Binge Times, Dade Hayes
Binge Times, Dade Hayes
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Binge Times
Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

Author: Dade Hayes, Dawn Chmielewski

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/19/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi – as they scramble to mount multi-billion-dollar challenges to Netflix.After spotting Netflix and the deep-pocketed Amazon Prime Video a decade’s head start, rivals from the tech and start-up realm (Apple, Quibi) and traditional media (Disney, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal) all decided to move mountains to enter the streaming game. At a cost of billions, each went after their own piece of the market, launching five new services in a seven-month span. And just as the derby was heating up, the coronavirus pandemic arrived, a black-swan event bringing short-term benefits but also stiff challenges.The battle for streaming supremacy may end up having more than one winner, but the cost and disruption to decades-old business models have also produced a lot of losers. Binge Times reveals the true costs of the vision quest as companies are turned inside-out and repeatedly redraw their org charts and strategic plans. Stretching from Silicon Valley to Hollywood to Wall Street, it is a mesmerizing, character-rich tale of hubris and ambition, as the fate of a century-old industry hangs in the balance.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Dade Hayes

Dade Hayes is the business editor at Deadline. Along with two previous books about entertainment, he has written for the New York Times, Variety, and the podcast Business Wars. He lives in Larchmont, New York.

About Dawn Chmielewski

Dawn Chmielewski is an entertainment business correspondent for Reuters and was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Recode, and Forbes. She lives in Southern California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jarrett

A readable history of Hollywood’s rush to streaming. Because I’ve followed this story pretty closely over the years, and because so much has changed just in the few months since this was published (see Netflix doing the unthinkable by adding an ad-supported version and Disney+ struggling to such an......more

Goodreads review by Bright

Another grad class read — not my favorite, didn’t peak my interest as much as other books have, but it is still a very informational read on the competitiveness of the streaming services market. Emphasis on how powerful Netflix & Amazon are in comparison to the others.......more