This Week's Insights: There is no popular culture anymore; it's fragmented away... What if the market economy has discouraged really good things?... The Met Museum records another record attendance year... It's difficult to get attention for new books... You might surprise yourself when you collect data on what you're consuming. The Day Popular Taste Died: No one genre or … [Read more...]

This week's insights: Do audiences really want to control the art?... Journalism's failing business models force reconsideration of its relationships with audience... Niche TV channels are disappearing as cable TV subscribers cut the cord... Arts for the "differently-abled." Can You Give The Audience Too Much Control? Netflix's new Bandersnatch is an adventure in which the … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: How Netflix is using viewer behavior to create movies that are watchable... A record year of worldwide movie box office... The best week of box office ever for a Broadway play. When Data Informs The Art: Did that headline make you queasy? After all, we tend to think of art as the product of inspiration, the result of artists deeply enmeshed in the act … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Are algorithms leading to worse art?... The best subscription machine we had is failing... Will listener stats kill podcasts?... The Nutcracker that ate dance... How to deal with "problematic" plays. When Algorithms Determine Our Audience: Not for the first time have people raised concerns that algorithmic selection of content for us to see narrows our … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: The myth of arts-for-all... Could we bring America together with orchestras?... TV is still Americans' primary source of entertainment... The limits of crowdfunding... Why are audiences so thoughtless? The Arts Are For Everybody? The idea that there's a "general" audience for the arts is a myth, says playwright Alana Valentine:  “Are we not … [Read more...]