I’m not paying for ads. Fuck this.
Guess I’ll go pirating again.
Aaaarrr
Maybe streaming providers should acknowledge that people don’t want 6 different services, they’re anchored to Netflix from 5 years ago in terms of content score, quality, and price.
Everyone I know who tried the ad plan on Netflix dropped it, and in the past year I’ve cut which streaming services I subscribe to as content disappears and I’m asked to pay more for less.
My prediction for streaming is annual only contracts or stupid high monthly prices, lower quality, and ads getting baked into the higher tiers like cable.
It already makes me mad that Prime video plays ads for their own shows before stuff I’m trying to watch. Plus they have straight up cable tv style subscriptions
Yeah, I get Prime Video “free” because I subscribe to Prime for the shipping benefits. But even free doesn’t cut it if they are playing ads, promoting subscription services to other “channels” and are generally being annoying.
It’s the same reason why I refuse to watch any of the “free” TV channels that come with my internet service provider or my smart TV. They couldn’t pay me to sit through ads one after another. Life’s too short for that nonsense.
Apple does that too, and it’s so un-Apple.
Well, it’s not Steve Apple, but it’s very Tim Apple, and that bugs me.
Apple always has ads for it’s own stuff in everything. Most of their users just refuse to call them ads.
I could go on about that too.
Shit like permanently pinning a notification in system preferences because you aren’t signed into iCloud grinds my gears.
There’s a lot I like about Apple, and a lot that I wish Steve’s ghost would come back and start tossing desks out of windows over.
It’s like reduflation but for entertainment.
Was the cheap Netflix-only model really sustainable tho?
Tbh seemed too cheap from a business perspective to last long
Sort of, it was essentially free money for these companies to license content that didn’t even make the Walmart DVD bin. But now that streaming has replaced cable those companies want the full revenue to make up for it.
Netflix is profitable, they have a 13% profit margin, so streaming is sustainable even with super high R&D costs.
Everyone is trying to squeeze the customer and Netflix now and I think it’s doomed to fail. Nobody buys CDs, Nobody pays for an individual Columbia Records subscription, and nobody wants to have a separate streaming service for every “channel”. Ultimately what happened to music is going to happen to TV again because it’s inefficient for these companies to all be playing greedy forever.
13% profit is pretty small tho compared to a lot of other industries tho no?
That’s a pretty decent profit margin. Many businesses take in a lot less.
Any examples? Only things that come to mind are ones that are known for having slim profit margins, e.g. Airlines, grocery stores, etc
Free, cheap or otherwise, I’m not watching ads. The only streaming service I have is Prime, and that only because of the bundling with Amazon Prime for the shipping.
Honestly, I miss the golden age of streaming. But now that it’s gone and we are basically stuck with cable, I’m cancelling all my accounts, I cancelled Netflix last year, prime early this year. Never had crave, it was basically garbage since it was introduced.
The best part of crave now, is they are losing content to Paramount +. So yet another service you need to subscribe too. I think I am going to cancel them all as well. Then rotate through each one once a month.
Great idea, it would be nice if there was a place that knew what I liked to watch and could make recommendations across all services.
Ill wait 12 months for a bunch of movies to come out and watch them all for $15 and cancel again. That sure as fuck isn’t profitable for them.
I’ve been planning to do that for Netflix. Cancelled a long time ago because I was getting sick of everything from successful series being inexplicably cancelled (turns out it was literally to get out of paying actors or writers their negotiated minimum wage!) to the continual loss of features with continual price increases. I have at least one show on there that I haven’t seen two seasons of, and a few other things to catch up on. All in one month, then I’ll drop it again.
I got Disney free through some kind of shady Shaw deal I signed up for but the billisecond I see an ad it’s gone.
Not sure if it’s just a typo or a fun play on words, but just in case, a billionth of a second is is a nanosecond.
Ad-backed being otherwise free?
but it plans to offer a cheaper version supported by advertising in Canada starting in November.
Not free it seems.
Woo paying for ads! We’re back to cable.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Disney is raising the price of its streaming service Disney+ around the world, but it plans to offer a cheaper version supported by advertising in Canada starting in November.
Disney CEO Bob Iger acknowledged that the price hikes are intended to steer consumers toward cheaper ad-supported versions of these services, in order to keep them as customers.
Disney’s announcement of new pricing plans for its streaming service comes as the company reported financial results showing it’s losing customers and money in its legacy businesses.
Paul Verna, an analyst with Insider Intelligence, said in a note that its moves aren’t likely to calm investors “anxious for clarity on the company’s strategy for its streaming services and TV networks.”
Higher sports programming production costs and lower revenue due to cord cutting dragged down the performance of its cable channels.
Iger, who returned in November to take over the CEO post from Bob Chapek, has worked over the past several months to turn around Disney’s streaming business while making sure that the financial might of its theme parks doesn’t waver.
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LOL. This kind of business model destroys business. Enjoy not getting any money from me, Disney+. 😘
