Weekly Recap: Pink's Bottom Line on Media, Money and Sports
The top items and takeaways from the week
Here are the top items and takeaways from this week’s newsletter. I hope everyone has a great weekend.
MEDIA
Nielsen, the company best known for providing television ratings, will offer out-of-home tv ratings measurements beginning this month. Here’s how it could impact live sports ratings.
As Spotify grabs headlines for its music and audio subscription service, Apple Music also appears to be chugging along quite nicely.
More users worldwide downloaded TikTok, the short video social media app, than any other non-gaming app in August, according to data from Sensor Tower, an app tracking research firm. Interestingly, Zoom, the ubiquitous video meeting service, ranked second, and a Google competitor to Zoom, Google Meet, ranked sixth.
MONEY
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it has accumulated roughly 5% stakes in five large Japanese companies, and the firm said it could boost those stakes even further. Does this signal a resurgence for the overall Japanese stock market?
I am monitoring the impact of coronavirus on term life insurance rates to see if there is any significant change in how the pandemic is affecting policy prices. For now, it doesn’t appear that the pandemic is having too great of an impact, according to the Life Insurance Index from Policygenius.
WalletHub, a diversified personal finance online destination, recently released a study to determine the best and worst places to buy a home these days. Boise claimed the top spot as the best place to buy a house, according to WalletHub, with Seattle coming in second place. However, it was a different story for Miami Beach and Baltimore.
SPORTS
If you’re a baseball fan, you probably know all about Fernando Tatis, Jr., the 21 year old shortstop for the San Diego Padres. If you’ve never heard of him, you soon will.
Run differential is one of my favorite stats to monitor in all of major league baseball. Simply put, run differential is the total number of runs a team scores versus the total number of runs that same team allows. Here’s what this year’s run differential numbers are telling us.
Look for golf’s number one ranked men's player, Dustin Johnson, who has only won major tournament in his career, to win another major at next week’s US Open and to extend his recent torrid pace.
Jeremy Pink is former CEO of Broadcast Sports International and a former CNBC executive in New York, London and Singapore. He currently serves as an advisor to companies in media, sports and financial tech.
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