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Sep 24, 2026
Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros Discovery deal analysis; RTS chief Sophie Jones talks tumultuous times; Ed Simpson on launching creator-focused Wonderloom Media
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46:22Jordan PintoCORRESPONDENT
From an investment perspective, is a faceless channel slightly preferable and a slightly secure long-term... investment? It all depends
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46:30Ed SimpsonGUEST
on who's underwriting and for what you're underwriting and the price you pay for a business.
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46:36Ed SimpsonGUEST
So, you know, if you believe that the creator is going to be around for the next 30, 40, 50 years, and you believe that you can put in adequate succession planning, by the way, succession planning happens all the time in content.
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46:48Ed SimpsonGUEST
If you look at the late night talk show hosts, they have succession planning over, you know, long periods of time.
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46:55Ed SimpsonGUEST
And we've seen that be very successful all the way up through to, you know, the Jimmy Kimmel's of today.
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47:01Ed SimpsonGUEST
We see it in real housewives type franchises where you have succession planning and you roll in new characters and roll out new characters.
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47:09Ed SimpsonGUEST
But really for YouTube and for creator led businesses, the marathon is to scale at least.
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57:48Jordan PintoCORRESPONDENT
But Are we going to see a complete blending of these two worlds? Are we going to see blending kind of on the periphery?