The "League of Legends" North American championship finals took place this weekend.| CNBC
After what felt like a few slow weeks—or months—without huge news, this week had some pretty big developments. MGM and Amazon is happening! Netflix is testing their strongest response to password sharing yet! Disney got Indian Premiere League rights! With all that news, my “most important story of the week” feature will return next week. But for now, it’s time for some streaming ratings. There was a bit of a ... Read MoreBel-Air Flops, Mrs. Maisel Does Okay, and a Look at Kids Films| Entertainment Strategy Guy
– Disney and Netflix are in the “top tier” of US streaming subscribers, with 69.1 million and 66.8 million respectively. Disney just passed Netflix for top streaming subscriber in the US. – HBO, Prime Video, and Showtime/Paramount+ make up the next tier of streamers. The latest issue of the Economist features a topic near and dear to my heart, intelligence. Specifically, “open source” intelligence, meaning publicly available data. The ... Read MoreIs Disney Finally Bigger tha...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
This week, Them, from Prime Video made it up to second place on the “Originals” top ten list from Nielsen. Which left me wondering: Is Amazon’s Prime Video having their best stretch ever? Let’s find out. That plus Thunder Force’s “good” debut, The Handmaid’s Tale having an (allegedly) strong debut, and speculation about Invincible’s future in today’s “Streaming Ratings Report”. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly ... Read MoreI...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
As often happens in scientific/data endeavors, sometimes you work for hours/days on a project with no results, then, all of a sudden, it comes together and you make tons of progress rapidly. And, usually, the “tons of progress” doesn’t happen without the days of drudgery. That’s what happened to me over the last week or so. After a few days of struggle, yesterday morning I had a breakthrough, which delayed ... Read MoreHow Big Were ‘Firefly Lane’ and ‘Crime Scene’ for Netflix?| Entertainment Strategy Guy
In December of 2018, Netflix let loose with their first datecdote™. They told us this… Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR — NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) December 28, 2018 But they went further! By their earnings report, they started telling us how many folks were watching their films in the ... Read MoreThe Decay is Real: Streaming Films on N...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
My favorite Chuck Klosterman rant is in his book Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs about the phrase “apples to oranges”. In short, is anything actually more similar than apples and oranges? How is that a synonym for difference? He finishes his rant with the line, “in every meaningful way, they’re virtually identical”. He’s right. It’s a great line because when doing data analysis, this phrase comes up all the time. ... Read MoreBe-Twitch-ed: How “On The Media” Repeated a Bad Statistic| Entertainment Strategy Guy
Deep dives into Nielsen and other data that provide insights into streaming.| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The mainstream narrative of esports has been lovingly crafted by those who benefit from its success. There’s big money in esports, they say. You’ve heard the stories. Teenaged gamers flown overseas to sunny mansions with live-in chefs. The erection of $50 million arenas for Enders Game-esque sci-fi battles. League of…| Kotaku
A big topic in the streaming world has been who owns what. All I can say is, “Finally!” For many years, we—sort of speaking of the business press, especially the casual observers—have treated all streaming TV shows interchangeably. If Netflix branded a show an “original” for all intents, the press referred to it as an original and lumped all the originals together. With the Friends on Netflix issue coming to a ... Read MoreLicensed, Co-Productions and Wholly-Owned Television Show...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The trouble with value chains—which I unveiled Monday—is that they don’t stay the same forever. They are constantly changing. Disruption, right? Take filmed entertainment. In 1980, it was just movies and TV, with movies in theaters and TV on broadcast. But home entertainment, cable, digital and the internet have all disrupted those two models. Plus toys and merchandise are sold for all of it now at unconsidered levels back then. ... Read MorePorter’s Five Forces…Explained| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(This is Part I of a multi-part series answering the question: “How Much Money Did Disney Make on the Lucasfilm deal?” Previous sections are here: Part I: Introduction & “The Time Value of Money Explained” Appendix: Feature Film Finances Explained! Part II: Star Wars Movie Revenue So Far Part III: The Economics of Blockbusters Part IV: Movie Revenue – Modeling the Scenarios Part V: The Analysis! Implications, Takeaways and Cautions ... Read MoreHow much money will Disney make (or lo...| Entertainment Strategy Guy