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"Is it that they’re afraid that people — investors in particular — will find out just how small the audience is for many of these shows, and what a lousy business model streaming has turned out to be? I don’t know, but as more and more streamers introduce ad-supported subscription tiers, it feels like those numbers will have to start coming out, anyway."

I think so—and I'm not as certain the numbers will come out even with the introduction of ad-supported tiers, because people who have analyzed accessible data on digital advertising think it's replete with fraud and gamed numbers and headed for a pop of a bubble (someday). Former Google employee Tim Hwang has been sounding the alarm on it:

https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/

Estimates for how much of advertising money spent is wasted due to fraudulent or fake adviews hover between 25-50% or higher. So my expectation is that even as ad tiers proliferate, we won't get *real* numbers until the whole house of cards that is digital advertising collapses.

I'm pumped to finally see MOONLIGHTING! During undergrad we watched a couple of episodes, but we only had access to those because my prof owned the series DVD set which was already out of print by that time.

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