NEWSLETTERS
Was Amazon’s Black Friday game a gimmick, or the future of sports?
HOLLYWOOD November 28, 2023
What Prime’s $100 million bet on a Black Friday game portends for the future of live sports on streaming.
Say what you will about Netflix’s film strategy, but the company consistently nails holiday fare.
HOLLYWOOD November 21, 2023
You have no earthly idea how much people watch holiday movies between Thanksgiving and New Years. But is owning and developing this I.P. a worthy R.O.I.?
Neal Mohan, the C.E.O. of YouTube.
HOLLYWOOD November 14, 2023
The streaming conversation is consumed with a juxtaposition of Max, D+, Par+, Peacock, and Netflix. But the tech companies are playing Vulcan chess with higher stakes.
What will Bob Iger pay Comcast for the remaining one-third of Hulu that Disney doesn’t already own?
HOLLYWOOD November 7, 2023
Now that Disney is finally acquiring the final third of Hulu from Comcast, the overall valuation of the asset—and what Bob Iger ends up paying for it—may be less material than the investment required to maintain it.


Despite its fortress balance sheet, isn’t idly investing in film and TV because Tim Cook likes attending the Oscars or Emmys.
HOLLYWOOD October 31, 2023
Industry people like to say that Prime Video’s business model is about making movies to get people to buy more toilet paper. But what if the Apple TV+ model is, in part, about getting everyone to sign up for Apple One?
YouTube C.E.O Neil Mohan.
HOLLYWOOD October 24, 2023
YouTube TV’s investment in the Sunday Ticket bundle seems like merely the first step in Alphabet’s larger opportunity of turning the one-time hub of cat videos into the future home for all video—on mobile, sure, but also TV.
At a conference on Tuesday, Netflix’s V.P. of global ad sales, Peter Naylor, said the company is still setting its advertising strategy.
HOLLYWOOD October 17, 2023
Yes, it’s been a rocky start for the streamer’s ad-supported tier, but with a young audience and permission to charge high CPMs (at least for now), the biggest key to overall success may be pursuing an “opt-in” strategy while others look at an “opt-out.”
Netflix was the one company with the scale to emerge stronger, comparatively speaking, from the streaming wars.
HOLLYWOOD October 10, 2023
Ted Sarandos once said his goal was to become HBO faster than HBO could become Netflix. Instead, it looks like Netflix is simply becoming cable… leaving every other streamer, once again, racing to catch up.


Love Is Blind
HOLLYWOOD October 3, 2023
Hollywood’s fixation with forcing Netflix and the others to reveal consumption data is commendable. But what if that transparency isn’t as transparent as the writers, actors, and agents all hoped?
For WBD C.E.O. David Zaslav, almost anything is up for grabs if it generates the revenue needed to pay down the company’s whopping $47.5 billion in debt.
HOLLYWOOD September 26, 2023
Warner Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav will begin streaming NBA, NHL, and MLB games exclusively on its Bleacher Report add-on to Max. But don’t expect everything to suddenly change overnight.
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