A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming
Now all he's got to figure out is live programming, sports, gaming, pricing and, oh, advertising. — In mid-February, Greg Peters … X: @lucas_shaw , @lucas_shaw , and @lucas_shaw X: Lucas Shaw / @luc...
Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the ten most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but a majority of the 100 most popular titles are original series
Netflix isn't the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows. — We are inching closer to Paramount having a new owner. X: @lucas_shaw , @lucas_shaw , @lucas_shaw ...
Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI's impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal
Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job. A comedian in Los Angeles … Twitter: @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw See also Mediagazer Twitter: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_sh...
Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week
Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news … LinkedIn: Satoshi Ido . Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @benedictevans , @lucas_shaw ...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content
Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor. — It was December 2010. Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @jonnyrmcfarlane , @alisterbull1 , @gloriacheunghy , @chris_skinner , and @mymy...
How Indonesia's premium streaming video service Vidio is outperforming Netflix and Disney+ in terms of consumption in the world's fourth most populous country
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : Tweets: @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw Tweets: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : Netflix, Amazon and Disney dominate online video in almost every major market. But in Indonesia, they a...
Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend ~$15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix's $13.6B, Disney+'s $9.5B, and Apple's $6B
Good afternoon from Los Angeles. I am headed to Singapore and Seoul at the end of the month. If there is anyone I should meet while I am there … Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @lucas_shaw , and @astaniscia86...
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others are cutting costs and scrapping TV shows at record rates; 559 scripted shows were released in 2021, up by 200+ on 2013
The sudden decline in Netflix's share price and the growing fear of a recession have forced Hollywood into a new period of fiscal austerity. Tweets: @ampressman , @trengriffin , @lucas_shaw , @carnage...
Sources: as Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen buy Las Vegas properties, they are less involved in a16z's daily operations and cutting down on board memberships
Recently, the Bay Area-based venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took part in a popular pandemic-era pastime: updating the location on his LinkedIn profile. Tweets: @pt , @lucas_shaw , @chafkin , @tomgara...