The FASTMaster
Gavin BridgeThe home of the FAST industry's favorite analyst
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Why It's Time to Kill the FAST EPG
Every major FAST service greets every viewer the same way: an electronic program guide with hundreds of channels stacked into an endless wall. A 19-year-old, a 35-year-old, and a 68-year-old all land on the same grid — and only one of them...
The Format Tax
In Amagi’s last Airtime Report, metadata kept surfacing as the quiet protagonist. Asked where AI could unlock the most value across media operations, leaders put metadata generation and enrichment at the very top of the list. In the same ed...
The Metadata Reckoning: Streaming's Most Overlooked Cost Center
For years, metadata was the plumbing of streaming — the genres, ratings, synopses, and thumbnails nobody thought about until something broke. That era is over. In a market where discovery, ad revenue, and platform placement are increasingly...
June's FAST Analysis: Prime Adds a Local News Limit
The headline number says the US FAST market lost 5.0% of its channels between March and June — 1,526 left standing in June, down from the count a quarter earlier. Read that line and you’d assume the bundle is contracting. It isn’t. Strip ou...
From Theory to Channel: How Bikini Lifestyle TV Is Quietly Proving the FAST Opportunity Nobody Wanted to Talk About
About two years ago, I published an analysis that raised a few eyebrows. Drawing on the FASTMaster FAST Landscape Study — a survey of 3,003 US adults aged 18-64 — I made the case that lifestyle content adjacent to the adult entertainment wo...
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