Content Creation & Ownership: Keys to the Entertainment Kingdom (2022)

What is the big secret that the industry is hiding?

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What’s New in Entertainment?

Disney’s $71.3 billion dollar acquisition of Fox, and takeover of Hulu. Netflix scale back after losing it’s Marvel properties to Disney and 200,000 subscribers to boot thanks to Covid and other competition.

YouTube expanding its catalog to become it’s own online broadcasting brand with YouTube Premium. Apple TV spending $2–3 billion buying and producing new content, playing nice with other streaming devices and finding success with shows like Ted Lasso.

Amazon Studios merger with MGM, and the Lord of the Ring $465 million prequel plans. The emergence of CBS/Peacock platform , the Paramount + content library, and making the popular show Yellowstone a paid premium content. What’s really going on here? The industry is on a hunt to own and control content.

The Stats

The U.S. media and entertainment industry is the largest in the world worth $717 billion, down 18 billion from previous years probably due to Covid. The industry includes motion pictures, television programs, and commercials, streaming content, music and audio recordings, broadcast, radio, book publishing…