Creatively Disrupting Hollywood

For the Hollywood Studios, disruption is bad; very bad. But for everyone else in the Media & Entertainment industry, it is long overdue and badly needed. Particularly for the two most important groups: Audiences and Investors.

A decade ago, streaming services were the new and shiny toy of Hollywood Studios. They all had one, or were working on it. They had to. Netflix and Amazon had proven that expensive telecommunications infrastructure was obsolete. All one really needed to compete with the Studios to deliver entertainment content was broadband internet and a nice user interface.

Today, streaming services have effectively replaced the cable box, becoming the go-to platform for content consumption....

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i think there’s still much disruption on its way in distribution – the internet has made it incredibly cheap to reach a mass audience, and platforms like YouTube let users upload their own content. There will be much more of this and new ways for creators to monetise. We may also see commissions sold to audiences directly. And of course production costs will continue to drop as tech gets better. My guess is we’ll see more new branded curators, and some of the old ones will disappear.