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“The rumor is that Eddy Cue is itching for a big sports deal after losing NFL’s Sunday Ticket to YouTube”
Alex Heath
This week’s newsletter is about the headset wars. Plus: what it was like on the ground for the Vision Pro unveiling, more about my demo, and more scoops from inside Meta’s big all hands
.@DanielRicciardo has struck a deal with @ESPN and Peyton Manning's @OmahaProd to do "ManningCast"-style alternate telecasts for three @F1 races this year on U.S. television, per @Deadline.
- "The Grandstand" will be for Canada (ESPN2), COTA and Vegas.
Inter Miami CF has gained 4.2 million Instagram followers in the last 24 hours — and now has more followers than any NFL, MLB, NHL, or MLS team.
That's crazy 😳
“Netflix is cutting back on its movie slate and just scrapped the division focused on movies with budgets under $30 million. Hulu and Showtime, which had been reliable sources of cash for independent producers and studios, are far less reliable”
Lucas Shaw
After a weekend of talking to some very anxious producers, I wrote about the tenuous state of the indie film marketplace:
@PandaValue The BNSF-BRK proxy was conservative lol
Panda Value
I get so anchored on proxy projections.
From now on just going to haircut them by 20%.
Is that enough? Is it better just to push them two years to the right?
"Global success isn’t a function of the number of hits, but rather the ability to penetrate and scale in individual markets, region by region." $NFLX
julia alexander
Netflix counts monthly active users for its ad tier by number of profiles on an account. Makes sense! But is important for differentiating net new subs and MAUs when we talk adoption/usage. How should we be looking at the pros and cons of Netflix’s ad tier thus far? New in Puck:
❗️Vinícius Jr. case, summary of some actions in last 48 hours —
• Brazil President Lula discussed the issue in G7 summit.
• 4 fans who hung Vinícius’ inflatable doll arrested in Madrid.
• 3 fans from Valencia identified, arrested & handed life time bans.
• Brazil Govt. &…
“There are a lot of people in this biz that are just losing too much money…how do you keep doing that? Consolidation is one answer. I think that's unlikely to be a big answer." $WBD
$WBD's Zaslav on HBO Max:
"5 shows are 90% of what people watch; 20 shows are 98%."
(paraphrasing from @MoffettNathanso today)
Kind of wild.
Easy to see why HBO Max has high churn and why Zas wants to bundle HBO w/ Discovery, WarnerBros, kids, and (someday) news + sports.
Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You will be Apple Music’s first song to hit 1B+ streams.
That song has nearly 3.5B Spotify streams.
On YouTube, the music video has 5.9B views.
“Google executives have considered bids for other sports content, according to people familiar with the plans, including a potential global deal to license NBA games, though the company isn’t in a hurry to secure another marquee package”
Sony is in preliminary talks to acquire a 60% stake of Rimas (Bad Bunny's label), valued at $300M (ex-publishing) from a Venezuelan investor, who had ties with Hugo Chavez.
Founder Noah Assad and Bad Bunny would have a controlling stake in the company.
"MLS and the WNBA had similar ratings on ESPN last year and have a similar number of regular-season games this year. But the WNBA’s broadcast-rights deals are worth roughly $35 million, or 14% of MLS’s 10-year deal with Apple worth $250 million a year."