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“It’s not your mother’s media anymore,” Barry Diller declared on Thursday.

The IAC/InterActiveCorp chairman said Amazon’s snagging Woody Allen for a original TV series is a real game changer.

“Amazon is not doing this to benefit advertisers,” Diller said during a TV interview. “The issue for them is do they think [retaining of Allen] enhances and increases subscriptions to Prime into their ecosystem.”

Prime, the $99 a year Amazon product that includes unlimited free shipping an all-you-can-eat movie streaming, isn’t just a new Hollywood business model, Diller said.

It blows the traditional model away, he told a CNBC interviewer.

The traditional model may not be long for the world, anyway, as Diller contends the advertising shift to digital and mobile outlets is sapping pricing power from what he called “the closed system.”

As for the Sony hacking case, Diller considered it a worthy tutorial about e-mail communiques — one that motivated him to riff on The Post’s current ad campaign. “If you don’t want it on Page Six,” Diller said, “don’t do it.”

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