Amazon’s Spending Spree Under Scrutiny

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss his latest piece about Amazon CEO Andy Jassy asking his studio executives for detailed budget analyses of some of their biggest shows. They debate whether Amazon’s issue is more related to its content strategy, what happened during the production of ‘Citadel,' the overall goal at Amazon with Prime Video, Jen Salke’s job security, and more. Also, Matt makes a prediction after attending the 'Barbie' premiere. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producer: Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.5	Amazon Studios has gotten a bunch of shit lately in the media and around Hollywood.
1:10.0	We're spending a lot of money
1:11.0	on shows and movies, not having a ton of rating success to show for it, at least not by
1:15.8	traditional measurement, like Nielsen, where it shows rarely chart, despite more than 200 million
1:21.3	prime customers having access to prime video, more than 150 million of them in the U.S., about
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