 The funny thing is that these price increases don’t take into account costs going up after they settle the SAG & WGA strikes. So more price increases are likely coming which means more people questioning if they should be paying for all these services. It’s definitely a transitional time for the streaming industry. 8 comments
 @carnage4life I think we’ll see the masses moving more to subscribing short-term, like only on an occasional one-month basis, where they binge on a whole season of a show, then dump that streaming service, then move on to another to binge on the next for a month. The streaming services will hate this high-churn consumer behavior and respond to it by designing in new impediments and disincentives to push consumers back to annual subscriptions. It won’t work. Substack is in for a similar fate. @brianstorms @carnage4life It is like streaming services are in denial about their business model. It just cannot work without extra money from sponsors/ads or without jacking up the prices to the point where users might as well buy/rent individual movies/series instead of full access to a library. @ppn @carnage4life Indeed. And I do that regularly via Apple’s movies on demand library within AppleTV. I also wish someone would continue the vast 100,000-title DVD/Bluray rental service that Netflix pioneered. I want on-demand access to any show, any movie, any time, and not necessarily via streaming.  @carnage4life Where did I read an article saying Disney+ was (predicted to be) shuttering based on a recent Disney earnings call. Shrinking catalogue plus big price increase causing subscribers to flee; just not sustainable.  So you're saying the CEO/investor class behind these increases won't scale back any of their profit-taking...   @carnage4life I thought Disney+ was much older but then I realized I might be thinking of the Disney channel (1983). |
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@carnage4life they all implemented unsustainable business models in an effort to seize the market from legacy media services, and each other. The efficiency of the free market on display, here. Truly innovative.