Evan Shapiro entertained, shocked and awed an trade crowd in Madrid this week. The previous high govt on the likes of Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Participant Media, in addition to producer ( Portlandia , Brick Metropolis ), now calls himself a “media universe cartographer” and shares graphics, charts and unconventional ideas on such platforms as his Substack publication “Media Conflict & Peace: Reviews from the Conflict for Our Consideration.” And he mirrored on the present — and future — state of media and the important thing function of Ibero-American markets throughout a keynote look at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, following a keynote look from Spanish actress and director Paz Vega.
Among the many themes he touched on was the monetary and market energy of the six expertise “Dying Stars,” as he calls them, which might be every price greater than $1 trillion in market worth — particularly Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia — and why streaming has remained a troublesome enterprise. When Disney determined to push into streaming, “in pursuit of Netflix and its flawed ad-free enterprise mannequin, we left behind the period the place media was in management and moved into the user-centric period,” he advised Iberseries. The remainder of Hollywood giants chased behind.
“All of the horsemen of the streaming apocalypse adopted with out actually analyzing what would occur by pursuing the direct-to-consumer mannequin,” Shapiro.