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Most people know what happened.
Very few understand why.
AVOOLITÉ Channels is a media platform investigating the people, ideas and decisions shaping what comes next — through weekly investigations, field reporting and conversations.
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It’s not another studio.
Every industry assumes its competition looks like itself. This investigation asks who is really competing for Hollywood’s audience — and why it isn’t another studio.
The question this week
MIPCOM Cannes · 12–15 October 2026
Who decides the terms on which a culture’s stories are reused?
This year, MIPCOM launches a forum on AI — including how film and TV libraries can be licensed as training material. For decades, a catalogue was licensed to audiences. Now it may also be licensed to machines. We follow what that changes for archives, rights owners and the value of original IP.
Three lenses
Every story we publish is read through culture, capital and leadership — and the most interesting ones sit where they meet.
Field Notes
We go where industries meet — the markets, festivals and forums where decisions are made.
The AVOOLITÉ method
We start with something you already know — and leave you seeing it differently.
- 01ObservationSomething people see every day.
- 02QuestionThe one they may not have asked.
- 03InvestigationResearch, sources and conversations.
- 04The systemHow it connects to something larger.
- 05A new viewAnd the larger question it leaves.
Founder-led
“Knowing what happened is useful. Understanding why it happened is more powerful.”
AVOOLITÉ Channels is founded and hosted by Ellen Voss, an entrepreneur working across film distribution, media and culture. She investigates in public — observing, questioning, and speaking with the people who build industries.
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