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There were so many things wrong with Quibi, just off the top of my head: - Initially restricting allowed devices to mobile only. - Flagrant nepotism, like Ree

There were so many things wrong with Quibi, just off the top of my head: - Initially restricting allowed devices to mobile only. - Flagrant nepotism, like Reese Witherspoon being given $6 million to narrate a documentary miniseries...with her husband coincidentally being the Head of Talent Acquisition at Quibi. - Seemingly not having a single critically-acclaimed show. Quibi's strategy was seemingly to just dump money on A-list actors, not A-list writers and it made all of the shows (or at least the dozen I sampled) a wasted effort. - (Allegedly) stealing the video-rotation technology from another company, and being mired in a lawsuit about it.

input_sh 6y ago
Also just blatantly stealing show ideas from YouTube creators instead of just... you know, hiring that YouTube channel to do something they've been doing for a decade (https://twitter.com/E_I_T/status/1247221678712619008 https://twitter.com/E_I_T/status/1247221678712619008). Even the damn title of the series and aesthetics are exactly the same. Also the idea of dropping one episode every week. Imagine being invested in some story and only receiving 8-10 min of it every week. That's twice as short as any TV show out there, not to mention Netflix releasing entire seasons at once. Also preventing users from taking screenshots, which is just stupid. It just helps if people share your content to other people.
- Ansil849 6y ago
  > Also just blatantly stealing show ideas from YouTube creators Wow, had no idea about this. Despicable conduct. > Also preventing users from taking screenshots Ah yeah, I forgot to mention this point too. Talk about shooting themselves in the foot. Really, when all these missteps are stacked up, how was anyone thinking that this company wouldn't fail? I know hind sight is 20/20, but these all should have been immediate red flags.
- tmpz22 6y ago
  > Imagine being invested in some story and only receiving 8-10 min of it every week I agree with all your points except this one. Rick and Morty is essentially 20 minute episodes released weekly, after commercials. If you took out long pauses, transitions, and other filling, I'm sure you could get it down to 15 minutes of punch. I'd add a lot of video creators like game of zones, alt-shift-x, theinternethistorian, also fill the punch of 15-25 minute content released weekly/monthly, are ravenously popular. There is room for ~10-20 minute content but it may be harder to market/monetize.

input_sh 6y ago

Also just blatantly stealing show ideas from YouTube creators instead of just... you know, hiring that YouTube channel to do something they've been doing for a decade (https://twitter.com/E_I_T/status/1247221678712619008 https://twitter.com/E_I_T/status/1247221678712619008). Even the damn title of the series and aesthetics are exactly the same. Also the idea of dropping one episode every week. Imagine being invested in some story and only receiving 8-10 min of it every week. That's twice as short as any TV show out there, not to mention Netflix releasing entire seasons at once. Also preventing users from taking screenshots, which is just stupid. It just helps if people share your content to other people.

Ansil849 6y ago
> Also just blatantly stealing show ideas from YouTube creators Wow, had no idea about this. Despicable conduct. > Also preventing users from taking screenshots Ah yeah, I forgot to mention this point too. Talk about shooting themselves in the foot. Really, when all these missteps are stacked up, how was anyone thinking that this company wouldn't fail? I know hind sight is 20/20, but these all should have been immediate red flags.
tmpz22 6y ago
> Imagine being invested in some story and only receiving 8-10 min of it every week I agree with all your points except this one. Rick and Morty is essentially 20 minute episodes released weekly, after commercials. If you took out long pauses, transitions, and other filling, I'm sure you could get it down to 15 minutes of punch. I'd add a lot of video creators like game of zones, alt-shift-x, theinternethistorian, also fill the punch of 15-25 minute content released weekly/monthly, are ravenously popular. There is room for ~10-20 minute content but it may be harder to market/monetize.