I’ve included this footnote in a couple of articles recently, but let’s talk about the C-word. “Content”. It’s a dirty word to many pundits and analysts and first off, I get it. It seems demeaning to dismissively label all filmic art as mere “content”. It feels too consumerist, commercial, what have you, like artists are just workers in a factory cranking out more product or, in this case, “content” and all content is just consumed. But let me defend it, linguistically....| Substack
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Here are some fun stats. What do they tell us? – Netflix over the summer had 80 million customer accounts watch one of their Netflix Original Romantic Comedies. – Netflix had 20 million streams for The Christmas Chronicles over the last weekend. – Amazon Prime/Video/Studios had 14.7 million total customers watch an NFL Thursday Night football game. – Snapchat had over 10 million viewers watch a Snapchat Original show this ... Read More“Datecdotes” Explained…| Entertainment Strategy Guy
