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Happy Holidays!

Andrew

Predictions for 2022

As I wrote on Monday, the biggest – and least discussed – lesson was the pull-forward impact of the pandemic, or "a large and unsustainable boost of new users".

In terms of predictions for 2022, the pull-forward impact has effectively shattered and fragmented the streaming growth narrative.

Meaning, what happens next in the post-”streaming wars” convergence of legacy media, streaming, gaming, audio, e-commerce, and the creator economy will no longer have the convenient macro lens of the "streaming wars".

In turn, this means the drivers of growth – arguably the most valuable lenses/variables to investors and executives – are harder to define because they have evolved from a focus on content spend to a focus on alternative business models (e.g, creator economy, bundling with gaming and/or music).

So, realistically speaking, 2022 seems like a crapshoot to predict because there are so many moving pieces. This mailing may be, at best, a monkey throwing darts trying to beat the market in 2022.

That said, I fared quite well with my predictions in 2020 and 2021, and so here are my predictions for 2022...