This Week's Insights: Are the glory days of streaming over?... Do you need social media followers to get a job as an artist?... Rules for audience talkbacks... Remaking how public spaces are used... Remaking citadels into public commons. Was The Freedom Of Streaming Just A Dream? In the bad old days, viewers of TV and movies were captive to the bundles of channels the cable … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Focused on building a better audience... When the buzz drowns out the show... New York's Culture Pass is a hit... Rethinking the audience for city hall... How to fix Rotten Tomatoes. Build A Better Audience? We talk all the time about making better art, better productions, better audience experiences. But what about the quality of the audience itself? A … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: The collapse of self-publishing platforms... How "wisdom of the crowds" really works... Books are still the key to modern libraries... Why Alexa threatens the BBC... Tanglewood talks the talk. Self-Publishing Platforms Are Now A Cesspool: The self-publishing revolution was the great liberation of authors. Suddenly, anyone could get their book published, … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: It's getting much more difficult to measure popularity... A Wikipedia for Gen Z's... How TV shapes how we think... What happens when you decide to give away all your tickets?... Emojis are now the preferred way of expressing emotion (over phone calls). What's The Measure of Popularity? Perhaps the better way of framing it is what's the measure of … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: How technology changed TV... Study says we're not so hot on movie remakes... The remake of the Indianapolis Museum challenges what a museum is... Does TV make you dumber?... Algorithms are changing our tastes Why TV Got To Be So Much Better: It's technology, actually. When TV was a transitory thing you could see only when it was scheduled, it was … [Read more...]