We Don't Aspire to Be Netflix: Understanding Content Acquisition Practices Among Niche Streaming Services

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Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of 'popular' television

Michael L. Wayne

Summary: By utilizing the media industry studies approach, this article presents a history of industrial discourses surrounding Netflix's audience data, highlighting the company's evolving strategies in disclosing viewership information. The analysis concludes with a discussion on the significant implications of Netflix's audience data within the emerging realities of 'popular' television.

MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY (2022)

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Not streaming near you: FilmStruck's failure and the demise of the cinema-specific model

Anne Major

Summary: This article discusses the rise and fall of FilmStruck, highlighting its closure as a reflection of the limitations of cinema-specific models and the uncertainty of specialty cinema in the streaming industry. It analyzes FilmStruck's curation efforts, showing how they aimed to redefine the meaning of specialty cinema in the streaming context.

POPULAR COMMUNICATION (2022)

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Provocation: Why I want to talk television with global platform representatives

Vilde Schanke Sundet

Summary: Interviewing industry workers and decision-makers is crucial in television studies, but accessing representatives from global media platforms proves challenging, affecting the research and scholarly debate.

CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION (2021)

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Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?

Antonios Vlassis

Summary: This article proposes to consider the COVID-19 global pandemic as a significant new development for cultural industries and policies, highlighting the impacts on global online platforms and cultural sectors. It focuses on the performance of US global streaming platforms during lockdown measures and explores potential regionalization of media platforms triggered by the overwhelming action of US-based online platforms in the context of the pandemic. The analysis also emphasizes regulatory challenges and how new trends are shaping the current audio-visual policy framework.

MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY (2021)

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SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain

Michael L. Wayne et al.

Summary: This article compares how Netflix entered national pay-television markets in Israel and Spain, emphasizing the importance of collaborations with OTT television operators and legacy providers, as well as the value of a cross-national comparative research perspective in understanding SVOD global expansion.

TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA (2021)

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