The Streaming Insider
Glo RobinsonI build data products at a major streamer by day and write TV screenplays by night. This newsletter covers what I see from both sides: why streamers can't tell what's working, why creators can't get paid fairly, and what it'd take to fix both.
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Micro Dramas Are the Boxed Wine of Hollywood Productions
Hello, my name is Glo and I have a chronic addiction to watching television.
Not in the casual, “I watch Netflix sometimes” way. I mean the kind that justifies two TVs in a one-bedroom apartment -- one in the living room, one in the bedroo...
A Media Merger Explained Like a Season of Reality TV
My Dear Readers,
As you know, I usually write the deep analytical pieces about the turbulent masochistic industry of media and entertainment. This is not one of those.
The Streaming Insider is a reader-supported publication. To receive ne...
The Three Biggest Blind Spots on how Hollywood mis-interprets data
It’s 2026, and this year’s content calendar reads like something most people could have predicted half a decade ago without a single proprietary dataset: Toy Story 5, a new Star Wars, another Spider-Man, another Avengers, The Devil Wears Pr...
What Six Months of Don Draper Every Night Taught Me
For the better part of this year, I watched all seven seasons of Mad Men. When I finally reached the finale, practically sobbing at the Coca-Cola commercial, I wasn’t ready to say goodbye. Six months of nightly visits from Jon Hamm’s “Don D...
HBO's Succession Was a Documentary Nobody Treated Like One
Disclaimer: This is my own opinion and observations across the entire Media industry.
We Built a Machine for Producing Meaning
The media industry has always had an unusual relationship with its own importance. Unlike most indus...
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