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RTL put a 30-year-old action series on YouTube and this happened
Who started watching, what they did next and how RTL sells it according to RTL Deutschland's CEO.
 • Marion Ranchet
Where does the next Ms. Rachel come from?
Emily Horgan on Netflix's kids top 10, YouTube's broken revenue and where new IP gets built.
 • Marion Ranchet
Why jobs came last in the Paramount settlement
A judge has approved the settlement. Evan Shapiro and I look at who it protects.
 • Marion Ranchet
Are you in the scale game or the trust game?
Evan Shapiro and Shira Lazar ranked nearly 700 creators on how many people react per view, and the #1 has about a million followers.
 • Marion Ranchet
Netflix spends about 10% of revenue on its platform. What about everyone else?
Live from Streaming Made Easy Live with Bedrock, the DPP and NRK, on the metric that puts a price on scale.
 • Marion Ranchet
We know what media did this summer
World Cup records, an $18B cheque from Meta, Disney awake at last and a merger about to pay $7 million a day.
 • Marion Ranchet
Out with a bang: the season 2 finale, in 2 parts
An H1 step-back on key trends plus Evan's new attention index
 • Marion Ranchet
M&A Shark Week: four mergers and the one that split us
Comcast, Sky-ITV, Fox-Roku, Paramount-WBD. Evan and I agreed on three of them.
 • Marion Ranchet
The whole TV dial, rebuilt for vertical.
The team behind Shtisel and Survivor is betting that real TV, not micro drama, wins the phone.
 • Marion Ranchet
The fandom flywheel BBC built to outlast Bluey
One hit show was never the plan, it was the prototype.
 • Marion Ranchet
The kids are NOT alright
AI slop, gatekeepers and the kid's media crisis
 • Marion Ranchet
Why 50,000 beats 5 Million
Is going small the smartest move in media right now?
 • Marion Ranchet
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