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Angel Studios co-founder on Sound of Freedom: "We spent $40 million marketing that movie"
14 lessons: How a $500 YouTube ad sold a tongue cleaner, why 17,000 fans funded The Chosen, and how Angel's 3 million paying members vote on every film…
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70% of merged Paramount-WBD EBITDA will still be TV, says Bloomberg's analyst
4 calls: The concessions Paramount agreed to instead of divesting cable, the leverage it closes at, and why the studios' box-office share fell from 30…
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"82% of all newly licensed agents in the United States quit": SERHANT's CEO on brokerage
10 lessons: Why his customer acquisition cost is zero, what the $308M house sale taught him about AI, and the housing problem he says is supply rather…
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TKO's executives on the sponsorship slowdown: "we will finish over 20% year-over-year"
8 numbers: Why the White House fight cost $30M of margin on purpose, what 70 West End and Broadway theaters are for, and the team price that set the…
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Bloomberg reporter: Paramount settled and nothing is being sold
7 arguments: what David Ellison actually conceded to California, why YouTube started punishing creators who post to Netflix, and the box-office year…
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Adam Conover: Hollywood gave YouTube 60% of television and didn't notice
15 arguments: Why he says an algorithm is a harder gatekeeper than CBS ever was, what one episode of his cable show cost, and why he gave back Sam…
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Becki DeGraw: YouTube's third co-founder lost $250M+ to one vesting clause
7 lessons: Why leaving early cost Jawed Karim four-fifths of his Google payday, and how to structure advisor equity so it isn't given away like candy
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David Perell: Hollywood will attach Brad Pitt but it will not build you a star
12 takeaways: The $150K pilot that beat the studios to 5.6M views, why ugly buildings make building expensive, and what is actually inside the new Lucas…
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JB McCuskey: Meta's $17B settlement deputized the AGs to go after YouTube and TikTok
5 takeaways: Why the court-ordered product changes matter more than the money, what he says Apple's cloud allows, and why the attorneys general act…
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Peter Hamby: Hollywood's most bankable stars now average 57.8 years old
8 takeaways: The survey question that ranks who actually sells a ticket, why 3 studios are betting on Johnny Depp anyway, and the Journal's shrug at an…
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Olivia Carville: TikTok held a safeguard back from 15M users to measure engagement
13 takeaways: Why only $12B of Meta's settlement is unconditional, the two lines from a sealed TikTok document, and the safeguards she says under 1% of…
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Ben Moore: the only real fix for social media addiction is a feed that ends
6 takeaways: Why he calls Meta's agreed remedies product specs it could have shipped years ago, what removing the algorithm would cost, and how BeReal…
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