Media War & Peace

The Colbert Cancellation: Dishonest Incompetence Happy Summer Peaceniks. Ready to get canceled? The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS has been the #1 late night show on TV for nine consecutive years. Last week, Colbert broadcast his last show. Because CBS canceled TV’s most-watched late night program. The last edition of Colbert’s talk show scored the biggest audience in the show’s history.

Happy Thursday Peaceniks. Ready to get funded? WATCH/LISTEN:APPLE PODCASTS | YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY This week on The Media Odyssey Podcast: Reinventing film finance for the Affinity Economy! Despite all the bustle on the Croisette, let’s be honest: the traditional independent film financing model is all-but dead. Streamers have stepped back from buying mid-budget indies, leaving a massive funding void for small and mid-sized films.

Common Sense Media is the most trusted source of recommendations for parents and families on their entertainment and tech. So, when they approached me about producing a study of the current state of the Kids Content sector; I was eager to explore this landscape.

Discover more from Media War & Peace Reports from the War for Our Attention from Media Cartographer Evan Shapiro. Over 26,000 subscribers Already have an account? Sign in Television's existential crisis Happy Monday Peaceniks. Are you ready to change? Last week, I gave the closing keynote at MIP London. Given the current state of the traditional Media industry I titled the session: “The Year of Change or Die.” If you missed it, no worries.

Pip Pip and Tally Ho Peaceniks - today I’m coming to you from the UK! A year ago, I stood in front of the UK television industry at MIPLondon and told them that unless they changed their conceptions of “broadcast” to include social video, they would lose the three youngest generations of British audiences forever and face irrelevancy. I told them the streaming wars were over, Netflix had won, and that YouTube was where they should be focusing new attention and energy.

Happy Monday Peaceniks. Let’s change the channel. - Funding Democracy; Neff & Pickard Let’s be honest. America is sick. No matter on which side of the political divide you sit, there’s a general, near universal consensus among us all that, right now, America is unwell. The most urgent sign of America’s illness is the widening and worsening chasm between us.

Happy Sunday Peaceniks. Ready to diversify? For many years, America has been obsessed with DEI. The issue, for this issue, is that there is no single, true definition of the issue. If I had to guess, I’d say a significant number of people use the phrase “DEI” without knowing that it stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And, of those who do know the terms “DEI” represents, I’d wager a meaningful share don’t fully understand the difference between the three words.