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with curly hair drop everything to follow a guy she only kind of knew all the way to college.

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It is Wednesday, April 17th.

When you talk about the entertainment business, you obviously talk about the attention economy, the battle for eyeballs between all forms of entertainment and social

media and other distractions.

We talked about that before on the show, especially the battle between Hollywood

and the big tech companies. I think it's pretty clear that big tech is doing a better job

these days at winning attention, at least when it comes to minutes spent on platforms like

TikTok and YouTube, and we should count Netflix here too. The tech is a big differentiator there.

I saw a new report this week that shed

some light on that push and pull. Accenture, the consulting firm, did a survey of 6,000 people

across 10 countries and asked them about their media consumption habits. There's some interesting

stuff in it. Two-thirds of consumers consider user-generated content as entertaining as traditional forms of

entertainment. Two-thirds, that's a scary number for the companies that spend $200 million

on traditional forms of entertainment, namely movies. The report also goes on to recommend what it

calls radical reinvention in entertainment to better align the offerings from the industry to what

consumers actually want. Obviously, that's easier said than done, but it cites specific companies

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