It will be the year streaming content providers will be recognized as viable contenders and will drive serious, above-the-line profits (subscriber growth); and M&E players will find M&A may provide accelerated growth and potential market dominance. It will be the year where East melds with West as entertainment discovers a borderless world. It will be…
Nearly 60 percent of Netflix customers (about 83M households), watch kid and family content which is why the company invested heavily in show-runners, producers and creative folks from DreamWorks Animation and other studios around Hollywood. To help kids forget about Moana (fortunately, they have a short attention span) they unleashed Klaus, Kid Cosmic, Ghee Happy and a pipeline…
2020 is really going to be the golden year of M&E. It will be the year of content directed/produced by females and an abundance of heroine leads. It will be the year graphic novels will keep theaters healthy. Just look at 2019’s top-ten box office films being led by Disney’s Marvel series. It will be…
The great content industry break-away – streaming direct to the customer (D2C) – has enabled people virtually everywhere to end their reluctant relationship with their entertainment delivery service, cable/telcom. People began dumping the restrictive time/day content bundles back in 2007; thanks to Netflix, which has become synonymous with streaming. Since then, cord shaving/cord cutting has…
Anand Sanwal, CB Insights CEO, constantly reminds organizations that the most difficult decision management has to make is determine it’s time to change direction, replace/kill their best product line because the world is changing; and if they don’t do it, someone else will (https://bit.ly/2KyO3zw). When you scroll through the list of 59 quotes, the missteps…
Even if it’s HBO, CBS All Access, Disney+ Hulu and ESPN+, Netflix or whatever mix of service you have on your Roku service device or mobile app; everyone knows you’re starting to take the step away from what has been the television entertainment model.
It took a while to migrate their viewers over to engaging their choice of programming to a connected device, eliminating the need to load a disc on their player, and, it wasn’t easy in “the early days” to send/receive streaming video because service was “a little” squirrely. Codecs had to be constantly improved to minimize…
With print ads moving to websites and TV ads going to free-to-view OTT (over the top) services and YouTube, he probably saw the investment as a means to enhance the marketing of his subscription entertainment service to locals in addition to indirectly reaching the global market since the Sunset Strip and billboards are such widely…
