For a few years in the 2010s my iPhone case had a yellow sticker with LOL written on it. I'd appeared at a conference with a woman from Buzzfeed, when Buzzfeed was the darling of media industry, whose business model suggested a way forward for news beyond the platforms; that's how long ago this was. Anyway, we were in the green room and she put some of their emoji stickers on a table and me and the rest of the people in the room descended on them, pretending we'd give them to our kids but knowing full
The Bundle
Broadcast media rights and streaming
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Global fan as hallucination
The global fan is one of those stories I’m beginning to lose faith in, like the conversion funnel and the pursuit of happiness.
The global fan exists because Netflix, Amazon and Apple want it to exist. And for as along as they want it to exist, the rights holders will play along.
At Sportel last year, Marissa Banu-Lawrence of Fox Sports put it well (on a very good APAC panel hosted by Imran Yusuf of SportBusiness): Australia is hyper localised. Even within Oz you have to go state by state. Australian sports fans are nuts for
The Taylor Swift Data Fallacy - the ceiling not the floor
Source: The YouTube Arguments
Why has Mr. Beast’s Beast Games underperformed on Amazon despite $100 million budget, why did The Sidemen drop from 73 million YouTube views to 2.4 million on Netflix, why did Pop the Balloon see similar declines?
The mistake: assuming top-tier creator success represents the average outcome when creators migrate platforms. It’s the ceiling, not the floor. Most creators moving to streaming miss the charts entirely. The best performers are acquisitions like The Amazing Digital Circus—where Netflix paid bargain prices after creators shouldered all risk.
What happened to 'broadcast quality'?
Traditional notions
The FA Player - early or wrong?
What the end of The FA Player means and what it probably doesn’t mean
The FA Player cost about £2million.
It was the governing body’s owned and operated play, built by StreamAMG.
The death knell for the service was the last WSL rights deal, which went big on YouTube over OTT.
The FA will be criticised, because that’s what The FA is there for. Like the BBC, NHS and the Church of England, they are the biggest institutions in the country, so attract haters like a magnet.
For late arrivals to this substack, I’ve laid out
