What’s the ceiling for live sports and streaming? The cost ceiling will keep rising as long as buyers are willing to pay more and leagues are open to fragmenting access and audiences. Today’s major sports rights buyers have virtually unlimited budgets, often backed by massive parent companies that subsidize content through alternate highly profitable businesses. Unfortunately, the industry’s focus has been on fragmentation rather than creating seamless, immersive and interactive experiences that bring fans together in one destination.
How do you envision the workplace culture of 2030? Dramatically different. AI will take over many of the mechanical tasks—contract reviews, data analytics, coding, marketing execution—freeing people up for more strategic, creative and collaborative work. Ideally, this shift will foster more engaging, fulfilling workplaces built on teamwork, loyalty and innovation—people connection may be even more important than it is today.
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Is Peak TV over? No. In my opinion, we actually aren’t in Peak TV, we are in TV Overload. Peak TV shouldn’t just be about the sheer volume of quality content – we have plenty of that. The problem with TV Overload is the customer experience is horrible – amazing content, but dozens of services, with no way to find or remember what’s on – a paradox of choice and a labyrinth to master every time you sit down to watch. To truly reach “Peak TV,” we need two things: (1) better re-aggregation and bundling of services to streamline access, and (2) more flexibility in packaging options to drive competition, improve choice and affordability – so we have a ways to go and we will see even more content made before we hopefully get there.