Apple spends lavishly on a small slate, positioning itself as the "HBO of streaming" – but with far less content volume. Its integration with Apple devices gives it a captive audience.
The rise of the studio-as-platform has led to a renaissance in vertical integration. In the past, a studio like Sony Pictures would produce a film and license it to HBO or ABC. Today, studios hoard their libraries. Apple spends lavishly on a small slate, positioning
Entertainment, Elevated. Stories, Shared. In the past, a studio like Sony Pictures
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they haven't quite been firing on all the cylinders. they were since 2019 pre- pandemic. right a year in which if I'm not mistaken... John Campea
The studios winning the race are the ones who understand that modern audiences crave just as much as they crave content. We don't just want to watch something; we want to talk about it, cosplay it, theorize about it, and live inside it.