The Cultural Economist
Anthony Palomba is an award-winning professor at UVA Darden teaching Data Storytelling and Media & Entertainment Business. His work blends machine learning, causal inference, and media economics. Newhouse MA, UF PhD, Purdue MS Econ (in progress).
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What Happens When You Treat All Comedy Alike
I built a retention model on 9,833 episodes across 88 comedy shows spanning 12 subgenres. I expected the pooled model to perform reasonably well. Instead, it collapsed.
Test R² dropped from 0.301 (comedy-drama alone) to 0.193 (all comedy c...
Why Disney Still Needs Its +: What The Bear Shows Us
Act 1: The Monoculture Hunger
In June 2026, something unexpected happened across American culture: people stopped looking at their phones and looked at each other.
For the first time in their lives, New York City’s Gen Z population ex...
The Emotional Inflection Points: Why Television’s Tone Shifted at Exactly the Moments That Defined Culture
NarrativeDNA.IO
I recently launched this site myself. The analysis described in this article powered the development of narrativedna.io, an interactive script analyzer that applies this same structural approach to any screenplay or scrip...
The Netflix Growth Trap: Why Media Firms Mistake Expansion for Survival
Netflix doesn’t have to grow.
I know, I know.
This sentence will feel heretical to anyone who has spent the last decade watching Netflix’s market cap and subscriber numbers as if they were the only metrics that mattered. But it’s true. At...
Something Very Bad Did Happen...And Why Was it So Damn Captivating?
Last time out I looked at how real-time structure in 24 engineered return through constraint, and how a ticking clock can function as a retention device in its purest form. A number of you followed up asking what happens when that logic is...
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Award-winning UVA Darden professor of Media & Entertainment Business. Research blends machine learning, causal inference, and media economics. MA (Syracuse–Newhouse), PhD (Florida–CJC), MS Economics (Purdue–Daniels, in progress).
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