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Puri: Netflix's expansion into producing mobile games will not succeed
“The one that I don't believe in is Netflix is doing games. I don't know if you've ever seen, like, they have a games thing in, like, there's a trivia game you can play in Netflix, but also if you go to the App Store and search Netflix as the game producer, the…”
TKO Group could double media rights revenues in upcoming streaming renewals
“And the media rights for both of these are coming up this year and next. And so they have a chance to renegotiate and basically double what they're getting paid for by all the streaming companies by Netflix and by Amazon and ESPN and all the companies that wan…”
Minhaj: Direct-to-consumer comedy specials fail to acquire new fans without cultural outrage
“Because it was just a closed network between him and his direct fans, people couldn't get outraged about it, they couldn't write about it, which would then get you to, it would titillate you, and you'd be like, I'm gonna watch it. Which would then get you to w…”
Puri: Jerry Seinfeld is the first and only billionaire comedian
“He's the first and only billionaire comedian, mostly because of Seinfeld the show, but also like, you know, comedians in cars doing coffee. He sold for like a hundred million dollars. Like he's been touring for a long time. Netflix picked it up for a hundred m…”
Puri: Early creators should build a high-quality 'binge bank'
“So a binge bank is like your own personal Netflix binge worthy show. It's an hour or two of your content that if somebody was interested, they could go click the button, consume it and be like, man, I'm a huge fan of this person. That's the goal.”
Puri: Businesses will increasingly use standalone entertainment as customer acquisition
“You're just going to keep seeing examples of this content market fit happening where people can figure out a way to make really juicy standalone entertainment on its own that is going to then inherently market you and your business.”
Puri: Dave Chappelle's 'Unforgiven' is the most brilliant PR example ever
“I think it is the most brilliant, like example of PR or like a written story that I have ever seen the way, by the end of that thing, you're like, I will delete Netflix if they don't take the show off.”
Netflix and Amazon explored a show about Nick Gray's Tokyo blind date
“He has Netflix and Amazon reaching out to him about a show for this.”
WWE secured a 10-year, $5B streaming deal with Netflix
“WWE just cut off a 10 year, five billion dollar deal with Netflix just for one of their shows, which is kind of insane. It's going to go from USA Network To Netflix.”
Puri: A creator-owned streaming platform will emerge in the entertainment sector
“Somebody's going to do this. I don't know if it's in comedy or if it's in some other music or something.”
Puri: UnitedHealth stock outperformed Amazon and Google after Obamacare passed
“Oh, you know, like, as the, as Obamacare kicked in, the stock price went from, like, 24 dollars a share to 400 dollars a share now. And so you know, that was a better investment than Amazon, Google, Netflix, whatever, during the same period of time because the…”
Smith: Companies Would Pay for Competitor Job Posting Intelligence
“I also think that companies would pay for this, right? As in like, Companies that have competitors want to know what their competitors are doing, and so, like, we're launching something at HubSpot soon, and I've already gotten an email from someone who works a…”