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We made it.
Congratulations to everyone who survived this year, the most disruptive and tumultuous since 2020 for this industry, and certainly around the world. We raise our glass to all of you.
Over here, as we near our second anniversary, we want to reflect and share some good news:
In 2023, our subscribers grew 61 percent
Our revenue grew 52 percent
We launched live events, with partners ranging from Advertising Week to Netflix (we’ll see you on Thursday at our Documentary Spotlight event)
The Ankler was featured in Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue
Janice was just named by CNN one of the 11 Most Consequential Media and Technology Figures of 2023
To further cap the year, Janice hit CNBC’s Power Lunch this week from New York to relay our team’s feelings about the year, and what to expect in 2024.
Of course, none of this is possible without you. As always, many thanks and much gratitude for making what we do possible. We have some more surprises coming in 2024 we can’t wait to tell you about.
– Janice and Richard
TV Market 2024
In a wobbly market, Elaine Low identifies the one genre with evergreen demand; an almost frenetic sense of nostalgia for the formats and TV style of the 1990s among buyers; and the uneasy fate of limited series:
Deadpool: Studios’ Legacy Businesses
Entertainment Strategy Guy brings the receipts to prove that the relics of Hollywood’s maligned revenue lines are flat, but not dead quite yet:
Exit Interviews 2023
Brutal, unsparing, honest: Richard interviewed four people (the first three of prominence) about this past year, leadership and the future of the business. Says the Big Producer: “2023 is the year that the Jenga tower fell”:
That Party at Lenny’s
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro leaves out one part of composer Leonard Bernstein’s life: The Bernsteins’ lampooned Park Ave. cocktail party for the Black Panthers, which Gregg Kilday remembers in this edition of Prestige Junkie:
☀️THE WAKEUP
Welcome to Ankler New York! Sean McNulty took a break from writing and gif-ing to join Janice and Claire Atkinson for a holiday lunch. He’ll be back later today with his last Wakeup newsletter of the year.
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