TURN PLATFORM DATA INTO OPERATING CLARITY
See where the value is created, where the picture is distorted, and what needs to change.
Who We Help
Headline metrics are easy to read. What’s underneath them often is not.
The content may be performing, but audience behavior, distribution, and revenue aren’t in sync.
What looks like growth in one area of the business can conceal weakness somewhere else. Expand to a new platform, and it starts over.
How We Work
DIAGNOSE
Separate signal from noise to uncover the operating reality
SOLVE
Decisions that translate into measurable business outcomes.
SUPPORT
Keep the work moving as decisions evolve and compound.
POV
Kids All the Way Down exposes how digital platforms use signals like watch time, repetition, device type and content choices to predict what users will do next — and what happens when those signals suggest a child may be watching. Moving from the family room to platform design, child-safety law, schools, advertisers and regulators, the book asks a pressing question: When platforms can foresee the risk and already possess the tools to reduce it, where does responsibility belong?
No One Planned This examines how platforms, creators, algorithms, and audiences quietly rewrote the media business. It provides the framework behind distllr's approach to audience, content, distribution, and revenue, and why operating decisions must evolve with them.
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The Creator Economy's Real Risk Isn't the Money. It's the Math.
Fox, Amazon, and Meta are all betting big on creators this year. Most of them are betting on people, not categories… MORE
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There Will Be IP
In December, I wrote that IP was becoming a form of capital. The occasion was the possible sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, but the sale itself was almost beside the point. Everyone was focused on who might… MORE
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There's a Great Future In Creators. Think About It.
Every platform has a creator exec. Every deck has a creator slide. The vocabulary has shifted fast, and the business… MORE
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MORE of Our Thinking
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