New Book | STREAMING WARS: How Getting Everything We Want Changed Entertainment Forever | Journalist Charlotte Henry Explains How Streaming Changed Entertainment Forever | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

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New Book | STREAMING WARS: How Getting Everything We Want Changed Entertainment Forever | Journalist Charlotte Henry Explains How Streaming Changed Entertainment Forever | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

____________Guests:

Charlotte Henry
Author, journalist, broadcaster who created and runs The Addition newsletter looking at the crossover between media and tech.
The Media Society https://theaddition.substack.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotteahenry/

____________Short Introduction 
Journalist Charlotte Henry reveals how streaming transformed entertainment in her new book "Streaming Wars: How Getting Everything We Want Changed Entertainment Forever." From Netflix's rise to the 2023 Hollywood strikes, she examines how we consume media, express ourselves, and the surprising return to "old-fashioned" weekly releases in our Hybrid Analog Digital Society.

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We used to learn who someone was by looking at their record collection. Walk into their home, scan the vinyl on the shelves, and you'd know—this person loves Metallica, that person's into jazz, someone else collected every Beatles album ever pressed. Media was how we expressed ourselves, how we told our story without saying a word.

That's gone now. And we might not have noticed it disappearing.

Charlotte Henry, a London-based journalist and author of "Streaming Wars: How Getting Everything We Want Changed Entertainment Forever," sat down with me to discuss something most of us experience daily but rarely examine deeply: how streaming has fundamentally altered not just entertainment, but how we relate to media and each other.

"You can't pop over to someone's house after a first date and see their Spotify playlist," Charlotte pointed out. She's right—you can't browse someone's Netflix queue the way you could their DVD collection, can't judge their Kindle library the way you could scan their bookshelf. We've lost that intimate form of self-expression, that casual cultural reveal that came from physical media.

But Charlotte's book isn't a nostalgic lament. It's something far more valuable: a snapshot of this exact moment in media history, a line in the sand marking where we are before everything changes again. And in technology and media, change is the only constant.

Her starting point is deliberate—the 2023 Hollywood strikes. Not the beginning of streaming's story, but perhaps its most symbolic moment. Writers, actors, costume designers, transportation crews, everyone who keeps Hollywood running stood up and said: this isn't working. The frustrations that exploded that summer had been building for years, all stemming from how streaming fundamentally disrupted the entertainment economy.

My wife works in Hollywood's costume department. She lived through those strikes, felt the direct impact of an industry transformed. The changes Charlotte documents aren't abstract—they're affecting real careers, real livelihoods, real creative work.

What struck me most about our conversation was how Charlotte brings together all of streaming—not just Netflix and Disney+, but Twitch, Spotify, Apple Music, the specialized services for heavy metal or horror movies, the entire ecosystem of on-demand media. No one had told this complete story before, and it needed telling precisely because it's changing so rapidly.

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