The Medium from Andrew Rosen

The Medium from Andrew Rosen

Runway vs. Unreal Engine 5: Visual Parity Without Economic Parity
Generative AI can now match gaming visuals. It cannot match gaming's business model—and that gap defines the entertainment industry's dilemma.
Seedance Proves Generative AI Must Become Gaming
Hollywood is fighting with cease-and-desist letters. The real fight is over who builds the walls first.
Hollywood vs. Seedance: The Wrong Fight
Cease-and-desist letters treat Seedance's emergence as a copyright problem. It is a business model problem—and Hollywood is not ready.
The "Wow" of Seedance 2.0 Is Not A Business
ByteDance's new AI video model produces Hollywood moments in seconds. Netflix will not license them. YouTube will demonetize them. The best storytellers…
Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Content— Pick One. Pick Faster.
Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0 launched days apart—delivering faster and better generative AI video. Hollywood is focused on cheaper. That is a compelling…
Svedka’s Generative AI Super Bowl Ad: Who Captures the Value?
Three lessons from the first AI-generated Super Bowl commercial—and why the savings have not arrived yet.
Re-Imagineering Disney's Flywheel
The content business is down 34%. Parks carry the profits. D'Amaro's job is building the database-driven flywheel nobody at Disney wants.
Hollywood Makes A Splash In AI Storytelling, And It's Branded Content
Darren Aronofsky's new series has Google, Salesforce and Time Studios behind it. Here's why that changes nothing for independent AI creators.

January 2026

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