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Industry leaders converse about business deals, strategy and the future of media and entertainment.

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Industry leaders converse about business deals, strategy and the future of media and entertainment.

    High Fidelity: Audible Entertainment Seizes the Moment to Grow with Original Content

    High Fidelity: Audible Entertainment Seizes the Moment to Grow with Original Content

    Audible's Rachel Ghiazza (chief content officer), Kate Navin (head of creative development for North America) and Pat Shah (head of content acquisition and development) discuss the company's unique position in the audio marketplace and why they are revving up original content for the Amazon-owned subscription platform.
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    • 28 min
    TikTok Execs Reveal How Films & TV Shows Go Viral

    TikTok Execs Reveal How Films & TV Shows Go Viral

    As Congress debates the future of TikTok in the U.S., here's an encore episode of Variety's "Strictly Business" podcast from August 2023 that examines how the social media platform has become essential for promoting movies and TV shows.
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    • 31 min
    Dealmaking in the Post-Peak TV Landscape

    Dealmaking in the Post-Peak TV Landscape

    There may be far fewer TV shows being made in Hollywood these days than in the salad days of the peak-TV era, but that just means there's more hustling being done to get writers, producers, directors and actors staffed on a development season that goes on year-round. For the past 10 years, Grandview Management co-founders Jeff Silver and Matt Rosen have navigated dealmaking for their roster of writers and producers for top series like "Ozark" and "House of the Dragon" with considerable savvy. But this year they describe an industry environment quite different than what they've experienced in seasons past.
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    Betting on the Oscars: Why More States Allow Movie Fans to Place Wagers on Hollywood’s Big Night

    Betting on the Oscars: Why More States Allow Movie Fans to Place Wagers on Hollywood’s Big Night

    Bill Speros, senior betting analyst for Bookies.com, explains why legal betting on the Oscars has grown in recent years thanks to changes in state gambling laws. The veteran analyst and journalist also discusses the rise of sports wagering as an audience engagement strategy and profit driver for media companies.
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    • 19 min
    Confronting Sora: How Hollywood Should Heed Tyler Perry's AI Warning

    Confronting Sora: How Hollywood Should Heed Tyler Perry's AI Warning

    Ever since OpenAI gave the world a glimpse of its upcoming new text-to-video software, the entertainment industry has been in a state of alarm—particularly Tyler Perry, who paused an expansion on his Atlanta studio, citing the industry job losses he predicts Sora will cause. Steven Zeitchik,  who writes about the implications of AI at mindandiron.substack.com, joins this week's episode to discuss what the potential impact Sora could have on Hollywood. 
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    • 37 min
    Anime Streamer Crunchyroll Is a Rare SVOD Success Story

    Anime Streamer Crunchyroll Is a Rare SVOD Success Story

    Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini explains how the Sony-owned, Japanese anime-focused streaming service has found success through serving a so-called niche market and its plans for further expansion. 
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    • 42 min

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