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How Barstool's Valuation Grew from $12.5M to ~$500M in Four Years
@stoolpresidente explains two major things that led to @barstoolsports explosive growth after the 2016 Chernin investment:
1) Having a massive, loyal audience that was built over the past... See more
The All-In Podcastx.comPrestige, quality, and design are harder to put numbers on.
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
On the basis of an extensive data set combined with detailed case studies, I show that rather than relying solely on creative merit, critical and commercial success in video games is more often than not the result of formulating an innovative business strategy. Set against a background of the broader structural shift from a product-based business
... See moreJoost van Dreunen • One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games
process of cultural meaning—and decision-making,” he wrote. Pajkovic set out to test Netflix’s impact on personal taste, and to do so designed a set of fake accounts with different archetypal personalities.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Netflix and Other Streaming Companies Could Win Big at the Oscars. Why Investors Are Still Losing.
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I bring this up to compare MasterClass to another large media experiment — Quibi. They had similarities: both of their products had high production costs. They also both leveraged some of the most talented and famous people in the world. But MasterClass did something different than Quibi: it took things step by step. Raise enough to test a... See more
Adam Keesling • Why MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery
This isn’t your average temporary channel shift. The “window” is the one big moat protecting theatre revenues. By eroding the “window” even for a bounded period studios will get to test success of movie releases on streaming platforms and use that to negotiate post-lockdown. Though theatres won’t go away, their negotiating power certainly will.