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Damn man, what is going on at Viaplay now? My former team lead used to work there and went back after he left the place where we worked together. This was my i
by DanielHB 2y ago
Damn man, what is going on at Viaplay now? My former team lead used to work there and went back after he left the place where we worked together.
This was my intuition as well, unless you are doing B2B (with billing proportional to the streaming) you have to do the hosting yourself.
- lillecarl 2y agoI don't know much anymore, I know they run more ads than content and that they're running very lean. A lot of people had to go when the stock tanked. I have some conspiracy theory that "they" wiped the stock harder than deserved to be able to buy back ownership on the cheap... I had to deal with Viaplay HR recently to get some documents out, took a month to get ahold of someone who could do it...
- DanielHB 2y agoJeez that sucks, was it all due to the decision to offload streaming to 3rd parties? How could they not do any cost estimations? It must have been a huge project that lasted months.
- lillecarl 2y agoViaplay started as a side gig to Nordic Entertainment Group so they started in the cloud and never questioned the decision again, I also got the impression that leadership didn't trust the tech competency and they didn't hire to fix it either. CDN providers are arguably better at CDN than we were, but it's just so expensive. Regarding why the company tanked, I think it was just a part of a bigger problem with inefficient operations, bloat and also going all-in investing in sports without acquiring enough customers. The Viaplay app(s) are quite bad so people find other ways to watch what they want.