Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments

Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front! Roku’s Strong Quarter, Mulan’s Premium Premiere, New Hulu Menus, & More!

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Sponsors will Spend $1 Billion on Podcasts in the U.S. Next Year

What? Is this for real? Is podcasting really taking over the universe? Where are Rick and Morty to protect us? Well, at least now we know why Steven Spielberg’s Amblin’ Partners has been spending one Acme Bunch O’Bucks getting the TV series rights to so many ficpods. Whoa!

by eMarketer Editors

Podcast listenership in the US has been soaring in recent years and advertising dollars are following. Podcast ad spending is a bright spot amid lackluster digital radio spending. According to eMarketer’s latest forecast, US podcast ad spending will surpass 20% of digital radio ad spending this year and cross the $1 billion mark next year. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #108 “Medicine in Paradise”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Latest on WGAW Connect

What has our Writers Guild done for us lately?

Glad you asked because the Guild has a wonderful answer in Writers Connect, a short newsletter members get every week. (See? Another good reason to bust your butt to qualify and join.)

Twitter Celebrates WGA-ICM Agreement

After news of the agreement between WGA and ICM broke on Wednesday, there was an outpouring of support and celebration on Twitter. ICM became the second of the four largest agencies to sign a franchise agreement with the WGA, thereby clinching the sunset date on packaging for all franchised agencies. See some of the highlights. Read more >> read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – August 10, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another week of TV (and other) writing and production tips at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the  last 7 days.

They are, in order: read article