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A free and chart-filled mini-book on where we are in the Streaming Wars, have been, and will go. From the national and international best-selling author, and former streaming executive, Matthew Ball.

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Introduction to the “Streaming Wars”

The Battlefield Is Set

Three Years Into Hollywood’s Five Year Plan

The “Great Streaming Correction” (And The Next Two Years)

Wave 1: Access-Based Competition

A Quarter Century of Streaming Video

The Commodification of Access Innovations

Aligning on Streaming’s Business and Delivery Models

Wave 2: Content-Based Competition

The History of the Access-to-Content Shift in TV

How We Know We’re Late in the Content Era

What We’ve Learned About Content (Distribution)

What We’ve Learned About Content (Data)

What We’ve Learned About Content (Development and Hit Rates)

Wave 3: Platform-Based Competition

The Inevitably Profit-Poor State of Today’s Streaming Wars

The Historical Content-to-Platform Shift in Video

The Content-to-Platform Shift in the Streaming Era

The Platform Shifts That May Yet Come

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