PinnedMichael WhalenMusic streaming isn’t “The Record Business.”Over the last 100 years in Hollywood, often 1+1 = 7. Creative people (and the executives who oversee them) have a long history of “creative…·9 min read·Apr 30, 2024----
PinnedMichael WhalenMachines Don’t Sweat:Artificial Intelligence in music is here to stay… Get used to it.·7 min read·Feb 13, 2023--1--1
Michael WhalenThe Near-Future of Prestige Television will be on Apple TV+.The current strike of Hollywood screenwriters is proof of the faulty economics of video streaming. Sadly, I predict that the strike will be…·5 min read·May 19, 2023----
Michael WhalenThe Importance of Marketing Containers (aka “Fish in a Barrel”)The age of social media is nearly 20 years old. And as producers and consumers of endless oceans of content have become evermore…·4 min read·Mar 20, 2022----
Michael WhalenThe Music Industry Sells Out…Some of the biggest artists in the history of recorded music sold their catalogs in the last 9 months. Why?·5 min read·Dec 20, 2021----
Michael WhalenThe coming implosion of the record business…After reading the title to this piece, I can hear the whispering voices of some of my recording industry colleagues dismissing out of hand…·9 min read·Sep 24, 2021--1--1
Michael WhalenIn the Absence of Value, Price matters... (5 insights about video streaming in 2021)In any business course you will ever take you will have a discussion about the definition of the word: “value”. It has been said that: “in…·4 min read·Jul 30, 2021----
Michael WhalenThe music industry in 2021. A few insights…Without out a huge preamble or some clever introduction about the sucky year that was 2020 and the hopefully less sucky year that 2021…·5 min read·Jan 1, 2021----
Michael WhalenThe new Ab-Normal: the entertainment industry after COVID.When I speak to my friends and colleagues who work in music, film, TV, dance, theatre, photography or creating live concerts and events…·8 min read·Oct 30, 2020----
Michael WhalenThe Surprising Near-Future of Television in America...Making predictions is dangerous and arrogant. Making predictions almost ensures that the future you see will never actually happen, right…·6 min read·Jul 16, 2020----
