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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
Streaming is poised to win big during lockdown not just because of demand-side effects but also supply-side effects.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Covid-19: Big shifts in the entertainment industry
The wheels of corporate change are notoriously slow, particularly when it comes to fundamental transformations. But one major corporation managed to reinvent itself not just once—but twice—in record time. Netflix started out by disrupting the traditional video rental model by shipping DVDs through the mail. But even as the company began to corner t
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His deputy Mehrotra put it more pithily. “Online video will do to cable what cable did to broadcast,” he told an audience of advertisers.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
Until recently, the relative resiliency of traditional pay TV and the rapid growth of streaming have obscured the inevitability that TV will go through a similar transition. But we’re on the cusp of it now. Traditional TV is, finally, rolling over, and streaming profits won’t likely be big enough to make up the difference. Many of the downstream ef... See more
Doug Shapiro • One Clear Casualty of the Streaming Wars: Profit
What’s coming into focus more gradually is how bad things are getting for those of us in the audience, too . Something that’s long bothered me and Erin about the hegemony of streaming is that if you do away altogether with physical media, you put yourself at the mercy of corporate accountants (who might decide there’s insufficient R.O.I. when it co... See more