Tech “Death Stars” and “Horsemen of the Streaming Apocalypse”: Evan Shapiro Says Media Giants Can Not Just Survive But Thrive — If They Change

Evan Shapiro entertained, shocked and awed an industry crowd in Madrid this week. The former top executive at the likes of Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Participant Media, as well as producer (Portlandia, Brick City), now calls himself a “media universe cartographer” and shares graphics, charts and unconventional thoughts on such platforms as his Substack newsletter “Media War & Peace: Reports from the War for Our Attention.”

And he reflected on the current — and future — state of media and the key role of Ibero-American markets during a keynote appearance at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, following a keynote appearance from Spanish actress and director Paz Vega.

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Among the themes he touched on was the financial and market power of the six technology “Death Stars,” as he calls them, that are each worth more than $1 trillion in market value — namely

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