Media, entertainment, and tech in motion.
Bloom in Tech sits at the busy crossroads of entertainment, media, and technology. David Bloom mixes short analysis with industry conversations about streaming strategy, ad-supported video, creator events, Oscars campaigns, news feeds, and production tools.
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Bloom in Tech is a compact, industry-minded guide to the changing machinery behind media and entertainment. David Bloom frames each episode around a collision point: streaming meets advertising, movies meet platform strategy, creators meet live sports, or production technology meets filmmaking. The show is conversational but rarely loose. It keeps returning to the practical question of what a shift means for companies, creators, platforms, and audiences. One episode may examine how Apple TV+ uses Friday Night Baseball to step into advertising. Another may look at how Adweek thinks about podcasting as an extension of its publishing identity. Streaming is a major throughline. Bloom tracks connected TV, FAST channels, editorial placement on platform home screens, Oscar campaigns from services such as Apple TV+ and HBO Max, and the long shadow of day-and-date releases. He also follows the cultural side of platform change, including celebrity boxing, influencer events, music tie-ins, and the way young audiences treat spectacle as a blended media product. Interviews add detail. Andrew Walraven discusses Topico and a topic-centered approach to news feeds without comment noise. Neil Blomkamp talks through Demonic, volumetric capture, short films, videogames, and the creative difference between large theatrical projects and smaller online experiments. Mike Bechtel brings futurist language to corner-case problems, invention, corporate change, and the world after Covid. The show’s best moments come when Bloom connects a headline to the underlying distribution, monetization, or audience habit making it matter. It can be opinionated. It also stays grounded in the mechanics: data, experimentation, platform partnerships, pricing, promotion, and format design. Bloom in Tech is built for media professionals, tech observers, entertainment strategists, and curious listeners who want to understand why the screen economy keeps changing shape.
Made for: Bloom in Tech is for media, entertainment, advertising, and technology watchers who care about how platforms reshape culture and business. It also suits people tracking streaming, CTV, podcasting, and digital audience behavior.
What sets it apart: The show pairs timely media commentary with detailed conversations, so platform shifts are treated as business systems rather than buzz. Its range runs from Oscars and CTV placement to news-feed design, volumetric capture, and influencer fight events.
I talk with (and about) smart, innovative people and companies in tech, media, entertainment, VR/AR, games, esports, AI, blockchain and advertising. I'm a long-time journalist and former studio executive. I write regularly for Forbes, Next TV, Tubefilter, and TVRev, and consult on communications and content strategy.
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["David Bloom talks with Neil Blomkamp about Demonic, a COVID-era horror film built around volumetric capture, a game engine, and a 19- or 20-day shoot that keeps the final image in camera.", "Blomkamp says the film exists because Hollywood paused during COVID-19, and he turned a small self-financed idea into a $1.9 million project that needed four days of volumetric capture and three or four months of compute work.", "He breaks down why the movie embraces glitches, why he wanted a sense of unsettled dread, and how a priestly SWAT team and a Vatican tech-buying idea fit the story's science-fiction side.", "The conversation also covers a larger science-fiction script he has already written, his work with Godzilla Games in Kiev and Frankfurt, and his plan to let fans explore or recut Oats Studio material on Steam and in VR."]
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