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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Insidious Fell 60% in Its Second Weekend. That’s the Median.
I’ve lost count of how many “box office bomb” headlines I’ve read this year for a second weekend that turned out to be, once you actually check it, completely ordinary. This one’s for every entertainment reporter who’s about to write “plumm...
Broadway Quadrupled Its Real Revenue Without Adding a Seat — Now Hollywood Stars Want In
I grew up loving theater, and acting for that matter. I acted in high school plays, dramas and musicals, and even did a little bit in college. When I was 13 years old, I went to go see my first Broadway play, Les Misérables, and absolutely...
The Most-Watched Thing on Streaming Ended in 2019…So What Is The Value of a TV Series Today?
Every streaming strategy deck I’ve seen in the last two years has a slide about volume: hours of content shipped, titles added per quarter, the race to look less beatable than YouTube. Then you look at what people are actually watching, and...
What Predicts a Show’s Next Episode? The Effect of Season.
On Nielsen’s public streaming Top 10, The Big Bang Theory — off the air since 2019 — has been outdrawing House of the Dragon on the same platform for three straight weeks. The obvious next question is why. Is there something about how BBT’s...
Netflix’s Ad Problem and Gaming’s Ad Problem Might Be the Same Problem
Netflix’s Ad Problem and Gaming’s Ad Problem Might Be the Same Problem
Disc gaming is ending on a firm date. Netflix’s ad tier is growing but not engaging. The gaming industry is short on ad revenue. Put the three together and the “Netfl...
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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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