Binge times : inside Hollywood's furious billion-dollar battle to take down Netflix / Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski.

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: Examines the current efforts among media and tech companies such as Disney, Apple, and Comcast to catch up to Netflix in the streaming video business with multi-billion-dollar investments in new arenas.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies--Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi--as they scramble to mount multi-billion-dollar challenges to Netflix. This book reveals the true costs of the vision quest as companies are turned inside-out and repeatedly redraw their org charts and strategic plans.
    • Content Notes:
      Streamatis Personae -- Preface -- Introduction: The reckoning -- Part I: Netflix sets the bar. The discovery of television among the bees -- Hollywood's new center of gravity -- Netflix lives up to its name -- Part II: War drums. The red wedding -- "The status quo, we knew, was not sustainable" -- Live from Cupertino -- Cooking up "Quick bites" -- The kid with the cartoons -- Long game -- The birth of ClownCo -- The flywheel -- Part III: Showtime. Touched by Tinker Bell's wand -- "I love that show and I think you will too" -- Quibi vadis? -- "If you want to grab people's attention, you have to tease" -- The IQ test -- Part IV: The incumbent responds. Netflix bets on itself -- Part V: Meeting the public. Liftoff -- In space, no one can hear you stream -- Part VI: Navigating the recovery. To everything (churn, churn, churn) -- Amazon on the march -- Paciencia y fe -- Epilogue.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-331) and index.
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    • Other Titles:
      Inside Hollywood's furious billion-dollar battle to take down Netflix.
    • ISBN:
      9780062980007
      0062980009
    • Accession Number:
      1311275318
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1125757