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Break 'Em Up: Google’s Reckoning Day is Hollywood’s Big Chance
As Big Tech faces historic antitrust rulings, a new power shift could revive studios, boost creators and reshape the digital ad economy
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
Break 'Em Up: Google’s Reckoning Day is Hollywood’s Big Chance
As Big Tech faces historic antitrust rulings, a new power shift could revive studios, boost creators and reshape the digital ad economy
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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Why Apple's App Store Beatdown is SO SO HUGE for Streamers
Financial gains are coming for Netflix, Disney, WBD, Peacock & Paramount (but not Apple TV+) in the first of my two looks at Trump's Big Tech breakups
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
Why Apple's App Store Beatdown is SO SO HUGE for Streamers
Financial gains are coming for Netflix, Disney, WBD, Peacock & Paramount (but not Apple TV+) in the first of my two looks at Trump's Big Tech breakups
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Entertainment Strategy Guy

April 2025

TV Franchises: Winners & Losers in Streaming's New War
Universes and ongoing seasons are fast replacing originals
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
TV Franchises: Winners & Losers in Streaming's New War
Universes and ongoing seasons are fast replacing originals
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
How to Bring $50M-$100M Box Office Movies Back
Theatrical's backbone has been hit by 'eventpoles', stars' streaming migration & very bad marketing
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
How to Bring $50M-$100M Box Office Movies Back
Theatrical's backbone has been hit by 'eventpoles', stars' streaming migration & very bad marketing
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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March 2025

Copying Netflix? Standup, Sports & Korea Data Might Change Your Mind
How rival streamers go astray mimicking the biggie's genre-defining hits. Plus: 3 strategies everyone SHOULD imitate immediately
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
Copying Netflix? Standup, Sports & Korea Data Might Change Your Mind
How rival streamers go astray mimicking the biggie's genre-defining hits. Plus: 3 strategies everyone SHOULD imitate immediately
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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The Chart About Audience Every Exec Should Obsess Over
The top 10% now account for half of U.S. spending as entertainment must redefine 'mass' media in an era of upsells and price increases
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Entertainment Strategy Guy

February 2025

The Wide World of Made-Up Sports as TV Bets on Rookies
Pickleball to Power Slap: WBD, ESPN, NBCU & Netflix acquire rights to startup leagues, who's winning and why
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Wide World of Made-Up Sports as TV Bets on Rookies
Pickleball to Power Slap: WBD, ESPN, NBCU & Netflix acquire rights to startup leagues, who's winning and why
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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Here Come FAST Originals. Will They Work?
As Tubi launches its first scripted sitcom, free streamers need a strategy to compete with Netflix — or risk flopping like Facebook and Snapchat
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
Here Come FAST Originals. Will They Work?
As Tubi launches its first scripted sitcom, free streamers need a strategy to compete with Netflix — or risk flopping like Facebook and Snapchat
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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January 2025

Streaming Libraries: Next War in the Retention Economy
What current viewing data reveals around the key weapon in combating churn
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
Streaming Libraries: Next War in the Retention Economy
What current viewing data reveals around the key weapon in combating churn
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
IP vs. Originals Showdown: What the Top 50 Movies Reveal
I look at three years of box office data to reveal hot new genres, six promising new franchises and the mystery of what happened to the $100m movie
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
IP vs. Originals Showdown: What the Top 50 Movies Reveal
I look at three years of box office data to reveal hot new genres, six promising new franchises and the mystery of what happened to the $100m movie
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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December 2024

Christmas Coal for 6 Producers
A24, LeBron and the Hollywood players who didn't justify their paydays or valuations in 2024
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
Christmas Coal for 6 Producers
A24, LeBron and the Hollywood players who didn't justify their paydays or valuations in 2024
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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How a YouTube-Google Breakup Would Shake Hollywood. Are You Ready?
Digital ads, creator dollars and video innovation are potentially all in play as the DOJ continues its assault against the tech monopoly
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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How a YouTube-Google Breakup Would Shake Hollywood. Are You Ready?
Digital ads, creator dollars and video innovation are potentially all in play as the DOJ continues its assault against the tech monopoly
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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November 2024

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