(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Has anyone else noticed how weird IMDb’s genres are getting? Over the last six months or so, my ... Read MoreThe Batch Release Isn’t Dead?| Entertainment Strategy Guy
My Thoughts on Good Data Analysis| entertainment.substack.com
(This is the third part of a multi-part series exploring one specific Netflix number. To read the other pieces: – Introducting “Datecdotes”, when Streaming Companies use Data to Win the PR Wars – Did More People Watch Crazy Rich Asians or a Netflix Rom Com Last Summer? – Netflix versus Crazy Rich Asians: What Else Does Netflix “80 Million Customer Accounts Tell Us?) Okay, enough skepticism. If we take the ... Read MoreSuspiciously Recurring Numbers and More Implications/Insights| Entertainment Strategy Guy
If you clicked on the link that led you here, your biggest questions are probably...| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Looking at the Emmy nominees this year, I have to say: Well done, Emmy voters! No, seriously, between Adolescence, ... Read MoreA Minecraft Movie vs. KPop...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) A few weeks ago, I was out and about, and I wanted to find out what F1 did ... Read MoreThe Streaming Mega-Hit Show No One is Talking About| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Emmy season remains undefeated. This week, we have so many new shows, but few hits. In fact, the ... Read MoreIf a Streaming Show Flops in the Forest, Bu...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get to today’s article, two fun digressions. First off, based on the response to last week’s ... Read MoreThe 24 Month Gap Between Seasons Is...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 30-Dec-2024 and 6-Jan-2025| entertainment.substack.com
(The EntStrategyGuy is putting up a paywall on 16-June-2022—Subscribe here!—and I’ve been explaining why in a series of articles debunking myths about streaming ratings, explaining my philosophy on data, describing what streaming data we do have, and more. If you’d like to read the rest of those articles and a short case for why, click here.) Here’s the craziest cognitive dissonance of the streaming wars: At the same time ... Read MoreThere’s Too Much Data! And It’s All Lies!| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 5-May-2025| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 28-April-2025| entertainment.substack.com
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
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
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
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Want to help me solve a mystery? Starting on 23-May, my Substack saw a huge boost in traffic ... Read MoreA Case Study in Why Movies Should Go to Theaters| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Today, I deliver on a long-promised topic. As I wrote when Beast Games first started—the week of 16-Dec, ... Read MoreLandman and Severance Show Beast ...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Weekly TV Series Check-In for Q1 of 2025| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get to the last two weeks of streaming viewership data, let’s talk about “The Lizardman’s Constant”. ... Read MoreNo News is Bad News for...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get going, let me address the trade-war-sized elephant in the room, namely, why I haven’t written ... Read MoreThree Dystopian Emmy Darlings Vi...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) As television shifts to streaming, the TV release calendar is taking on a new rhythm. Back in the ... Read MoreAs Emmy Season Kicks Off, The Misses Pile Up| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I was on track to get today’s jam-packed double issue of the Streaming Ratings Report out right on time…and then I got a call to appear on The Town after ... Read MoreAwards Shows Are Struggling on Streaming| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 3-Mar and 10-Mar-2025| entertainment.substack.com
Plus Exclusive Nielsen Viewership for Netflix’s The Irishman - Part One of the Streaming Ratings Report for 3-Mar and 10-Mar| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 15-Nov-2024| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 17-Feb-2025 & 24-Feb-2025| entertainment.substack.com
Plus My Oscars Model Remains Undefeated| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Another week, another set of Streaming Ratings data! Plus I’ve got another round of shoutouts to share. First, ... Read MoreMad About the Streaming Rat...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we begin today’s Streaming Ratings Report, I want to note the passing of Kevin Drum, one of ... Read MoreA Meh Week in Streaming| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) At the end of December, Freevee (Prime Video’s AVOD/free streaming service, formerly the very awkwardly named IMDb TV) ... Read MoreHulu’s Ticket to Pa...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Since this report comes out well after these shows come out—due to Nielsen’s four-week ratings delay—I’m definitely not ... Read MoreThe Spy Show W...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 20-Jan-2025 and 27-Jan-2025 - Part 2| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 20-Jan-2025 and 27-Jan-2025 - Part 1| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) It just makes my day whenever I get quoted in another outlet, so indulge me in some self-congratulation ... Read MoreApple TV+ Achieves a New Streaming Mil...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) As I mentioned last week, I wanted to wait until we got more data on WWE Raw moving ... Read MoreNow That We Have Seven Weeks of Data We Can Say: WWE Raw i...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t.| entertainment.substack.com
Part I of The Streaming Ratings Report for 13-Jan-2025| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) To start the new year, the streamers didn’t put out very many new movies or TV shows. It ... Read MoreProcedurals Finally Make Their Way to Streaming…| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) As I wrote in my recap of Beast Games earlier this week, we’ve got one last Streaming Ratings ... Read MoreSquid Game is HUGE! So Is the NFL!!!| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 16-Dec-2024 and 23-Dec-2024| entertainment.substack.com
And Why Hollywood Isn’t Rushing Out to Hire YouTube Stars. Part I of the Streaming Ratings Report for 16-Dec and 23-Dec-2024| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Here’s the craziest thing about Beast Games, the new reality competition show from YouTuber Mr. Beast that premiered ... Read MoreBeast Games Is…Mid| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get to this week’s absolutely jam-packed Streaming Ratings Report, I wanted to share some recent EntStrategyGuy ... Read MoreCarry-On versus Re...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Like last issue, I’m going to dive right into this week’s Streaming Ratings Report without any wry asides. ... Read MoreDid Santa Bring Christmas Gifts...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 21-Jan-2024| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 15-Jan-2025| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Usually, I try to open the Streaming Ratings Report with a light-hearted or wry observation/tangent, but this week, ... Read MoreBinge vs. Batch vs. Weekly...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Let’s kick off today with a fun fact to impress your friends: In July, Paramount+ only released three ... Read MoreDid Ghostbusters do Gangbusters Ratings?| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) In the latest salvo in the big “Should movies go to theaters or straight-to-streaming?” debate, just last week, ... Read MoreDid Cobra Kai’s Batch Re...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 23-Aug-2024| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 16-Aug-2024| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) August is supposed to be a dead zone, news story-wise, because everyone is on vacation, so it’s probably ... Read MoreMax Wins the Week, While Two New Sh...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Outside of two big new movies (one from theaters; one straight-to-streaming), the streamers really pulled back on big ... Read MoreStreaming Booms! As Ever...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 26-July-2024| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Another week, another double dose of streaming ratings report. And it’s a good week for a double issue, ... Read MoreThe Bear Continues To Maul the Strea...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 19-July-2024| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) A few quick things before we get into the issue… First, according to last week’s survey, folks have big ... Read MoreStreaming’s British Invasion Falls Flat| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 28-June-2024| entertainment.substack.com
(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Recently, a friend sent me a podcast where a critic was complaining that we know what movies are ... Read MoreMadame Web’s Shocking Streaming Debut, Plus...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 14-June-2024| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 1-Dec-2023| entertainment.substack.com