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Brian Dear

@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.

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PPN

@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.

Brian Dear

@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.

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