Binge times : inside Hollywood's furious billion-dollar battle to take down Netflix / Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : William Morrow, an impritint of HarperCollinsPublisher, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: xxi, 355 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062980007
- 0062980009
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 384.555 H417 | Available | 33111010821516 |
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The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi - as they scramble to mount multi-billion-dollar challenges to Netflix.
After spotting Netflix and the deep-pocketed Amazon Prime Video a decade's head start, rivals from the tech and start-up realm (Apple, Quibi) and traditional media (Disney, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal) all decided to move mountains to enter the streaming game. At a cost of billions, each went after their own piece of the market, launching five new services in a seven-month span. And just as the derby was heating up, the coronavirus pandemic arrived, a black-swan event bringing short-term benefits but also stiff challenges.
The battle for streaming supremacy may end up having more than one winner, but the cost and disruption to decades-old business models have also produced a lot of losers. Binge Times reveals the true costs of the vision quest as companies are turned inside-out and repeatedly redraw their org charts and strategic plans. Stretching from Silicon Valley to Hollywood to Wall Street, it is a mesmerizing, character-rich tale of hubris and ambition, as the fate of a century-old industry hangs in the balance.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-331) and index.
Introduction: the reckoning -- Netflix sets the bar -- the discovery of television among the bees -- Hollywood's new center of gravity -- Netflix lives up to its name -- War drums -- The red wedding -- "the status quo, we knew, was not sustainable: -- Live from Cupertino -- Cooking up "quick bites" -- The kid with the cartoons -- Long game -- The birth of ClownCo -- The flywheel -- Showtime -- Touched by Tinker Bell's wand -- "I love that show and I think you will too" -- Quibi vadis? -- "If you want to grab people's attention, you have to tease" -- The IQ test -- The incumbent responds -- Netflix bets on itself -- Meeting the public -- Liftoff -- In space, no one can hear you stream -- Navigating the recovery -- To everthing (churcn, churn, churn) -- Amazon on the march -- Paciencia y fe.
Examines the current efforts among media and tech companies such as Disney, Apple, and Comcast to catch up to Netflix in the streaming video business with multi-billion-dollar investments in new arenas.
The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies - Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi - as they scramble to mount multi-billion-dollar challenges to Netflix. This book reveals the true costs of the vision quest as companies are turned inside-out and repeatedly redraw their org charts and strategic plans.