Cordkillers 604: Mind the Season Gap

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of long waits between streaming seasons on audience behavior and media companies.

Long waits between streaming seasons may be helping some shows build huge return-viewing events, but they also risk training audiences to cancel between releases. Plus, Amazon backs away from Stargate, Netflix pauses Hannibal, Plex gets more social, and states may challenge a giant media merger. This week on The FULL Experience: Murder, She Wrote (718 - "Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?") Next week: Murder, She Wrote (1224 - "Death by Demographics") Subscribe, get expanded show notes, and past episodes at http://Cordkillers.com Support Cordkillers at http://Patreon.com/Cordkillers YouTube: https://youtu.be/ICsqCbwO2YA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Tom Merritt

Topics covered

• streaming seasons
• audience behavior
• media mergers
• return-viewing events
• cancellation trends

Keywords

• streaming
• audience cancellation
• media merger
• return-viewing
• Amazon
• Netflix
• Plex

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, Netflix, Plex, Stargate, Hannibal

Books & works: Murder, She Wrote

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