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You didn't miss anything. I paid them for the same reason. They failed because their content was terrible, they just aren't admitting it.
by dpcan 6y ago
You didn't miss anything. I paid them for the same reason.
They failed because their content was terrible, they just aren't admitting it.
- bigbubba 6y agoI never even heard of them before today, and I don't consider myself particularly far out of the loop.
- sushshshsh 6y agoThey made some pretty big ad spending like x months ago, I can't remember, but that's the only value I have associated with "Quibi" in my brain. I think they paid some famous celebrities to endorse.
- zwily 6y agoI first heard of them during the Super Bowl I think.
- cgriswald 6y agoI heard about them one other time, on HN a few months ago. I didn’t bother checking them out because they were mobile only. Other than that, nothing. No one I know has mentioned them to me even in discussion of such services and the people I’ve asked haven’t had a clue they existed. Maybe their content sucks. Maybe their choices and interface are garbage. But surely their terrible marketing was also a nail in the coffin?
- prawn 6y agoSame. Heard about them once before and thought it was at least an interesting idea. However, if you've spent that much money and generated virtually zero chitchat on various social networks and places like HN, what have you been doing on the PR front?
- cheeze 6y agoI literally watch people live stream on Twitch and Youtube all the time and this is the second time I've heard of them. I'd agree.
- dpcan 6y agoI heard of them because I like Reno 911 and the social media algorithms probably knew that too because I watch the show on Comedy Central sometimes, and so they advertised Quibi and their Reno 911 show to me all over the place about 5 months ago. I signed up to watch it. It just wasn't the same as the good old show I used to watch, so I unsubscribed. I flipped through page after page after page of their other content offerings and not a single other thing looked remotely interesting to me. I tried watching a couple just because, and I got bored fast.