Andrew deWaard

Hollowed-out in Hollywood

Feature: Why is Los Angeles’s entertainment industry in such crisis? Andrew deWaard on the shape-shifting effects of financialization and monopoly. Read on. Link in comments.

Netflix drops Warner Bros bid, clearing way for Paramount takeover Netflix's decision to back down from the bidding war clears the path for Paramount to win the takeover battle.

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

The New Private-Equity Billionaires Who Are Taking Over Wall Street Private-market institutions are taking over from old-line legacy banks. The names to watch—and the dangers to watch out for.

I spoke with Barron’s for this article on a not-at-all-alarming development:

www.barrons.com/articles/pri...

Thank you, Peter, for this engaging review. Much obliged. 🙏

chatted with danny and derek for the @amprestigepod.bsky.social podcast about Netflix and Warner Brothers and the slow decline of Hollywood and Anaconda for some reason?

The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...

grateful for this thoughtful & wide-ranging piece by Rob Arcand on the state of the financialized culture industry & what criticism of it is for, that puts Mood Machine in conversation with Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...

what would it take to reframe debates about streaming and cultural decline in marxist terms? for @nplusonemag.com i tried to think through the current crisis (AI! VC! A24!) and what a newly militant labor movement could mean for the culture industries www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

thanks to @nplusonemag.com and @robarcand.bsky.social for this excellent essay on my book, as well as Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social, a book I absolutely love

A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream The proposed Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger would concentrate oversight of two prominent newsrooms – CNN and CBS – under one owner with strong ties to Donald Trump.

"This is the “Hungarian model” on speed.Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s authoritarian leader, spent a decade asserting increasing control over that nation’s media.

The Trump administration is poised to accomplish the same in less than a year – and at greater scale."

theconversation.com/a-paramount-...

💬 How do you think art can reveal the absurdities of everyday systems? Thankfully on 'We Disrupt This Broadcast,' we have Julio Torres to share his insights, along with @adewaard.bsky.social to contextualize the cultural cost of art.

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💡 Author @adewaard.bsky.social joins We Disrupt This Broadcast to explore why disrupting the financialization of media is essential for empowering creative workers. 💥

💬 How do you think capitalism shapes the art and media we consume? Share your thoughts: open.spotify.com/episode/4G0b...

💬 How do you think art can reveal the absurdities of everyday systems? Thankfully on 'We Disrupt This Broadcast,' we have Julio Torres to share his insights, along with @adewaard.bsky.social to contextualize the cultural cost of art.

Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...

We Disrupt This Broadcast - The Peabody Awards Drawing from the interviews conducted during the Peabody Awards ceremony, special events, and other conversations with honorees, “Stories that Matter: The Peabody Awards Podcast” is a series created a...

Plus, joining us is @adewaard.bsky.social, author of 'Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture,' who will dive into the cultural costs and implications of "financialization."

Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking conversation and follow our podcast!
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🚨 TOMORROW –– #newepisodealert🚨

Get ready for an exciting new podcast episode of #WeDisruptThisBroadcast! We’re thrilled to welcome the brilliantly creative Julio Torres as our featured guest. 🙌

#Fantasmas #PeabodyWinner #StoriesThatMatter 👇

Diving back into media industries work this month and I’m absolutely blown away by @adewaard.bsky.social’s Derivative Media (2024).

His 2020 piece has been on my mind for years and the book is bigger, better and bolder.

If you’re a media industries, cultural studies or coms reader, check it out!

I recently spoke about Music In Orbit with @corybarker.bsky.social for the New Books Network podcast. We talked about the turn to subscription listening, Liberty Media's growing power in the media industries, and music programming in the streaming era. Listen here

newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit

Betty (skatepark), Shoresy (hockey rink), Baskets (rodeo), Slings & Arrows (theater), Always Sunny (bar), Frank's Place (restaurant), Detroiters (workplace but plenty bar/Detroit/community), Lodge 49, Jackass (do semi-public settingS count?), Letterkenny? Reservation Dogs? Muppet Show?

this is happening in a few hours!

Thanks to @carlzoilus.bsky.social @eweisbard.bsky.social @alyxvesey.bsky.social & @erazlogo.bsky.social for this great chat with me, @lizpelly.bsky.social & @brianfauteux.bsky.social
-- video now available:

youtu.be/9_Q68lIQ00k?...

I’m very excited to give a book talk for Derivative Media at San Diego Central Library on May 6 at 6:30pm. Registration encouraged. Refreshments served!

sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...

How Wall Street Devours Music | Andrew deWaard YouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta

Last week, @adewaard.bsky.social visited the Department of Music at the University of Alberta to talk about his new book, Derivative Media, for the Questions About Music colloquium series. The conversation can still be watched here: www.youtube.com/live/gFwh9Nz...

Thanks Dan! 🙏

extremely excited for this event with @annakornbluh.bsky.social in chicago. maybe some folks from #SCMS will still be in town?

I had a great chat with Liz and Brian about the music industry, check out the video here. Thanks PMBIP!

The Popular Music Books series returns today (Tues), 5 pm ET, w/ a round on 21st-c music economics: Liz Pelly's streaming crit Mood Machine; Andrew deWaard's finance salvo Derivative Media; & Brian Fauteux's satellite investigation, Music in Orbit. To join: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Popular Music Books in Process Series / Tues March 18 5pm ET / Liz Pelly, Andrew deWaard, and Brian Fauteux

"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"

To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social.

Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30

www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

honoured to have my book reviewed alongside the excellent "Immediacy" by @annakornbluh.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social. thank you @ryanboyd.bsky.social