I’ve been unmotivated in the past but i think it’s time to sort out an alternative.
Because most people aren’t going to ditch them regardless of how many ads they put, and that’s good enough for them.
An object in motion stays in motion. An object at rest stays at rest. The vast majority of people don’t use their brains and accept whatever UX the corpos feel like shovelling.
A vast number of users won’t switch
Television does it
Because netflix tested it and it was worth it for them. The increased revenue from ads more than made up the subscription fees of users lost.
What in turn is short sighted. A new age of Piracy is on the rise my friends… time to sail again.
My steamers don’t have any ads.
Well, I might add to it soon enough if the cramps are any indication…
I have zero commercials on my Jellyfin instance.
They’re banking on their service still being better. In the short term they assume their particular selection of content will provide some inertia to your decision to move, and long term they expect all of the other options are going to do the same thing. Eventually, you’ll only be able to stream with commercials, and they’ll be back to the balance of their content being the only deciding factor.
I think that’s definitely part of it. I think another part is that they don’t do ads right away so people will switch to them, then they add them assuming people will either forget to cancel, or just decide that since they’re already there they may as well keep it anyway.
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If they increase prices by 20% and lose 15% of their customer base, that’s an increase in profit.
If they increase their ad duration by 50% and lose 15% of their customer base, that’s a huge increase in profit.
You’re one person
Because they think you’ll be too addicted to their content and offerings to quit
If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.
I wonder if they police copyright videos, or if we’ll all just be watching the office on xxx.com soon
If you know mandarin, you can basically find all of our stuff on their Chinese youtube. Ironically, you can also find all of their stuff on our YouTube.
didnt full movies used to be uploaded to pornhub?
I know I’ve heard of some sports broadcasts like world cup getting uploaded to various sites. Wouldn’t be surprised if movies were already there as well.
That’s where I first saw the Rexenge of the Sith ultimate edition.
It’s easier to ignore ads on porn sites because they’re usually also porn, and that’s why you’re there in the first place.
Streaming services have a catastrophic problem they didn’t see coming.
As they massively expanded the viewing market, they also gave very accurate viewing metrics compared to broadcast TV.
Also, the many, MANY offerings cut the viewing pie into smaller pieces.
And this is the expectation, mostly because while you might stay with a super hit like GoT, they’re super expensive, and huge risks if they don’t take off (see acolyte). Cost sensitive people are likely to subscribe for the season then cancel, or just subscribe the month the season finishes.
The alternative is to try to hook you on a bunch of shows, which means having a ton of them and hoping they nail your niche. People are less willing to do this, but it works if you have more disposable income, or value streaming more.
In any case, they can’t afford all the shows they have to put on, it’s all or nothing now, before they might watch lost on ABC one night, then CBS walker Texas ranger might let the kid fall on the ground the next, but now you have to keep them entertained most days, that’s a shit-ton of content. HBO has it worse, they’re losing their old cable revenue, and their productions are stupid expensive, and they’re one of the winners. Disney has it even worse because disney+ cannibalizes both their cinema sales and they have to put up their crown jewels, star wars and the mcu, all on the same service, devaluing both. Fortunately focusing on kids programming helps because parents basically have to have Disney+ just as a matter of course.
This barely worked on broadcast because the different channels could share the load and cut the ad pie into larger pieces,
If they could count on must-watch blockbusters (ie GoT, which really hurt them when they screwed the landing and killed rewatchability), they could pull it off, but that’s so risky, it’s betting everything on one spin of the roulette wheel.
I liked reading your response. Wish I had a meaningful response other than there is no way I’m going to feel bad for media companies. If they’ve painted themselves in a corner I’m sure it was greed that got them there.
Don’t feel bad at all for them.
They celebrated like crazy when things were good, now the economics is hitting them like it should.
They, like everyone else in life, will have to figure out how to manage, or not.
Eh, the cycle of collapse and consolidation will hit the streaming system exactly the same as it would any other industry. I feel like the system will stabilize around 3-5 big services - maybe amazon, hbo, and disney, with youtube premium and apple TV as the “also rans” - which will all have premium price points and ads, and the average person who subscribes to them will be paying about as much (after inflation) as they used to pay for cable.
That’s exactly what will happen.
There will just be a lot more fuckery involved, a super-premium tier that doesn’t cycle out content but costs 3x as much and such.
Because they know most people are too lazy, too addicted, too lacking in tech for any other solution, so they’ll take the abuse.