Strategic intelligence for media executives navigating the attention economy. Covers platform positioning, audience behavior, content strategy, and the convergence of streaming, social, and live entertainment. Where FASTMaster's data meets forward-looking analysis on where the media industry is actually heading.
Media Strategy
Q1 2026 was a bloodbath for the digital Hype Economy. Wall Street aggressively dumped over-leveraged tech, social media, and sports betting platforms, fleeing to the safety of "IRL" assets, legacy publishing, and physical cash flows. The ZIRP era is dead; market reality is back in session.
Media Strategy
Gen Z doesn't have a fried attention span; their brains simply demand multi-layered sensory stimulation. From Sludge Content and Lore Dumps to Reacts and Fancams, discover the six hyper-kinetic video formats dominating youth watch time and learn how legacy media can weaponize them to win back CTV.
Media Strategy
The 30-second trailer is dead. Audiences don't want to watch your commercial; they want to play it. Summer Walker's "No Wac-Man" web game proves gamification is the future of entertainment marketing. It captures first-party data and kills ad-skipping. Here is the playbook to build your own.
Media Strategy
The Paramount-WBD and TikTok integration kills the traditional marketing playbook. To win Gen Z, studios must stop buying trailers and start weaponizing their 15,000-title vault through Sludge, Lore, and React formats. Here is the $100M blueprint for cultural immortality.
Media Strategy
In 2020, I mapped the Viewniverse and warned that porting linear habits to streaming would fail. Six years later, the data proves it: premium FAST is a reality, ad-free utopias are dead, and broadcast is just a funnel. Here is the scorecard, and the survival playbook for Bundle 2.0 in 2026.
Media Strategy
Why don't we have a 'Nielsen of FAST'? Because the industry is lying to itself. I break down the definitional crisis inflating FAST projections by billions, and analyze the three options—from Playout Vendors to a Buy-Side Mandate—that could finally solve the measurement puzzle.
Media Strategy
Why do we rewatch "The Office"? It isn't laziness; it's anxiety management. I explain the Unified Theory of the Habit Economy to explain why Library depth beats Originals, why "Weekly" beats "Binge," and why the Creator Economy is the only bridge to the audience you’ve already lost.