Youth Sells, Until It Doesn't: AARP Study Calls Out Media's Age Blind Spot

For an industry that prides itself on “audience-first” decision-making, the media business has a remarkably persistent blind spot: age.

A new study from AARP suggests that Hollywood’s long-standing youth obsession (now reinforced by algorithms, AI-assisted development tools and risk-averse commissioning models) is increasingly out of step with what audiences actually …


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