{"id":1266,"date":"2016-06-23T20:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endcrawl.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2022-05-25T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T17:41:38","slug":"film-not-disrupted-yet-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endcrawl.com\/blog\/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Film has not been Disrupted Yet, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2012, tech accelerator Ycombinator issued one of its famous \u201cRequest For Startups\u201d. It simply read: Kill Hollywood<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

There has never been a shortage of soothsayers predicting Hollywood\u2019s imminent demise. Media and filmed entertainment are perpetually \u201cnext\u201d on the software-eating menu. But for all of the gametalk, nobody seems to be moving that media disruption needle just yet.<\/p>\n

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The early 21st century has witnessed deep and secular changes to many major industries. Eric Schmidt’s How Google Works<\/a><\/em> is a victory lap among other things, but it is remarkable for one of its subtler thematic threads\u2014one that was perfectly summed up by Esko Kilpi when he wrote<\/a> that “The Internet is nothing less than an extinction-level event for the traditional firm.”<\/p>\n

Uber is taking on transportation and logistics. AirBnB is upending the hospitality business. And Facebook has the entire publishing industry quaking in its little space boots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But last I looked, we were still name-checking the same handful of major players in film and television. We have yet to see any challenger make a serious run at the studio system. So either the film and media industries are bullet-proof, or we are just lagging a little behind other industries.<\/p>\n

At the risk of giving away the ending: we’re just lagging behind a little. Like Blockbuster Video or Mike Campbell in The Sun Also Rises<\/em>, you tend to go out of business very gradually, and then all at once:<\/p>\n

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Media groups cling to aging ad sales strategies like Blockbuster once clinged to bricks and mortar.<\/p>\n

— web smith (@web) July 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n