Tobias Jaeger’s writing and TV interviews on the business side of entertainment, from 2017 to 2019: box office economics, streaming budgets, media mergers and studio suppliers. Each piece keeps its original date.
Interview · Translated from German · 24 June 2019
With mega mergers like AT&T’s $85 billion bid for Time Warner and a possible Sprint–T-Mobile US deal, the question “What’s next?” was more pressing than ever. Manuel Koch of Inside Wirtschaft asked Tobias Jaeger about US and European media M&A and where it might lead.
Interview · Translated from German · 17 May 2019
Broadcasters, studios and streamers are out-spending each other to win subscribers. With the first casualties surfacing and no clear winner in sight, we look at the economics of content and why the war chests will only get bigger.
Essay · 12 September 2017
Studios have become targets of orchestrated hacks and deliberate breaches, and their risk management and governance have stepped up. Now they expect their suppliers to keep pace.
Interview · Translated from German · 30 August 2017
As one of the biggest movie franchises released its latest instalment, we looked at the economics of the Star Wars intellectual property and why global box office numbers are not always what they seem.
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