
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix
- Author:
- Dade Hayes, Dawn Chmielewski
- Narrator:
- Will Damron
Audiobook
Audiobook: 19 April 2022
- 3 Ratings
- 4.33
- Language
- English
- Category
- Economy & Business
- Length
- 12H 24Min
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix
Author: Dade Hayes, Dawn Chmielewski Narrator: Will Damron AudiobookThe 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.
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