It’ll all end in tiers: Latest on ‘premium vs ads’ strategy for Netflix, Disney and Spotify

The newly promoted Jack Benjamin (now senior reporter) and outgoing editor-in-chief Omar Oakes discuss a flurry of updates about streaming service user numbers and how their “premium versus ad” strategies are evolving.

They also discuss MediaSense’s latest acquisition, Spotify’s latest earnings, a Newsworks study on youth news consumption habits and more.

Listen now by hitting the play button or use the appropriate entry point into Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts:

Highlights

01:00: Takeaways from Barb’s Establishment Survey: Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+

18:15: Why media consultancy MediaSense has acquired R3

20:30: Young people actually do consume news, after all — what is the industry getting wrong?

23:10: Spotify earnings: Why profits have surged despite an advertising slowdown

28:00: A dark festive period ahead for ITV?

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