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Lessons From Hollywood’s Best Year Since 2019

Bloomberg Technology Sunday 23 August 2026, 22:00 UTC By Lucas Shaw 1 min read
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Eight Lessons from Hollywood’s Best Year Since The Pandemic Despite all the doom and gloom about runaway production and consolidation, Hollywood is having its best year since the pandemic. Its streaming services are turning a profit. Live sports are setting ratings records.

Eight Lessons from Hollywood’s Best Year Since The Pandemic Despite all the doom and gloom about runaway production and consolidation, Hollywood is having its best year since the pandemic. Its streaming services are turning a profit. Live sports are setting ratings records. And the movie business, yes the movie business, is having a banner year. We’re going to dive into the lessons from the year in movies shortly, but first a little update on Wednesday’s newsletter about YouTube and Netflix. We reported that YouTube is offering creators money to upload their videos exclusively to the video site for a period of time (and turn down money from Netflix). We can identify a few of the prominent creators talking to YouTube about these deals. They are Cleo Abram, Jesser and Michelle Khare. Representatives for all three either declined to comment or didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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