It’s The End of the Internet as We Know it

It’s the end of the internet, as we know it.

It’s not news that social media is virtually unmanageable as its lack of governance reveals deadly consequences, and destabilizes our democracy. But what does it mean when Netflix, the leader in quality production, is losing more subscribers than it adds, introducing a previously unthinkable ad-supported layer, and doing layoffs? What does this portend for competing streamers who are now facing unprecedented scrutiny? One interpretation is that we’ve found the outer limits of how much media we can handle or consume. For decades, the volume of content creation has been growing exponentially through user-generated content, and now we can’t even handle more scripted films and series.

Enter Matt Belloni, former top dog at The Hollywood Reporter, current co-founding partner at Puck News, and this week’s guest on the Media Roundtable podcast.

He joins us to discuss his recently new podcast The Town, from The Ringer, where he takes you inside Hollywood with exclusive reporting about the business of show business.

“Discovery is a big problem in streaming right now. It’s still overwhelming and they need to do a much better job with curation and pushing stuff to the right people.”  -Matt Belloni

Marketers concerned with the implications of the latest changes and challenges facing media will find this conversation meaningful. Tune in to hear our discussion around the discovery of the edges of the digital media universe, and much more,

Including:

• Why comedians are being attacked on stage and what that means about how we think about free speech
• Why everyone needs an ad-supported tier (except Apple)
• His experience of the Oscars slap as a member of the audience, and his emergency podcast live from inside the Dolby Theater
• Hot Takes on current media news including Twitter’s new potential owner
• How to balance the Wild West of the creator economy with the infrastructure that supports good journalism

If you want to hear the perspectives of an industry insider and creator, whose job is to talk about industry insiders and creators, you’ll dig this discussion with Matt Belloni. Hop in by clicking below.

Listen to the Interview