Goes straight to Kevin Kelly's 2008 essay on _1,000 True Fans_ . He looked at the model Prince and other musicians pioneered in the dial-up days of selling direct to their fans and observed that you'll make more money and generate more buzz off 1,000 regulars than you will off 100,000 casuals (he wrote the article before the rise of Kickstarter, Patreon, Fansly and similar). From the article: _Now here’s the thing; the big corporations, the intermediates, the commercial producers, are all under-equipped and ill suited to connect with these thousand true fans. They are institutionally unable to find and deliver niche audiences and consumers_
Goes straight to Kevin Kelly's 2008 essay on _1,000 True Fans_ . He looked at the model Prince and other musicians pioneered in the dial-up days of selling direct to their fans and observed that you'll make more money and generate more buzz off 1,000 regulars than you will off 100,000 casuals (he wrote the article before the rise of Kickstarter, Patreon, Fansly and similar).
From the article: _Now here’s the thing; the big corporations, the intermediates, the commercial producers, are all under-equipped and ill suited to connect with these thousand true fans. They are institutionally unable to find and deliver niche audiences and consumers_
The "broader audience" does not exist yet Hollywood never learns.