By Entertainment Strategy Guy from The Ankler
An executive reader (i.e., a “suit”) pushed back, telling me that “a common misconception is that they don’t get residuals for streaming or that the residuals aren’t good. Neither is true.” They actually blamed these residuals for the new “un-order” trend I wrote about recently.
After looking at the data — in this case, actually researching and analyzing the WGA residuals calculations — I agree that many writers are struggling, but simply increasing streaming residuals for streaming won’t solve this problem…
…it might make it worse!