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Looks like every content producer wants their own streaming service these days, and for good reason too. Good video content is expensive to produce. Why give Ne
by rm_-rf_slash 8y ago
Looks like every content producer wants their own streaming service these days, and for good reason too. Good video content is expensive to produce. Why give Netflix all that extra margin?
My only concern is whether consumers will opt for a bunch of different streaming subscriptions instead of the old duo, Netflix and Hulu, with a side of HBO? At some point it’s just going to be too much to pay for, and there’s only so much television one can watch in a month.
A subscription service for a solid niche will do fine - Disney is all but assured to have a permanent subscription from their dedicated fans and the parents of young children, and Marvel pretty much owns the superhero entertainment space - but what is Netflix’s niche? A browse through their original content is a spray-and-pray of categories that seeks to grab ahold of everyone. Some of it is pretty good, a fair amount is mediocre, and the vast majority I will never watch or probably even know exists. At what point is a subscriber going to shrug their shoulders and cancel all-for-all Netflix in favor of a subscription to a smaller selection of the stuff they love the most?