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Friday Mailing: Hollywood's Future & The Top 0.1% Earners on YouTube
I am traveling today so this email will be short.
First, I have gotten good feedback on Wednesday's essay, "The Linklater Problem". It is a longer essay that's intended to provoke discussion, and it will make for a good, short weekend read.
Second, some housekeeping: My predictions for 2023 will be published in my monthly opinion essay/"column" for The Information next week, and we're aiming for Wednesday.
Next week will be the last three mailings of 2022. As per usual, if anything "seismic" related to any of the Four Trends happens over the holidays, then I will write about it.
For these three mailings, I plan to do the following:
- Monday: Revisit my Predictions for 2022 from last December
- Wednesday: A summary of lessons from the Four Trends of Q4 2022, and
- Friday: Some key trends I'm considering for Q1 2023.
Key Takeaway
YouTube creators "would make Walt Disney proud" with their flywheel business models. And YouTube is opening the black to make it easier to understand why.
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Total time reading: 3 minutes
Jason Kilar's WSJ Opinion Essay
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