Entertainment Strategy Guy
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A Semi-Farewell: My Favorite Ankler Data Dives
What I got right, where I veered wrong and what the numbers reveal about Hollywood’s future as I move to occasional contributor
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Box Office Is Bad. Streaming Films Are So-So. I Have a Win-Win Solution
Top straight-to-TV original films could have changed 2025 with a detour to the theater — I’ve got the numbers to prove it
Latest Entertainment Strategy Guy stories
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Max’s First 100 Days: Inside Zaslav’s Gamble
The Big Q: Has it worked? Let’s measure strategy against early results
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Sports Docs are Shooting Bricks on Streaming
Hollywood fell for the ‘Drive to Survive’ myth as the genre crashes and burns
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Sports Docs are Shooting Bricks on Streaming
Hollywood fell for the ‘Drive to Survive’ myth as the genre crashes and burns
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The Truth About Slow-Grow Hits and TV’s Second Seasons
In the impatient world of streaming, data makes the case for a few outliers
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Hollywood Should Share Profits. Here’s How
Solving for SAG’s big demand — if the studios would ever agree
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AI: Yes, Hollywood, You Should Be Afraid
Talent should fight it and studios should invest — but these two thoughts aren’t contradictory
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Learnings from Disney’s Purge of 100+ TV Shows and Films
Patterns and trends emerge as content disappears faster than ‘Elemental’ box office
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Residuals: The Worst-of-Both-Worlds Scenario
How streamers, even if they say yes to demands, could still thwart the WGA’s wishes
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Residuals: The Worst-of-Both-Worlds Scenario
How streamers, even if they say yes to demands, could still thwart the WGA’s wishes
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Business Affairs: Good Cop/Bad Cop of the Streaming Wars
The back engine that led us to a standoff also can get us out of it
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Disney and Netflix Content Cuts Should Worry the WGA
Is the future dark and full of terrors – or flush with cash? How this ends depends on whose vision of entertainment wins
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When Does Linear TV Actually Die?
Deep into what I know (and don’t) about the legacy golden goose and why streamers should care
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Netflix’s Worst-Case Scenario, One Year Later
It’s the Great Correction anniversary, and looming threats to the business remain
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Proof that Studios (and Streamers) NEED to Release Films in Theaters
11 charts detail the financial illogic of the present model
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Netflix’s New Fight? Old Shows
Streaming’s Library Wars heat up as huge series count down to a platform exit