Sitemap - 2025 - The Entertainment Strategy Guy

Be Bold, Paramount! Can New Paramount Disrupt Streaming Wars?

Well, Actually, The Streaming Wars Are Getting More Competitive...

Long Reads for the Long Weekend - Summer 2025

The State of Theaters, the Decline of Cable, and Piracy

No, Seriously, Are the Streaming Wars Getting More Competitive?

A Look at Both Sides of the AI Debate

How I’m Using AI (And Why I’m Still Underwhelmed)

If a Streaming Show Flops in the Forest, But No One Writes About It, Did It Really Flop?

11 Reasons For AT&T/WB/Discovery’s Streaming Wars Stumbles

The 24 Month Gap Between Seasons Is Killing Your Shows

A Case Study in Why Movies Should Go to Theaters

The All-in-One Streamer is Dead

Landman and Severance Show Beast Games What a Real Hit Is

No News is Bad News for Big Budget Hit Shows

Can Sports Replace Scripted Television Viewership on Broadcast TV?

The "What About This? Fallacy", Hit Shows Getting Early Renewals, and Two Struggling Streamers

Recapping 2025's Big Franchise and IP Developments

Three Dystopian Emmy Darlings Vie for the Streaming Crown

Happy Anniversary (To Me!) and an Update to my 2025 Blogroll Update

Why You Should Subscribe

Do Oscar Nominations Drive Streaming Viewership?

As Emmy Season Kicks Off, The Misses Pile Up

A Whole Bunch of Thoughts on IP, Sinners, The Indie TV Model, NBA Rights and More

Adolescence vs. The Residence: Who Wins? Plus Wicked's Big Opening

What Genres, Streamers and Creators Won 2024? And Who Lost?

The Losers and Winners for Film and TV in 2024

Caitlin Clark By Herself Is WAYYYYYY More Popular Than Formula 1

The Biggest Streaming Hits in a Down Year

Did Disney+ End Its Losing Streak?

Moana 2 Smacked Down The Electric State

How the Trade Wars Could Decimate Substackers and the Creator Economy

A Trade War Could Be A Disaster…For Hollywood

Landman, Fallout, Bridgerton and Squid Game Vie for the Streaming Crown…Oh, And Bluey

Reacher vs. 1923, and Do We Finally Have a Hit Basketball Show?

Awards Shows Are Struggling on Streaming

The Surprise Hit Film of 2024

Over 86 of the Biggest TV Show Flops in the Second Half of 2024

52 of the Biggest Streaming Film Flops in the Second Half of 2024

Mad About the Streaming Ratings

Uncertainty

A Meh Week in Streaming

Hulu’s Ticket to Paradise...and a Bunch of Theatrical Films Underperformed on Streaming

The Spy Show Who Streaming Ratings Me

The Saga of Venu...And What It Says About the Future of Sports Right

Streaming Football Got Much, Much, Much Bigger in 2024…

Apple TV+ Achieves a New Streaming Milestone

Now That We Have Seven Weeks of Data We Can Say: WWE Raw is Still WWE Raw

Do the Traditional Media Companies Even Know What They’re Doing?

Is Super Hero Fatigue Real?

Procedurals Finally Make Their Way to Streaming...

Romantasy, a Genre That Lives Up to the Hype?

Thoughts on the Wildfires, Local News, TikTok, Oscar Nominations, and a Whole Lot More

Squid Game is HUGE! So Is the NFL!!!

Beast Games Is...Mid

Carry-On versus Red One versus It Ends With Us

LeBron (Probably) Isn’t a Billionaire Anymore

Did Santa Bring Christmas Gifts or Coal to These Straight-to-Streaming Holiday Films?

Binge vs. Batch vs. Weekly vs. Batch-to-Weekly vs. Triple Batch…So Many Ways to Release a TV Show

My 2025 Plea to the Academy Voters: Nominate More Popular Films For Best Picture

The 26 Biggest Myths in the Entertainment Industry…Debunked