What the Hollywood Actor Strike Can Teach You About Marketing

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Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Eric and Neil delve into the repercussions of the Hollywood Actor Strike and discover invaluable marketing lessons that can be applied across various industries.

TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:

[00:00] - The impact of the Hollywood Strike
[02:00] - What can we learn from it from a marketing standpoint
[02:45] - What Neil Patel thinks about the Hollywood Strike and how will it affect content creation
[04:57] - Why this is a great time for creators to produce content
[05:47] - Being afraid of a future dominated by technology is inherent to human nature

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0:13.2	All right, so we're going to talk about what the Hollywood Actor Strike can teach you about marketing. So interesting enough, Neil, where I live in LA, I can see the picketers. So Monday through Friday, the picketers, so there's one on the other side which is Wilshire and then one on Santa Monica which is where I am and they're just
0:16.1	going the entire day and when it was freaking hot last week they're just going
0:19.8	hardcore and and let's not talk about hot you guys don't know what hot is in Los Angeles.
0:24.8	Yeah two shape but okay so I want to give a little high level on the actor strike
0:28.6	and you can add in here too so basically so I train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,
0:32.8	and then one of the guys in my class,
0:34.6	or he's actually in a higher class than mine,
0:36.5	but he's an actor, and he's on that show Deadwood,
0:39.4	I think that's what it is, he's like the sheriff.
0:41.2	But point being, yeah, we're just like far apart the streaming
0:44.0	platforms are just making way more money now and we're not getting a piece of it and now
0:48.7	they're talking about using AI to use our likeness and just pay us one time for that and we're just so far apart we need
0:55.7	better treatment or whatever it is exactly and so it's a situation where not only the
1:00.9	actors are striking but the writers are striking too,
1:03.6	because of all the power that's consolidating
1:05.9	with these large corporations.
1:07.6	So anything, is there anything I might have missed there?
1:10.8	No, they're also striking in front of Paramount.
1:12.6	That's on Melrose.
1:13.6	Yeah, I'm sure they're striking.
1:15.2	I don't know why they're striking over here, to be honest.
1:17.4	But point being, I'll start it off first.
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