The big business of small streamers

小型流媒体的大生意

Today, Explained

2025-06-14

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Dropout is a smaller streaming platform where improv comedy is king. It might be the blueprint for the future of streaming. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Further reading: It feels like 2009 on Dropout. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout. Photo by Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • What's your favorite streaming service and would you voluntarily pay more for it?

  • Of course not!

  • Who'd want to give more money to Warner Brothers or the House of Mouse?

  • But Dropout's a different story, and Dropout is having a moment.

  • Earlier this year, one of their shows, Dimension 20,

  • hit the road and sold out Madison Square Garden.

  • If you've ever woken up on another planet or in another dimension,

  • that is truly what it felt like to be at Madison Square Garden watching Dimension 20 and having no idea what is going on.

  • With references you have never heard.

  • The big business of small streamers on Today Explained.

  • Hey there, this is Peter Kafka, the host of channels.

  • And this week I'm talking to Scott Frank,

  • the writer and director who moved from movies to Netflix,

  • which is where you can see Department Q, his newest hit.

  • And we talked about how no one knows what the future of Hollywood is going to be like,

  • except that it won't be like the past.

  • This business hasn't landed where it's going to land yet.

  • And people keep looking backwards and saying, no,

  • we just need to get movie going back to where it was.

  • That boat sailed.