Burning Questions About the Future of Media: Netflix vs. Disney, TikTok vs. Everyone, and the Metaverse
Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Ringer
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:55.4 | Today's episode is a double feature on the future of media and |
| 1:25.2 | entertainment. I was thinking recently that this has been a really weird summer for Hollywood. |
| 1:32.5 | Like the theme of the last decade has been streaming is taking over the world, |
| 1:37.2 | and movie theaters are in slow motion stagnation or decline. |
| 1:41.3 | And you could absolutely say that the pandemic put that narrative into hyperdrive. |
| 1:46.5 | Movie theater tickets plummeted. Box office was obliterated for two years, |
| 1:50.8 | streaming was zooming forward. It just seems so obvious that the future of film was moving |
| 1:56.0 | away from theaters and toward your living room couch. But then this summer happened. |
| 2:05.2 | Netflix hit a subscriber wall and lots of media and entertainment executives are now looking |
| 2:10.4 | at that subscriber wall and thinking, hmm, does our streaming pure play make as much sense as it |
| 2:16.4 | did six months ago? Is the ceiling of global streaming subscribers really like a billion |
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