Has KPop Demon Hunters Passed Encanto For Biggest Streaming Film of All Time?
The Streaming Ratings Report for 18-Aug and 25-Aug| entertainment.substack.com
The Streaming Ratings Report for 18-Aug and 25-Aug| entertainment.substack.com
(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.) This summer, I updated the article on my data philosophy. While I was rewriting it, I cut a section—which I first wrote three years ago—that argued “We have streaming ratings ... Read MoreHow to Know if Netflix ...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Most Important Story of the Week for 5-Sep-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.) Between school starting, summer vacations and more, we’ve got one more Streaming Ratings Report double issue this week, ... Read MoreIP Has Taken Over St...| 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.) I’m incredibly allergic to hype, and I constantly complain about people overreacting to one-off events or data points. ... Read MoreA Deep Dive Into the ...| 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.) In the first few years of this blog/website-turned-newsletter, I used to write lengthy pieces of analysis, then I would follow those articles up with “Director’s Cuts” articles, sharing all the ... Read MoreLLMs...| 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.) As I wrote in the last streaming ratings report, I love getting null results. If every data pull results in an amazing takeaway, something is wrong. Same goes for unexpected ... Read MoreI Tested Whether Screenwriters...| 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 longtime readers know, I’m a huge fan of IP and franchises in Hollywood. Even though they’re not ... Read MoreCrime Pays…At Least on Streaming| 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.) One film’s success sort of threw me last December: Netflix’s latest Christmas week release, The Six Triple Eight. On the one hand, it did well. Of the 416 first-run films ... Read MoreThe Holiday Film Bump Is Dead...| 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.) Today, I want to lay out my approach to data in one place, explaining why my data philosophy is both unique in the streaming ratings game and, frankly, worth paying ... Read MoreMy Data Philosophy| 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.) Usually, I wait a bit to self-congratulatorily pat myself on the back and link to all the people ... Read MoreSquid Game is Huge…But There Is Some Weakne...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
The Streaming Ratings Report for 2-June-2025 and 9-June-2025| entertainment.substack.com
The Most Important Story of the Week for 11-July-2025| entertainment.substack.com
(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.) Right now, I recommend two different newsletters from two ideologically-distinct-but-similarly-named policy pundits. And boy howdy, do they hate each other. On Twitter, it gets personal. Both of them accuse the ... Re...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
Checking In On the Four Horsemen of Hollywood Media-pocalypse - Part I| entertainment.substack.com
My 2025 AI/LLM Usage Update| 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 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 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 28-April-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.) 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
EntStrategyGuy’s 2024 Streaming Viewership Recap| entertainment.substack.com
EntStrategyGuy’s 2024 Streaming Viewership Recap| entertainment.substack.com
And Other Thoughts on Why So Many People in Hollywood Don’t Realize That We Have Streaming Ratings Now| entertainment.substack.com
