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I miss the documentary about Glass that used to be available on streaming. It's one of the few discs I plan to actually buy. I don't understand the business m
by JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
I miss the documentary about Glass that used to be available on streaming. It's one of the few discs I plan to actually buy.
I don't understand the business model of small films that withdraw from streaming completely, especially documentaries. Surely that can't be more profitable? I think about this question a lot while going through the dreck on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I think about all that work and knowledge and art just going silent and no one ever finding it or watching it again.
- barbecue_sauce 6y agoWhy do you assume it's the owners of the small films that withdraw, and not the streaming services that drop them in order to redeploy funds to other content?
- WorldMaker 6y agoOr to intentionally "vault" subsets of their catalogs for given periods so that when it shows back up in the catalog it is "new content" for some of the audience to discover?
- JohnJamesRambo 6y agoHmm I never thought of that I guess. I wish it was like the Spotify model where everyone wants their film on the service and they are paid each time someone watches it.