Gen Z filmmaking may end up being one of the most important cultural shifts in modern entertainment, not because young creators are trying to restore the past, but because they are unintentionally recreating some of the same conditions that once gave Hollywood a creative rebirth. For the past several years, the entertainment industry has been […]
For years, studios treated mobile behavior as something adjacent to the business rather than central to it. Phones were where trailers lived, where marketing happened, where “awareness” was built — but not where the real experience began. That experience was still imagined as cinematic, lean-back, and intentional: a viewer on a couch, remote in hand, […]
The entertainment industry in 2026 is not collapsing—but it is clearly resetting. After years of expansion fueled by streaming competition, easy capital, and volume-driven growth, the entertainment industry in 2026 is now operating under tighter financial discipline. Budgets are shrinking, output is slowing, and efficiency has become just as important as creativity. What follows is […]
The Radford Studio Center is currently in foreclosure. I never expected to write that sentence about a place filled with early career memories—not just of soundstages and shows, but of how the television industry actually works. Long before streaming wars, shrinking episode orders, and the shifts I’ve written about in the future of the entertainment […]
Before brands openly talked about becoming entertainment companies, early experiments quietly hinted at where media was headed. One of the most overlooked examples of a branded entertainment web series was In the Motherhood, a comedy series that began online in the late 2000s. From the start, it was conceived as a branded entertainment project. While […]
Brands expanding into entertainment is no longer a theoretical idea. Instead, it has become a practical response to how culture now works. In earlier articles, I’ve explored how brands are no longer satisfied with simply advertising inside Hollywood. Rather than sitting on the sidelines, they want to operate within the same cultural ecosystem. As a […]
Watching the Hollywood Creator Economy Chase the Audience The Hollywood creator economy is reshaping how entertainment is made, discovered, and scaled. For years, I’ve watched Hollywood try to move into the digital age—not just with marketing campaigns or social clips, but with real structural change. Today, audiences don’t begin their entertainment journey with television or […]
This article is Part 2 of a two-part series exploring the film and television production slowdown and where the industry is rebuilding. If Part 1 explains why production slowed down, Part 2 focuses on how the film and television industry rebuilding phase is already taking shape beneath the surface. While some parts of the industry […]
I entered the entertainment industry at a time when the film and television production slowdown we’re seeing today would have been hard to imagine. Over the years, I’ve worked on network dramas like Lost and Desperate Housewives, moved through reality and game television, contributed to animated projects, and more recently worked on shows such as […]
For most of my life, the future of the entertainment industry has been framed around one core idea: scale. Bigger audiences, bigger budgets, bigger openings, and bigger platforms were treated as the ultimate markers of success. If something didn’t scale globally, it was often dismissed as niche or temporary—useful only as a stepping stone toward […]