Music streaming isn’t “The Record Business.” Video streaming isn’t “Hollywood.” Time to think differently…

Michael Whalen
9 min readApr 30, 2024

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 accounting”, mishandling money and said simply, bad mathematics. But in a business where money used to flow in predictably from known sources on a year by year basis, now…

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Michael Whalen

Emmy® Award-winning composer, record company executive, copyright expert, dad, dog owner and CrossFit newbie