Disney

The threads it sat in

The idea that connected each episode's stories, latest first.

• Thu 8 Oct 2026Founders win when the brand is the biography
• Thu 24 Sep 2026Ordinary objects demand cultural status. Every category is fashion now
• Thu 17 Sep 2026Identity vacuums fill fast. Capital decides who fills them
• Wed 16 Sep 2026Creators seized the institutions. Institutions let them in
• Sun 16 Aug 2026Objects replaced media. Distribution just changed hands
• Mon 20 Jul 2026Transparency became compulsory. Luxury forgot to prepare

Every episode

• Thu 8 Oct 2026 · Ep 222Disney is moving creators from marketing budgets into development slatesDisney is turning creator relationships into development pipelines for IP rather than lines in a marketing budget.Via The Ankler · Music and Entertainment
• Thu 24 Sep 2026 · Ep 212Meta's consumer VR glasses arrive at thirteen hundred dollars with Disney and hologram calls built in.A price point and a cultural partner are what tend to move a category from early adopters to the early majority.Via Hypebeast · Tech and Digital
• Thu 17 Sep 2026 · Ep 205Disney is moving aggressively into podcasting with genre-specific deals, not generalist acquisitions.Disney's genre-specific podcast deals push branded audio towards specificity, as generic formats meet big studio competition.Via The Ankler · Music and Entertainment
• Wed 16 Sep 2026 · Ep 204Netflix, Disney and Paramount wrestle with AI that can make production calls without sign-offVia The Ankler · Music and Entertainment
• Sun 16 Aug 2026 · Ep 173Disney's D23 shows IP as physical real estate, with theme parks as flagship stores.Entertainment IP is increasingly valued by its power to anchor a place, season or live event rather than by licensing revenue.Via Variety · Music and Entertainment
• Mon 20 Jul 2026 · Ep 146Disney is building a free ad-supported tier.Via Hypebeast · Tech and Digital
• Tue 7 Jul 2026 · Ep 133Sky buys ITV for £1.6 billion. British broadcasting just consolidated around two players.Via South China Morning Post · Music and Entertainment
• Sun 31 May 2026 · Ep 96Mentioned in the audioMentioned in the audio
• Mon 13 Apr 2026 · Ep 48Epic Games is building a Disney extraction shooter despite 1,000 recent layoffs.Via Hypebeast · Music and Entertainment
• Sat 21 Mar 2026 · Ep 25Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robotVia TechCrunch · Tech and Digital
• Tue 17 Mar 2026 · Ep 21Disney built an Olaf robot using reinforcement learning for Disneyland ParisVia TechRadar · Music and Entertainment
• Mon 16 Mar 2026 · Ep 20Hollywood studios skipped Oscar ad buys while Netflix collected five trophiesVia The Ankler · Music and Entertainment
• Sun 15 Mar 2026 · Ep 19Disney+ launches Verts, a TikTok-style feed to help viewers choose what to watchVia Design Taxi · Music and Entertainment

How we count: an episode counts once for Disney when Disney is the subject of a headline or story title, or is one of the names the episode covers and is named in a story, in the thread that connects the stories or in the audio. Being cited as a source does not count.