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Title is a little misleading, they are seeking streaming rights for their subscription service; they already have streaming rights as part of their rental servi
by Touche 11y ago
Title is a little misleading, they are seeking streaming rights for their subscription service; they already have streaming rights as part of their rental service https://www.youtube.com/user/movies https://www.youtube.com/user/movies as of a few years ago.
YouTube is a bit late to the game on this sort of thing. 5 years ago they were the only name in streaming video and they let Netflix blow by them by offering premium content that people want (kids might spend all day watching 5 min clips of video games and cat antics but adults want the premium content).
- NiftyFifty 11y agoAfter reading it further, this is about as point as it can be. Ty for diversification of my own opinion.
- yaur 11y agoMy view of what the industry was like 5 years ago, is that content creators only wanted to deal with small companies that they could control and that didn't have the bankroll to take it to the FCC. All of them were terrified of Google getting into the space and all of the contracts I saw could be canceled on a change of control. One of our counter parties explicitly mentioned concerns that we would get bought by Amazon or Google.