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Are We Destined to be Dopamine Junkies?
The Complex Drivers of Media Choices, Our Current Media Diet, and How GenAI Will Affect It
Feb 9 • Doug Shapiro
Infinite Content: Chapter 13
Culture and Society Under Content Abundance: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jan 31 • Doug Shapiro
My Base Presentation Deck - January 2026
The Next Disruption of Media—and What to Do About It
Jan 12 • Doug Shapiro
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All is Not Lost for Traditional Media
May 2, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
Quality is a Serious Problem
Jan 20, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
A False Sense of Stability
Jul 8, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
28 Days of Media Slides
Jan 7, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
Price Deflation in Media
Apr 18, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
The Relentless, Inevitable March of the Creator Economy
Dec 1, 2024 • Doug Shapiro
Infinite Content: Chapter 12
Where Value Flows Next—and Why Incumbents Aren't Necessarily Toast
Jan 4 • Doug Shapiro
One Battle After Another
Why Netflix Wants WBD So Badly and the Rising Value of Proven IP in an AI World
Dec 15, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
Infinite Content: Chapter 11
Scenario Analysis: Giving Uncertainty Some Shape
Dec 3, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
How Math Broke Media
The Underlying Logic of Media Will Change in Every Conceivable Way
Nov 25, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
Why Companies Make Obviously Sh***y Decisions
Bad Process, Bad Processing, and Bad Incentives—and the Critical Differences Between Them
Nov 19, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
Infinite Content: Chapter 10
Known Unknowns of GenAI: The Determinants of Disruption
Nov 10, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
Big Media's Structural Disadvantage
How Platforms Exploit Our Default Minds and How Traditional Media Can Fight Back
Oct 30, 2025 • Doug Shapiro
The Mediator
The Mediator
The Mediator explores the structural changes reshaping the media industry and what they mean for the media business, culture, and society. I try to get at the why, not just the what.
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