The ‘Stranger Things’ vs. ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Value War

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Matt is joined by Julia Alexander of Parrot Analytics to discuss the record-breaking opening week for ‘Stranger Things,' the series' competition with 'Obi-Wan Kenobi,' and the most valuable properties in streaming. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Julia Alexander Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Devon Manze Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Mallory Rubin.
0:02.2	And I'm Van Laithen.
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0:18.0	All right, it is Monday, June 13th.
0:21.9	I hope you had a nice weekend.
0:26.5	Today we're going to be talking about a subject that goes back 100 years.
0:34.5	When the movie business first started, the studios all kept the information about who was watching what to themselves.
0:38.1	But it turned out that the studios, because they had to show their movies in theaters, the theaters needed to know what was successful and what was not successful.
0:44.2	Hence, we had the revelation of box office. Every week, initially in the trades, but now,
0:50.6	thanks to the internet everywhere, box office would be reported.
0:54.4	What movies were doing?
0:55.4	What gross?
0:56.3	When TV came along in the 1940s and 50s,
0:59.8	there was this similar question.
1:02.2	Who's watching what?
1:03.7	Nielsen stepped in and said,
1:05.5	okay, we're going to be the outside third party arbiter
1:10.0	of who is watching what. so the advertisers that place ads on
1:13.8	television will know who is watching their ads decades passed where nielsen became a dominant force
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