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Arts · Film
Franchise Poison: What Star Risk Costs an IP
Pokémon's $91B and a six-film Leto slate (0.65x–2.04x) show why merchandise-driven IP is insulated from star risk that concentrated vehicles carry alone.
Michael Jackson and the Cost of Being the Product
Narrative Economics: The Field Guide Culture Workers Needed
Playboy After Hef: What Happens When the Brand Outlives the House
Sports · Football
Institutional Winning: What Transfers When a Dynasty Is a System, Not a Star
Yankees, Patriots, Celtics, Cowboys: a synthesis of Artometrics' sports-dynasty reports asks what transfers when winning is a system, not a roster.
Editor's picks
Arts · Film
The Protection Threshold: When Flops End Hollywood's Silence
Sports · Baseball
$3.9bn for Zero Championships: Inside the Padres' Record Sale
Sports · Baseball
$3.9 Billion Buys the Padres—But Not a Championship Blueprint
Humanities · Psychology
Beyoncé and the Cost of Controlling the House
Arts · Fashion
A ¥10.3 million trademark award in China turned a legal win into a cultural reckoning
Top stories
Arts · Film
Netflix Holds 4,800 Titles While Marketing 40: What Catalog Data Shows About Platform Inventory
Public streaming inventories reveal 90% of titles generate less than 1% of engagement while platforms market the same 50 properties quarterly.
Humanities · Sociology
Oscars vs Grammys: How Award Shows Build Prestige
How Oscars, Grammys, and Nobels manufacture legitimacy differently.
Civics · Politics
California leads in GDP and tech, Texas in energy and migration—7 dimensions of the most-compared state rivalry
California scores 96 on GDP, 94 on tech; Texas scores 96 on energy, 91 on migration attention.
Sports · Basketball
18 NBA titles have turned the Celtics into a franchise judged against its own history
18 NBA championships—11 in the Russell era alone—mean every Boston season is compared to Bill Russell and Larry Bird, not to Miami or Milwaukee.
Civics · Economics
What does a city export? A data framework for economic identity
1,667 subnational regions and 1,100+ datasets define the economic signature of cities — exports, housing, transit, culture, and historical infrastructure.
Sports · Football
Dallas Cowboys carry $10B franchise value through 29-year championship drought
Dallas holds $10B+ in franchise value but hasn't won an NFC championship in 29 years—a widening gap between attention and playoff output.
Civics · Economics
Film and music lead cultural export scales; South Korea's soft-power index rose 70 points since 1990
Film scores 91 on exportability, music 88.
Sports · Baseball
The Dodgers won 111 games in 2022—and still needed two titles to prove the machine works
Twelve straight playoff trips, eight championships, and 32 years between rings reveal how payroll and depth buy access—but not closure.