(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.) There are two types of popularity in America. First, you have well-known popular things. Think Taylor Swift, the NFL, KPop Demon Hunters or A Minecraft Movie. Even if you don’t ... Read MoreHow Popular is Anime in A...| 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’s article is free for all to read.) What’s my goal with this newsletter? I’d argue that it’s this: To turn down the volume. Sometimes, a trend gets hyped to, ... Read MoreIntroducing…The Taylor Swi...| 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 last Friday, it’s been about four months since my last “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals” update, so I had to split this article into two parts. Last ... Read MoreEven More Streaming an...| 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.) 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
Imagine connecting thousands of powerful AI chips scattered in dozens of server cabinets and making them work together as if they were a single, massive computer. That is exactly what Huawei demonstrated at HUAWEI CONNECT 2025, where the company unveiled a breakthrough in AI infrastructure architecture that could reshape how the world builds and scales […] The post Inside Huawei’s plan to make thousands of AI chips think like one computer appeared first on AI News.| AI News
(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.) Last week, I had dinner with a friend who works at a streamer, but doesn’t know what I do. We were chatting about TV shows, and he kept calling TV ... Read MoreOver 93 of the Biggest TV Show Flops, Bombs and Misses ...| 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.) It’s that time! Time for my semi-annual collection of all the “Flops, Bombs and Misses” on streaming for the first half of 2025. Up first, films. (And specials…) As happens ... Read More36 of the Biggest Fil...| 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
Mutual accountability between the individual and the community attempts to balance the following contradictions:| Holochain Blog
Berkeley had 31 shootings in 2024 leaving three dead and seven wounded. There were 35 shootings, wounding eight people, the prior year.| The Berkeley Scanner
NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs will ship in servers from Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro, enhancing performance, efficiency, AI, and robotics.| AI News
(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
"Early evacuation is the best course of action," said retired Councilwoman Susan Wengraf. "The longer you wait, the harder it's going to be."| The Berkeley Scanner
Crime levels are "returning to or surpassing pre-pandemic levels," with increases across nearly all major violent and property crimes, BPD said.| The Berkeley Scanner
(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.) Happy Fourth of July! As has been a tradition of mine going back to the beginning of the EntStrategyGuy website, then newsletter, I’m sharing my favorite long reads of the ... Read MoreLong Reads for the Long Weeken...| 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 is part two of my “Four Horsemen of the Media-pocalypse” check-in, which I started last week with a big ‘ol article on AI. Frankly, there’s just way, way (probably ... Read MoreThe State of Theaters, 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.) 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
(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.) So many newsletters use AI to generate intro images these days, so I figured I might as well. Based on my inside joke about heading to my “data bunker”, I ... Read MoreHow I’m Using AI (And Why I’m Still Under...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
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(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.) Normally, I just sneak a quick look at broadcast and cable TV show renewals into my regular Renewals and Cancellations update, without saying much else, but I’m not doing that ... Read MoreCan Sports Replace Scripte...| 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 is the seventh anniversary of the Entertainment Strategy Guy website, and honestly, I can’t believe I’ve been writing this long! Seriously, it’s been surreal to realize that I’ve been ... Read MoreHappy ...| 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.) Man, I was all geared up to write another edition of “Most Important Story of the Week” so I could discuss the interesting content release news stories that I’ve been ... Read MoreA Trade War Could Be A Disaster...| 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.) It’s time for part two of my bi-annual “Flops, Bombs and Misses” series: the TV show flops! Overall, I love putting this longer deep dive together, looking at a big ... Read MoreOver 86 of the Biggest TV Show Fl...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
A Panel Discussion on January 19, 2024, hosted by the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership & Public Service at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law When: January 19, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm Where: Panel discussion in Room G85 at the Paul College. Refreshments will be provided in the Great Hall after the panel […]| The Concord Coalition
(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.) There’s a narrative out there that old Hollywood/the traditional entertainment companies are “losing” to tech companies because they’re too “stupid/stodgy/old fashioned/out of touch…” and so on. Obviousl...| 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.) Just because you’re good at one thing, doesn’t mean you’re good at everything. Take, for example, LeBron James. He’s one of the top three basketball players of all time, but ... Read MoreLeBron (Probably) Isn...| 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 don’t personally dabble in cultural criticism. Sure, everyone has an opinion (and I do too!) but you come here for strategic advice or data analysis, not movie reviews. Occasionally, ... Read MoreMy 2025 Plea to...| 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’s article is free for all to read. If you’d like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel free! Please though send me a head’s up so I can share ... Read MoreWhy the NBA Media Rights Deal is a Big Win...| 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’s article is free for all to read. If you’d like to cross-post it to your newsletter, feel free! Please though send me a head’s up so I can share ... Read MoreThe NBA’s New Media Rights Deal Isn’t th...| Entertainment Strategy Guy
In this blog, we’ll talk you through the changes we will be making to ungraded inspections in the autumn term. You may already be aware of these changes from the announcements that Sir Martyn Oliver made in his speech to …| educationinspection.blog.gov.uk
Gaussian processes are lovely things. I’m a big fan. They are, however, thirsty. They will take your memory, your time, and anything else they can. Basically, the art of fitting Gaussian process models is the fine art of reducing the GP model until it’s simple enough to fit while still being flexible enough to be useful. There’s a long literature on effective approximation to Gaussian Processes that don’t turn out to be computational nightmares. I’m definitely not going to summarise...| Un garçon pas comme les autres (Bayes)
Explore the components and inspiration that make up Holochain. Public keys, distributed hash tables, hashchains and more.| Holochain Blog
Holochain provides blockchains with auditable applications that can be tied to on-chain transactions, opening new possibilities for Web3.| Holochain Blog
High Cardinality woes are far & frequent in today's modern cloud-native environment. What does it mean, & why is it such a pressing problem?| last9.io