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Streamer Report Cards, Part II: The Incumbents

An analytical assessment of the shows that Paramount+, Peacock, and Hulu need to buy and sell—before they are bought and sold, themselves.

Hulu president Joe Earley.
Hulu president Joe Earley. Photo: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for Hulu
Julia Alexander
April 25, 2023

Last week, I embarked on an important thought exercise that I often perform professionally for my clients at Parrot Analytics, where I work as the director of strategy. It’s a game I call platform chess, wherein I deduce genres that each streamer is over-indexed in, under-indexed in, and so forth. After all, we’re still in the earliest stage of the streaming age, one in which each entrant is investigating the metrics that matter most to themselves, which matter to their competitors, and how much to invest and in what genres.