{"id":2178406,"date":"2025-11-27T02:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2178406"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:08:31","slug":"reach-vs-profits-streaming-black-friday-deals-suggest-entertainment-giants-still-split-on-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/reach-vs-profits-streaming-black-friday-deals-suggest-entertainment-giants-still-split-on-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reach vs. Profits: Streaming Black Friday Deals Suggest Entertainment Giants Still Split on Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s a tale as old as time \u2014 or at least as old as the streaming wars: Should the entertainment business be focused on reach and mass scale? Or should they focus on profitability, to bring back an economic model a bit closer to the glory days of cable TV?<\/p>\n

On corporate earnings calls across the sector, executives have been touting their streaming profits and planning, envious of Netflix<\/a>\u2019s margins, which hover in the mid 20 to low 30 percent range.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we\u2019re going to get there is through revenue growth and through driving operating leverage through the business,\u201d Disney CFO Hugh Johnston<\/a> told Wall Street analysts Nov. 13. \u201cWe didn\u2019t give a specific revenue guide, but our objective and our aspiration is very much to be growing the top line of that business by double digits, as we did on an apples-to-apples basis in Q4. That\u2019s what…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a tale as old as time \u2014 or at least as old as the streaming wars: Should the entertainment business be focused on reach and mass scale? Or should they focus on profitability, to bring back an economic model a bit closer to the glory days of cable TV? On corporate earnings calls across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2178407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2178406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Reach-vs-Profits-Streaming-Black-Friday-Deals-Suggest-Entertainment-Giants.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178408,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178406\/revisions\/2178408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}