Sitemap - 2021 - The PARQOR Substack

Member Mailing #284: PARQOR is Moving to The Information

Monday AM Briefing #72

Friday Mailing #50: Robert Iger, Mark Zuckerberg & Vision

Member Mailing #283: After Snap, Facebook & YouTube's Q3 Results, What Will Happen to Legacy Media AVODs?

Monday AM Briefing #71

Friday Mailing #49: After Q3 2021, Does Netflix Have the AVOD Model In Its Sights?

Member Mailing #282: A Big PR Push from YouTube & Hollywood-Meets-Creator-Economy

Today at 12:30pm - Fireside Chat with Andrew Freedman of Hedgeye (October 18, 2021)

Monday AM Briefing #70

Friday Mailing #48: Lebron's SpringHill Zigs Where Reese's Hello Sunshine Zagged

Member Mailing #281: Netflix & Dotdash, Imitated But Never Replicated by Condé Nast

Monday AM Briefing #69

Friday Mailing #47: RSNs & Disaggregation

Member Mailing #280: AMC Networks, MSG Entertainment Face New Friction with Linear AND Streaming Consumers

Monday AM Briefing #68

Friday Mailing #46: Netflix, Wonka, Gaming, Facebook & Kids & Family

Monday AM Briefing #67

Mic Drop #45: A Dotdash Future for Chip & Joanna Gaines?

Member Mailing #279: Roku & Google Bet on Programming Guides of FAST Channels

Monday AM Briefing #66

Mic Drop #44: Why DAZN Can't "Hyper-serve" 17MM Global Badminton Fans On Its Own

Member Mailing #278: Can or Will Comcast Ever Innovate A Smaller Bundle & Set-Top Box?

Monday AM Briefing #65

Mic Drop #43: Marketing Apple TV+

Member Mailing #277: Are Disney CEO Bob Chapek's "Top Lieutenants" the Right Fiduciaries for DTC Streaming?

Monday AM Briefing #64 (**Link Fixed**)

Mic Drop #42: Is Spotify Pivoting Away from Expensive Talent Deals?

Member Mailing #276: Hollywood-meets-Creator-Economy, YouTube, Spotify and OnlyFans

Monday AM Briefing #63

Member Mailing #275: Key Themes from 2021

Monday AM Briefing #62

Mic Drop #41: Disney+ Needs Bundles (& Perhaps Personalization) to Scale

Member Mailing #274: ARPU & Convergence

Monday AM Briefing #61

Mic Drop #40: Hello Sunshine, Curse of the Mogul & "G"

Member Mailing #273: MGM Resorts M life "Convergence" vs. "Metaverse" Convergence

Monday AM Briefing #60

Mic Drop #39: Netflix, 6 Underground & The Curse of the Mogul

Member Mailing #272: After Sun Valley, Co-opetition or Competition in Connected TV?

Monday AM Briefing #59

Mic Drop #38: Netflix Gaming (2021), Netflix Max (2013-15) & Product Channel Fit

Monday AM Briefing #58

Mic Drop #37: discovery+ vs. Creator Economy

Member Mailing #271: AVOD after the 2021 Upfronts

Monday AM Briefing #57

Mic Drop #36: Peacock & Sam's Club

Member Mailing #270: First-Party vs. Third Party "Aggregator 2.0" Bundles

Monday AM Briefing #56

Mic Drop #35: Hulu is Outperforming Expectations... Or Is It?

Member Mailing #269: Disney, Sinclair & The Sports Streaming Consumer

Monday AM Briefing #55

Mic Drop #34: Apple TV+ & Churn

Member Mailing #268: Churn & “Consistently Good” Content

Monday AM Briefing #54

Mic Drop #33: Prime Day Is a ”Massive Dry Run” Towards Amazon Channels Bundling

Member Mailing #267: How "In The Heights" Moves HBO Max Closer to Netflix's Model

Monday AM Briefing #53

Mic Drop #32: Netflix.Shop Solves More for Netflix Than Commerce

Member Mailing #266: Netflix & Verizon Test Bundling Streaming with Gaming

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #52

Mic Drop #31: Jupiter's Legacy Marks Another Failure for Netflix's Big Bet on Owned IP

Member Mailing #265: Jeff Bezos & David Zaslav Learn "It's Good to Be The King"

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #51

Addendum to Member Mailing #264: Amazon Prime, Hulu & Personalization

Member Mailing #264: Subscribers vs. Viewers in Sports Streaming

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #50

Mic Drop #30: My 2021 Predictions for HBO Max & Discovery Came True

Member Mailing #263: The AT&T-Discovery Merger's Questionable Bet on Rebundling

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #49

Mic Drop #29: Jeff Bezos, Media Mogul and/or Media Visionary

Member Mailing #262: Roku, YouTube & Product Channel Fit

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #48

Mic Drop #28: ViacomCBS wins with Sports, Kids and Pluto TV in Q1 2021

Member Mailing #262: HBO Max's AVOD, DotDash, and Unlocking Value Through Fewer Ads

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #47

Mic Drop #27: NBCU & WarnerMedia Seem Skeptical About Sports Streaming's Future

Member Mailing #261: The NHL Is Paid Handsomely by Disney & WarnerMedia

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #46

Mic Drop #26: Is Sony Pursuing My Recommended Strategy for Paramount+?

Member Mailing #260: Evaluating the Televisa-Univision Merger Announcement

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #45

Mic Drop #25: Who *is* the target customer for AVOD?

Member Mailing #259: An Evolving Tension Between Data and Context in AVOD (*Updated*)

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #44

Mic Drop #24: In one week, momentum changes for STARZ in the "Genre Wars"

Member Mailing #258: Netflix Bets A Half-Billion on Benoit Blanc

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #43

Mic Drop #23: "The Office" on Peacock Is No Longer in Nielsen Ratings (2.0)

Member Mailing #257: The PARQOR Hypothesis Predicts Streaming in 2025

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #42

Mic Drop #22: Investors Get Bearish, Quickly, on Paramount+ ($VIAC) & discovery+ ($DISCA)

Member Mailing #256: Amazon, NBCU, The NFL, & Addressable Advertising

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #41

Mic Drop #21: Former Disney DTCI Chairman Kevin Mayer Gets Candid

Member Mailing #255: Rethinking the Long-Term Value of Original Content in Streaming

Mic Drop #20: Success and Underperformance in Comcast's ($CMCSA) Strategy for Peacock

Member Mailing #254: How Will We Define A "Hit" With Less Transparency?

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #39

Mic Drop #19: IMDb TV Demands More of Our Attention with "Bosch" Spinoff

Member Mailing #253: AMC Networks, Starz & "Genre Wars" Strategies

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #38

Mic Drop #18: Some Rewards for Skeptics of Disney+

Member Mailing #252: Coopetition and Original Content Strategies in Streaming

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #37

Mic Drop #17: We know more about IMDb TV than Amazon Prime Video

Member Mailing #251: HBO Max's bet on Snyder Cut: Justice League, Disney's bets on Hulu & Star

PARQOR Monday AM Briefing #36

Mic Drop #16: The Execution Risk Has Increased for Netflix's "The Three-Body Problem" Production in China

Investors See More Data Transparency, Creatives See Less in Streaming

Mic Drop #15: STARZ's finds wins in the "Genre Wars"

Harry Potter, the PARQOR Hypothesis, and Peacock and/or HBO Max

Mic Drop #14: HBO Max Had More Wins in Retail Than Wholesale in Q4

Lupin & The Significance of Netflix's ($NFLX) Q4 Letter to Shareholders

Mic Drop #13: Apple Extends Its Free Trial for TV+

Why Dan Le Batard Leaving ESPN With His Podcast RSS Feed Matters

Mic Drop #12: Kevin Feige Confirms Kevin Mayer's Flywheel Died

Peacock's ($CMCSA) Quiet Pivot To Focus On Its Free and Premium Tiers

Mic Drop #11: A 2021 discovery+ prediction comes true, already

CuriosityStream ($CURI) and the Launch of discovery+ ($DISCA)