Followers
73.1K
About this metric
Public follower count at check time.
Evan Shapīro LinkedIn stats
LinkedIneshap-media-cartographer
Profile data checked Aug 6, 2026, 3:39 PM
Report generated Sep 23, 2026, 6:27 AM · Methodology
53/100
Limited profile signals
Experience
0
About this metric
Public experience entries returned with the profile.
Education
0
About this metric
Public education entries returned with the profile.
Posts sampled
9
About this metric
Dated recent posts returned with the public profile.
Category scores
Out of 100Career depth
Limited
15/100
About clarity
Limited
18/100
Sampled response
Limited
26/100
Profile foundation
Limited
45/100
Search context
Mixed
65/100
Recent activity
Strong
90/100
Post context
Strong
100/100
Proof of work
Strong
100/100
Bio and content
9 of 9 posts analyzedThe bio is empty, so identity, expertise, and expected content are not stated.
Audience
Media executives, investors, marketers, and professionals following entertainment economics, streaming, consolidation, executive compensation, AI, and television.
Positioning
A provocative media-industry commentator analyzing streaming economics, corporate consolidation, executive pay, consumer sentiment, and traditional television’s decline.
Bio/content match
WeakNine meaningful posts establish a clear media focus, but an empty bio gives them no stated identity or content promise to support.
Recent LinkedIn posts
8 sampledPosting pace
2.1/week
Calculated from the dates in the captured authored-post sample.
Typical post response
96
Median reactions and comments across 9 sampled posts.
Responses / 1K followers
1.3
Median public reactions and comments per 1,000 public followers. This is not impression-based engagement.
Comment share
15%
154 of 1,024 sampled responses were comments.
Response consistency
84%
Median sampled response divided by average sampled response; lower values indicate a few posts dominate.
Authored articles
1
Authored LinkedIn articles returned in the public profile.
Projects and publications
4
Projects and publications returned in the public profile.
Recommendations
2
Public recommendations returned with the profile.
A BETTER MOUSETRAP?
I joined Romaine Bostick, CFA on The Close on Bloomberg Television to slice the cheese in The Walt Disney Company's 2Q Earnings Report:
🐭 We focused on Disney Streaming - for good reason. Disney's D2C Streaming profits more than doubled: up 116% to $712B in 2Q.
🐭 I also unpacked & explained the deal Disney announced yesterday wit TikTok:
The partnership has *TikTok* integrating *INTO Disney+* with a CURATED feed of CREATORS, much of the content focused on Disney IP. Crucially, Disney will package and sell this inventory across BOTH Disney Streaming AND TikTok - something that I believe will be enormously popular with Creators AND Advertisers.
🐭 This move allows Disney to BEGIN to compete with social platforms, ON MOBILE, OUTSIDE THE LIVING ROOM. This is also another shoe dropping in Premium Vertical Television - a wave that I've predicted for some time. As I told Romaine, this is more than Brands Cosplaying Creator. This must-do move into mobile that all the premium streaming players are rushing at now.
🐭 I mention the success of Toy Story in the interview. Here are the receipts:
Toy Story 5: $1B+ at the global BO; Toy Story catalog: 2B hours streamed this summer; Toy Story Merch: $1.1B in sales this year; Toy Story drove +20% jump in OpInc at Disney Parks, Experiences And Consumer Products. Walt's Flywheel still works!
🐭 I also dug into Disney's Sports game. OpInc at ESPN and Sports FELL -17% in 2Q. That's because their NBA fees skyrocketed 86%. Disney's sports fees (alone) are $12B in 2026 - that's 60% of Netflix's ENTIRE 2026 programming spend. That said: NBA Finals rose 100% this year, with viewing among P12-24 up 140%. The NHL Finals also grew 100% this year. So the investment is starting to pay off.
🐭 The question is, can Josh D'Amaro and Disney transform ESPN into a streaming service FASTER than Trad TV dies? Otherwise, even the Knicks may not be able to make the sports math work.
Some Disney things we didn't get to cover:
🐭 Overall Net Income at Disney fell -52% in 2Q: This stems from their sale of their half of A+E Global Media to Hearst - taking a $900M write down on value in the process.
🐭 Disney has FINALLY started to improve their position in the FOX acquisition seven years ago: Because of the full integration of Hulu and the integration of FOX content (The Simpsons, X Men) into the Disney Universe, they've moved from -$67 BILLION negative asset value to approximately -$40 BILLION.
🐭 Still, at this rate, Disney won't break even on the FOX acquisition until 2034.
🐭 Disney shares are up 5% this week.
Thanks to Romaine and Bloomberg TV - LMK your thoughts below! 65 3Tick Tick BOOM! 💣
PREDICTION: This ticking Time Bomb (combined with the implosion of Oracle stock) will force Sugar Daddy Larry Ellison to walk away from the Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery deal AND his Nepo Baby.
Here’s why… 104 29"I don't need the robots reading my emails!"
Welcome back to BIG BRAINS - my LinkedIn series with the best minds in Media.
Today, we're in the poll position, with Jenna Lauer, CCO at The Harris Poll - the gold-standard of research and polling for more than 70 years.
Jenna gave me a deep dive into current consumer sentiment, including the results of their recent poll and report with 4As about the popular (or unpopular) perception of AI - aptly named "Nobody asked for this!"
In response to the tsunami of AI Hype, everyday consumers have a creeping sense of tech invasion, resulting in a surprising cultural counter-movement:
Analog is the new Black: Hard-copy magazines and vinyl are surging, especially with younger adults.
We Touch Grass: Audiences are opting more and more for device-free, IRL experiences, like concerts, over digital connection and overload.
Creators > Slop: In response the slippery slope of slop, audiences are actively seeking human creators for authentic connection, community, and (crucially) trust.
If you are a marketer, advertiser, or creator, today, you must earn your audience's attention, not expect it. Relying too heavily on automation results in bad data, awful outputs - even audience repulsion.
With access to 70 years of data, Jenna has the perfect view to help us understand the trajectory of human behavior - and does so in this fun and fascinating chat. You can see our entire conversation right here! 👇
Thanks to XR Extreme ReachXR Extreme Reach for sponsoring this great series and to The MeasureThe Measure for making it happen.
#BigData #AI #MarketingTrends #ConsumerInsights #CannesLions #MediaUniverse 49 10APEX COMPETITORS
Zaslav makes 1378 times more than the avg Warner Bros. Discovery employee. He's laid off 6,500 people in the last 48 months.
Ellison makes 1109 times more than the avg Paramount employee. He's laid off 3,000 people in the last year.
Cavanaugh makes 542 times more than the avg NBCUniversal team member. Roberts makes 397 times more the avg Comcast worker. They've laid off 3,500 people in the last four years.
Larry Ellison makes 430 times more than the avg Oracle employee. Larry's laid off 21,000 people in the last 4 years.
Penn makes 320 times more than the avg worker at Stagwell. He's shitcanned 4.5% of his staff in the last four years.
Wren makes 346 times more than the avg Omnicom staff. He's laid off 10,000 people in the last two years - that's 12% of the staff.
Dolan makes 253 times more than the average AMC Global Media employee. She's laid off 22% of her employees in the last 48 months.
Rose makes 253 times the avg WPP employee. She's pink-slipped 3,500 people in the last 4 years - 3.5% of the staff.
The Top Ten Media CEOs on the Index below make 1022 TIMES MORE than the avg American.
They have fired 44,000 Americans in the last 48 months.
The pay disparity in Media C-Suites is GROSSLY disproportionate.
EVEN WHEN compared to Big Tech and the most valuable companies in human history.
WHY THO?
The Media Industrial Complex has metastasized from Capitalism into a Caste System.
These moguls make bank. Everybody else gets the shitcanned end of the stick.
Read the receipts right here:
https://lnkd.in/gSC7fvrc 128 19Big Zas:
$165M
1378 x Warner Bros. Discovery Avg.
Ari (Gold) Emanuel:
$67M
843 x TKO Avg.
Ellison Junior:
$63M
1109 x Paramount Avg.
Larry Ellison:
$84M
430 x Oracle Avg.
These 4 men are #1, #2, #3 & #6 for CEO Pay Disparity, higher than all Big Tech (incl. Netflix, NVIDIA, Google, Apple, Amazon & Meta).
Larry’s Big Tech, but now, thanks to Junior & Trump, he’s also Paramount, WBD, and TikTok.
Zas + Ari + Ellison + Ellison
$379M per year
1346 x 6 Avg. Workers
in Hollywood.
These Four Horsemen of the
Hollywood Caste System are currently out on these streets, selling us WarnerMount as “fair competition.”
Meanwhile they’re using the U.S. Department of Justice to slither past foreign ownership rules, giving oil royalty 38% of the company that owns 60 Minutes & CNN, and promising President Trump only big bold beautiful news.
The LAST THING Zas, Ari, Junior & Larry ever want is fair competition.
I just dropped ALL the receipts in a new piece at:
https://lnkd.in/gSC7fvrc 45 3New Report:
Hollywood’s Caste System
Including:
🎬 The Pay Disparity Index for 40+ Big Tech/Media CEOs
🎬 Big Media CEOs Pay
vs Average Americans
🎬 WARNERMOUNT: How Zas, Ari, Ellison & Ellison - four of Media’s highest & most disproportionately paid men - are using the Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery deal to fortify their pole positions atop Hollywood’s Richest Caste.
Trailer below.
The report & the receipts right here: https://lnkd.in/gSC7fvrc
Grab a cuppa ☕️ and dig in! 79 17"When a small group of men from the same trade get together, the conversation inevitably ends in a conspiracy against the public.”
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
American Media Moguls are not interested in a free market nor fair competition.
Hollywood is now a Caste System.
This is PERFECTLY personified by the WarnerMount deal: Designed to concentrate power, and money, among a small cadre of global billionaires, who all do business together - at the expense of the public.
Watch the video to see how Paramount, Oracle, Warner Bros. Discovery, Public Investment Fund (PIF), TKO, RedBird Capital Partners, Zas, Larry, Davey, Ari Gold, and The White House are ALL intertwined in a human centipede of self-enrichment that would make Adam Smith vomit his mead.
Catch up on earlier episodes in the comments! 163 22My address is NYC
But I live EVERYWHERE!
I am on “the road” a lot. I average 25-30 weeks of travel each year.
My address is NYC, but I actually LIVE in the world.
I NEVER traveled as a kid - ever.
I didn’t have a passport until I was 31 and had kids of my own.
So, when people say “all that travel it must be exhausting...”
My reply: “HELL NO! I fucking LOVE it!”
In the latest iteration of "Me," I am SO lucky to make up for lost time - going to new places and meeting new people every month of the year, learning so much along the way, constantly broadening my horizons AND my perspective.
This fall, I embark on another world tour: From Edinburgh to São Paulo, and a dozen places in between.
I'll have all NEW material and data, locked, loaded, and ready to roar.
One of the events I’m MOST psyched for this fall: Jupiter Festival Miami
I was beyond honored when William Mellis & Eric Markgraf asked me to anchor the lineup at this incredible new event - with partners like IAB & Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - entirely focused on the future of content, advertising, and audience.
WHY? Just LOOK at who's joining me on stage:
larry namer, Joe Franzetta, Jae Goodman, Anish Melwani, Kenny The Jet Smith, Robin Clarke, Courtney Carter, Doug Scott, Robert Gottlieb, Brian Albert, Marc Guldimann, Wendy McMahon, Bill Owens, Shelly Palmer, Ross Martin, Elizabeth A. Campbell, Pete Distad, Neil Waller 🐳, Carlo Noseda, Rebecca Glashow, Peter Naylor, Doug Shapiro, TiQuisha Tobin, Esq., Sofia Stanley, James McMillan, Janet Moreira, Marcus Peterzell, Aaron Sisto, Scott Greenberg, Sheena Katz, Michael R. Yormark, Farhoud Meybodi, Lee Zohlman, Scott Becher, Nichole Robillard, Eric Rojas, Samantha Catalina, Chris Long, Ron Insana, Howard Homonoff - and whole lot more to come.
When they announced this week that Third Eye Blind was kicking it all of... I plotzed.
I am VERY happy to get a nice long rest this month, but I am also totally ENERGIZED for an amazing fall tour. I hope to you see you somewhere around the world!
BUT if you want to join me and everyone above at the inaugural Jupiter Festival - for what WILL BE one of the key industry gatherings, this and EVERY fall - use the code EVAN25, for a limited time, and get TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OFF your pass.
Register here:
https://lnkd.in/gMxiharQ
Safe Travels!!!
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Public reactions and comments
9 posts with countsProfessional signals
Career depth
0 entries
Public profile: 0 experience + 0 education
Proof of work
7
Public profile: 1 articles + 4 portfolio items + 2 recommendations
Authored activity
100%
Visible activity: 9 authored, 0 shared, 0 liked, 0 other
Response consistency
84%
Sampled posts: Median 96 / average 113.8
Category details
Career depth
The public profile shows limited career depth in the fields returned.
- 0 experience entries
- 0 education entries
- Current organization unavailable
About clarity
The bio is empty, so identity, expertise, and expected content are not stated.
- No bio text is supplied.
- The display name alone does not define a role or subject focus.
Sampled response
Public response is small relative to the visible audience, sparse, or uneven.
- 9 of 9 posts received a public response
- 1.3 median responses per 1,000 followers
- 84% median-to-average consistency
Profile foundation
The public profile exposes limited identity or career context.
- About section missing
- 0 experience entries
- Location: New York, New York, United States
Search context
The public profile exposes limited searchable professional context.
- Current organization unavailable
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Post topics: media, larry, paramount
Recent activity
The captured profile includes several current authored posts.
- 9 dated posts returned
- Newest post is 48 days old
Post context
Most sampled posts include enough visible text to evaluate their subject and argument.
- 9 of 9 posts included text
- 9 of 9 posts contained at least 120 characters
Proof of work
The public profile backs its positioning with visible authored work or third-party evidence.
- 1 authored articles
- 4 projects or publications
- 2 recommendations returned
Profile roast
An empty bio above wall-to-wall media punditry is an embarrassing mess, too loud to explain what the profile actually is.
eshap-media-cartographer · D · 53/100
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