The New Netflix (With Ads!) and How to Get People Back In Theaters

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss what an ad-supported tier on Netflix would look like, as well as what the company would need to change about its business and data-gathering practices to do so. Then they are joined by the head of research at Fanthropology, Kris Longfield, to talk about a new study on the growing divide in the public's interest in returning to movie theaters. Host: Matt Belloni Guests: Lucas Shaw and Kris Longfield Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.1	today. We're going to look at the hell week in the streaming world where Netflix absolutely crashed
1:13.8	and everybody is wondering whether these streaming services can ultimately survive.
1:18.8	At the same time, the numbers are actually pretty good for movie theaters.
1:23.5	Not great, but movie theaters are coming back at least a little bit.
1:27.7	So we're going to get into it today with Lucas Shaw, my Monday morning quarterback.
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