Quibi, a new streaming service focused on premium short form content, was launched in April 2020 during a worldwide pandemic. Between Co-founders Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Chairman of Walt Disney Studios and Meg Whitman, former CEO of HP, they had almost $2 billion in funding, the support of major Hollywood studios and tons of A-list celebrity clout. But even with all of that, Quibi was dead on arrival, folding just after just six months. Get the dirt on Episode 22 of The Great Fail.
Episode Sources:
11 reasons why Quibi crashed and burned in less than a year
Why Quibi Failed: 5 Reasons the Short-Form Streamer Sank So Fast
A look at why Quibi failed so soon after launching
Quibi Was Supposed to Revolutionize Hollywood. Here’s Why It Failed.
Quibi to Shut Down — Here’s What Went Wrong
The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75bn Netflix rival crash so fast?
Why Quibi did in fact fail from ‘lack of trying’
Why Quibi Failed After Just 6 Months
Quibi Blames Failures on Coronavirus, Because Why Not?
Quibi shuts down as Hollywood tries to pinpoint what went wrong
Goodbye, Quibi: Short-Form Content Platform Is Shutting Down
JEFFREY KATZENBERG’S $1.7B QUIBI FAIL: A CASE STUDY IN EGOTISTICAL LEADERSHIP
Gone in a Quibi: A case for anthropology in business?
In 3 Words, Quibi’s Co-Founder Shows Entrepreneurs How to Handle Failure
Quibi, the billion-dollar failure
Quibi’s top executives are ready to blame themselves, not just the pandemic, for Quibi failing
“A Bottomless Need to Win”: How Quibi’s Implosion Shapes Katzenberg’s Legacy and Future
Quibi: The Fatal Miscalculation That Doomed Katzenberg And Whitman’s Streamer
Jeffrey Katzenberg admits Quibi’s failure wasn’t entirely COVID’s fault
Quibi, Short-Form Streaming Service, Quickly Shuts Down
Quibi Gave Media Giants Lesson: Quick Bites Aren’t Sure Hits
Quibi is Now Available on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV
Special Guest:
Kim Masters
Editor-at-Large of The Hollywood Reporter
Kim Masters is editor-at-large of The Hollywood Reporter and host of KCRW’s The Business. A former correspondent for NPR, she has also served as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, TIME and Esquire, and was a staff reporter for The Washington Post. She is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else, and co-author (with Nancy Griffin) of Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. Masters was named Entertainment Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2001 and Print Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2012. The Business received Gracie Awards for Outstanding Talk Show in 2012 and 2014. In 2018, the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists gave Masters its Distinguished Journalist Award.
Ahiza García-Hodges
Reporter at NBC News
Ahiza Garcia is a reporter at NBC News. She previously reported for CNN Business where she spent nearly five years covering sports business, tech and general business news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Columbia University. She also has a master’s degree in broadcast and digital journalism, with a sports communication emphasis, from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has covered a wide array of topics, including sports business, politics and general news.