BONUS EP: Netflix’s Next Deal? Spotify Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Welcome to Netflix’s hard pivot. Faced with lagging engagement from its users and signs of audience disinterest in some of its top shows between seasons, Netflix’s next big thing might be… cable tele...
13 Heinä 41min
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle
Monoculture may not be dead after all — it just needed Taylor Swift in a wedding dress and Christopher Nolan in IMAX. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey break down an old-fashioned July of cu...
9 Heinä 33min
The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer
Books run on word-of-mouth. So what are the people who shape what gets made, watched, read and bought reading? Elaine Low, Natalie Jarvey and Sean McNulty dig into The Ankler’s inaugural summer readin...
2 Heinä 32min
BONUS EP: Comcast Is Leaving Hollywood. What Now for NBCU?
Another Monday, another huge deal in Hollywood. Two weeks ago, Fox Corp. announced its intentions to acquire Roku for $22 billion. Now, it’s Comcast’s turn — in reverse. Today, the company revealed ...
30 Kesä 35min
BONUS EP: What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk
Oprah flew in to close deals, FOX Entertainment CEO Rob Wade came to talk up his investment in creator-led programming and even the Teletubbies arrived, ready to party. Last week, a cross-section of d...
30 Kesä 37min
The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine
Leave it to the U.S. sports-TV machine to turn three-minute hydration breaks at the FIFA World Cup — a new feature to prevent players from collapsing in the heat — into a multimillion-dollar ad opport...
25 Kesä 30min
BONUS EP: Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal & Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars
At Cannes Lions, the exec tells Ankler CEO Janice Min how the hardware behemoth became a streaming empire — 'We really do have almost Super Bowl-size audiences every day' — and makes his first public ...
24 Kesä 32min
