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What Exactly Does an Influencer Do?

Thus far, it seems like no one has a clear answer as to what an influencer actually does. However, there are a few things that we do know about them. (…)

By |March 25th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Football in England is a Losing Proposition

Back again to talk about football (soccer), but this time it’s about the English clubs. On February 29, the Water Cooler reported that most of Italy’s major football Serie A (…)

By |March 21st, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Feldman’s NATPE Vets Met in L.A.

On March 14, 2024, 36 film and TV executives — all NATPE veterans — met for lunch at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, California. The (…)

By |March 19th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|5 Comments

Social Media Sites are Publishers, Not Messengers

By Dom Serafini

Justice Samuel Alito summarized the Social Media position before the U.S. Supreme Court (here paraphrased): “You say it’s like the Miami Herald (or any other newspaper), and the (…)

By |March 18th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road to MIPTV 2024

All signs point to renewed vigor for markets leading up to and following MIPTV. It all started with the two Miami TV trade shows (NATPE and Content Americas, with a (…)

By |March 14th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Hollywood Braces for “Below the Line” Strike

By Mike Reynolds

Hollywood seems to like sequels on small and large screens, but 2024 may see a very different kind of sequel — and not a very pleasant one, at (…)

By |March 11th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

NATPE to Take Realscreen on a Date in February

The official news came out on Tuesday, March 5, 2024: “The 2025 editions of Realscreen Summit and NATPE Global will co-locate at the InterContinental Miami hotel. Spanning the week of (…)

By |March 7th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The EV Fiasco Was Predictable: A Cautionary Tale for Streamers

By Dom Serafini

In September 2022, a year before U.S. car executives were looking to cash in on their Electric Vehicle (EV) bets, being a so-called “know-it-all,” I wrote for a (…)

By |March 4th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Major Italian Football League in the Red Sea

If sports TV channels in the U.S. are reportedly in troubled waters, in Italy, football clubs are the ones drowning in the Red Sea. Financial losses are engulfing the Serie (…)

By |February 29th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

The Globes’ Voting Process Loses its Opaqueness

By Mike Reynolds

A return of the televised Golden Globe Awards show from Hollywood in January 2024 had many people wondering if the elimination of the organizer, the former Hollywood Foreign (…)

By |February 26th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments