{
  "id": 1977971,
  "title": "Crunchyroll Thinks Small When It Comes to Building Out Its Global Anime Empire",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/crunchyroll-thinks-small-when-it-comes-to-building-out-its-global",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-19T16:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/focus/crunchyroll-anime-global-1236837643/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For two decades, Crunchyroll built its business on anime, growing the U.S. audience for the animated content from a niche genre to a mainstream giant. But its growth has been built on thinking small. “We like to say that we don’t want to be something for everyone. We want to be everything to someone, and […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}