Doc Distro Lit Review: Daniel Parris

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How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis

Streaming platforms have elevated documentaries to mainstream popularity. However, this paradigm shift spawned an immediate decline in documentary quality as streaming prioritizes formulaic-driven storytelling with mass appeal, ultimately diminishing the genre’s artistic and cultural value.
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The Broken Economics of Streaming Services: A Stats Explainer

Data scientist and journalist Daniel Parris describes the economics of streaming, proposing that as streaming libraries grow, the content value diminishes, and therefore streamers are left with the options of producing less or cheaper content or going under.