{"id":196654,"date":"2026-04-14T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:48:07","slug":"nyc-retro-video-store-night-owl-finds-booming-success-as-gen-z-embraces-physical-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196654\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC retro video store Night Owl finds booming success as Gen Z embraces physical media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              Night Owl Video, a retro store in NYC, celebrates one year of booming business. Co-owners Aaron Hamel and Jess Mills discuss the surprise demand for VHS, DVDs and physical media from younger customers, including Gen Z.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Night Owl Video, a retro video store in New York City, celebrates its first anniversary with booming business, driven by a surprising demand for physical media. Co-owners Aaron Hamel and Jess Mills reveal that Gen Z customers are increasingly seeking out VHS tapes, DVDs and Blu-rays, appreciating the tactile experience over digital streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Night Owl Video, a retro store in NYC, celebrates one year of booming business. Co-owners Aaron Hamel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9657,73359,232,9,56,63,65,64,73360,73361,10875,73362,73358],"class_list":["post-196654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fox-friends-first","tag-latest-news-videos","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-on-air","tag-personalities","tag-shows","tag-v-video","tag-what-to-watch-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}