This Week's Insights: The insidious narrowing of algorithmic taste... Publishing depends more on the hits... Netflix is changing and the audience is following... Cellphone prison for theatres?... What happens when library fines are gone. If Algorithms Shave Off The Edges, What's Left? It begins with a good impulse - people want to be able to find things they're interested … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Fast-forward Netflix movies?... Should bookstores charge admission?... So many streamers, too much choice... The end of the Golden Age of TV... What the point of a library? Department of Let-The-Consumer-Define-Their-Experience, Part I: Netflix says it will introduce a feature that audiobooks have offered for a while now - the ability to speed up or … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: When art falls into the commodity trap... Diverseity in movies leads to bigger audiences... The nine-year-old who became celebrated for her theatre manners... Facebook's difficulties with deciding who gets seen... Conde Nast's faltering glossy magazine model. When Art Is A Commodity: It becomes more about getting an audience than making the art. And … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Pinterest Is Changing Its Algorithm... Why We need curators, not algorithms... Instagram gets rid of "likes"... Background dancers are becoming stars (thanks to social media)... Why orchestras shouldn't do "free". Pinterest Rode To Success With Its Algorithm. Time To Move On: The social media platform has soared by driving massive numbers of users to … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Hacking your arts experience... When audience controls live-streaming of course there are issues... Why Netflix on Broadway is a win win... And another Facebook metrics scandal - why don't we learn?... How projections are changing live theatre. Hacking The Museum Tour: Does the standard audio-guide tour through the museum seem... a bit dull? … [Read more...]