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Netflix the once great hope, the central video store, the one-stop-shop-for-movies is now just a channel. prime, another channel. disney's thing, another chan

• autokad 8y ago
  it seems like a bad choice for a content producer to let netflix stream their material. as a content provider, you have an edge in that your library is larger than theirs. by allowing them to stream your content, you make profit today, but subsidize a competitor building their library. and in the transaction, you loose the most valuable component of the sale, the customer data. now your competitor has viewing habits of your customers, to which you are now blind. 10 years ago, it was really hard to stand up a streaming service for many companies, but that barrier is much lower now. 10 years ago, it was mostly tech companies that realized the value of data, now others are catching up. what is the next thing to disrupt the old guard? probably something not movie/series related. all this stuff, listening to music, watching a show, posting on fb, reading on hn are all actually competing for our time. we are running into an era where our times are stretched thin and we finally see unrelated things compete. so the next disruption may be something completely new. some said people posting content on youtube is that next thing. I am not so sure, I dont always want to watch someone rant about how bad the new star wars is.