Latest articles by David Bloom
Netflix remains a highly rated company with best-in-class pay. But the recent experience of one former engineer, who ditched a half-million-dollar salary for personal happiness, suggests that working for Netflix might not always be so chill
Bloom: As COVID lingers, Russia’s Ukraine invasion grows ever more heinous, and worries about World War III crowd forward, it can be difficult to get excited about the latest scripted drama, standup special or reality show debuting online
Bloom: What will TV sports be like in the hands of a company that just made $83.4 billion in a single quarter? We’re about to find out
The so-styled ‘+play’ could be a mortal blow for the battered cable TV business, while fixing some of DTC’s most intractable and annoying customer headaches
Applebee’s ad screwup spoils opportunity for network to reclaim its authority as the only real cable news network
The creative mind behind nineties Roland Emmerich-directed blockbusters including ‘Stargate’ and ‘Godzilla,’ and aughts-era basic-cable stalwarts such as ‘Leverage,’ reinvents himself yet again as a prolific indie producer of ‘lean-back’ AVOD/FAST fare
CEO Wade Davis promises 'a massive capital commitment of billions of dollars on new Spanish-language content'
Bloom: The name change marks the most concerted declaration yet of streaming love by any major media company (short of, of course, Netflix itself)
From the performances of 'Wheel of Time' and 'Reacher' to the Oscar noms generated by 'Being the Ricardos,' everything has come up Amazon lately
Bloom: With more than 80 movies on its 2022 slate, Netflix has more releases than all the major studios combined
Jeff Zucker's abrupt exit leaves the news organization rudderless at the worst possible time
NBCU will double its investment to $3 billion this year. But that could be too little too late.
Bloom: Beneath all the ideological noise is a simple business truth — pay TV is able to support niche channels across the political dial less and less
That Microsoft wants to double down on gaming with a $69 billion Activision-Blizzard deal isn’t surprising. But what happens if the Windows giant decides to start dabbling in video streaming?
Bloom: Study suggests Netflix has become a must-have utility, and it raised prices not because it needed to ... but because it could
Bloom: Should ongoing talks with Major League Baseball generate runs, it would mark Apple’s first move into live sports, opening a new front in its increasingly serious efforts to make Apple TV Plus more than a giveaway for iPhone buyers
Bloom: CES is when Sony Electronics traditionally spotlights the TVs, pro production equipment, cameras, audio gear and other hardware used to create and play back all the movies, music, games and episodic series made by its entertainment divisions
Bloom: 'Take a not-so-perfect project, add three (or more) big stars and hit ‘play’
CEO Vikrant Mathur says viewership is up big across Future’s FAST channels, including a whopping 160% for HappyKids
Screen Engine/ASI chief Kevin Goetz’s research is ever more important as audience options approach infinity, marketing costs continue to rise, and clicking away to something else takes milliseconds
In his valedictory CNBC interview/career retrospective, outgoing media mogul Bob Iger says the streaming service needs more ‘dimensionality’
From Amazon’s successful expansion of ‘Wheel of Time’ beyond just fantasy book readers to ViacomCBS’ explosive expansion of its ‘Yellowstone’ audience through multi-platform exposure, new Fandom report examines the new rules and best practices for marketing to hardcore enthusiasts
The Disney-YouTube TV dispute may settle – just like a hundred carriage fights in the past – on the brink of blackout. Or it could mark one of the first battles in the next generation of TV distribution
