- Ben Johnson
The Future of The Film Industry: Digital Innovation & Blockchain

In 2015 we wrote Looking Past the Headlights: the Next 10 Years in the Entertainment Industry, where we made predictions on the changes likely to affect the industry. By 2017, many of the trends we highlighted have already begun to emerge.
However, in our analysis we failed to anticipate one important and worrying new trend: the decline of the cultural relevance of movies, in response to the competition for audience attention brought forth by the flood of original content from Netflix and Amazon. According to Rotten Tomatoes' audience appreciation scores, the top shows on those platforms often significantly outperform the biggest movie releases.
