Dashboard 9-15-23
Social Media Hits
Cool to have Jason Sudeikis @CoxEnterprises Enterprises today, helping us celebrate 125 years. A little strange to riff on wisdom from fictitious character Ted Lasso, but we’ve all learned from Yoda, Rocky, Mr. Miyagi too. What character has inspired you most? pic.twitter.com/LJx4tmras5
— Todd Smith (@toddpr) September 12, 2023
I was thrilled to receive two awards at @TradeShowExec’s Gold 100 last night – the Courageous Leadership Award & the Grand Award recognizing CES 2022 as the largest trade show that year. Thanks to everyone on the @CTATech team, past and present, whose work made it possible! pic.twitter.com/WU4M9BGJ3w
— Gary Shapiro (@GaryShapiro) September 15, 2023
What an incredible time at the 3rd Annual AR/VR Policy Conference ✨ LGBT Tech's Carlos Gutierrez & Charlotte Schultz attended the conference & engaged in discussions around the immersive tech & how policymakers will respond with the implications for the economy and society. pic.twitter.com/looMlyUr5f
— LGBT Tech (@LGBTTech) September 15, 2023
Research
(Source: Parrot Analytics)
➢ So far in 2023 (through August 26), Apple TV+ stands out with audiences in terms of having the highest percentage of shows with demand greater than 2x the market average.
➢ More than half of Apple TV+ originals (50.8%) generate U.S. demand at or above that level, well ahead of second place Paramount+ at 41.4%.
➢ Apple TV+ has also had the highest percentage of exceptional hits (shows in the top 0.2% of series) with U.S. audiences while Paramount+ is No. 1 globally (2.9%).
➢ Netflix’s originals catalog is nearly 12x larger than Apple TV+’s and nearly 15x higher than Paramount+’s.
Up Ahead
Sept. 16: 2023 Cablefax Most Powerful Women Nomination Deadline
Sept 18-19: The WICT Network Leadership Conference; NYC
Sept 19-20: NAMIC 37th Annual Conference; NYC
Sept 20: The Walter Kaitz Dinner; NYC
Quotable
“We have tried for several decades at ACA to push programmers to allow us to do ala carte or anything close to ala carte and it is consistently rejected. It’s you take the entire programmer’s large aggregated bucket of content and you’ve got to put it all on… It’s part of what Charter wanted to do. They’re not a member of mine, but I’ll tell you based on what I understand, they made some progress in terms of getting Disney to allow them to offer a couple of packages that were slightly smaller than the giant packages that are there today. And so there’s maybe a little bit of movement there, but for my members without leverage over the content providers, it’s ‘sorry, take it or leave it.’”
– ACA Connects CEO Grant Spellmeyer speaking this week at a House Communications Subcommittee hearing on the state of the video marketplace