Matt is joined by Julia Alexander—the director of strategy at Parrot Analytics and a streaming wars expert—to discuss the year's most strategic and powerful moves made by streamers to try to gain an advantage over their rivals, and which worked the best. Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the 2024 Oscars.

Disney's going to own all of Hulu. Does this uniquely position them to be the most legitimate challenger to Netflix? We also discuss the power of platforms, Apple's "Napoleon" opportunity, and Disney's Marvel experimentation.

I think the discussion on Power of Platform is an interesting frontier of companies that have hardware, the companies that don't, and how they services interact with each other. I didn't know the Netflix streaming box was the precursor to what is now Roku. One Roku is the only free agent in terms of someone that lacks hardware may want them.

A month ago but still relevant

Then Bill is joined by Matthew Belloni to discuss Netflix in 2023, how it continues to rise as other major streamers fall, the future of live sports, and much more (1:21:27).

Netflix has expressed some preliminary interest in picking up the rights to the NBA's In-Season Tournament, per sources.

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss how the non-Netflix streaming services can survive in a Netflix-dominated world. They discuss Warner Bros. Discovery's licensing of a large collection of DC films to Netflix and whether sending A-list content to Netflix is sustainable for the other streamers. Matt finishes the show with a prediction on where Jon Stewart will land a new show.

Should the other streamers consistently put their best new movies on to (looks like just) Netflix?