For the past 20 years, subscription streaming has produced an outcome that still gets overlooked. The category winners weren’t the big tech giants or the major studios. In music, Spotify became the default. In premium video, Netflix did the same.

In this episode, we break down how pure-play focus, faster decision-making, and a single retention-driven scoreboard create compounding advantages that big tech’s money and bundling can’t easily copy.

CHAPTERS

01:03 Why Spotify and Netflix Succeeded

06:13 Pure-Play Edge

10:36 Speed & Ownership

14:29 Survivorship Reality

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