Andrew Wallenstein

Andrew Wallenstein is Chief Media Analyst of Luminate Intelligence, the market-research division at Luminate, the premier data and insights provider for the entertainment industry. Wallenstein worked at Variety from 2011-2024, including five years as Co-Editor-in-Chief, where he launched the leading entertainment-news brand’s weekly magazine and powered the Variety.com website to record Internet traffic. In 2020, he founded the subscription venture Variety Intelligence Platform, which was acquired and rebranded by Luminate in 2025. Wallenstein is also an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he teaches the “Hollywood: Navigating the Future” course. He previously taught journalism and media courses at Queens College, Hunter College and Columbia College Chicago. He was an on-air contributor for NPR's nationally syndicated show All Things Considered for nearly a decade and also hosted the PBS series "Variety Studio: Actors on Actor