MUuuhhaaaaa. I worked for a cable company for a little over a decade. I remember commenting when people everywhere were talking about its death that streaming would soon be just like cable. They called me a fool. MUuuhhaaaaa!
This is what you made me think of
Hulu is owned by cable companies, they didn’t learn everyone hates advertising
now it’s mostly Disney or even fully disney, i forgot
Um, duh?
Is the author just noticing this? We’ve been piecing this together for the past 7 some odd years. The day hit us was when YouTube decided to be cute by adding in it’s own network via YouTubeTV and with it’s onslaught of ads.
When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.
You’re correct.
Social Media is the perfect example of this. Everytime a new social media network arrives, they always boast about being able to do things you could already have done with the other 9 social media networks. Sharing pictures and video, chatting .etc. They’re all things we could’ve already have done far way back in the days of messaging software like AIM. It’s nothing new, it’s just recycled ideas being treated as new.
The only things that have ever improved were the amount of size of videos and pictures we can share and the speed in which we’re able to do it with. That’s it.
The well of finding new ideas has ran dry, because they’ve all been tried and done before many times. New name, same old shit.
That article was worthless… basically streaming is expensive and not as awesome as it once was. There you go whole article
The biggest change to me is how much the streaming services are pushing commercials now. Paying to watch commercials really completes the transition back to cable.
@teamevil, the hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
What is this “world of content” the author is talking about? 17 years ago, the streaming options on Netflix were the previous season of Friday Night Lights, and… that was it. A few years later they got The Office, but never the current season. So you were always behind. These articles never seem to include a graph of available content over time.
I stopped using Hulu when it introduced ads over a decade ago and never looked back. The stock of that company did really well despite the cable-like inconveniences.
What is that Hulu you are talking about, we never got that in Mexico (nor Pandora now that I am talking about it).
In this day and age where everyone wants its piece of the cake it is weird to me that they never cared about more countries xd.
The music industry figured it out. Now the video streaming industry needs to. Until then, arrrrrr.
The music industry figured it out: I listen to way more music than ever before and I willingly pay more than ever before
Video streaming keeps trying to make my experience more frustrating, less value to me. They’re scrounging for dollars is driving me away. I’ve considered my options for making video entertainment enjoyable again, and I’m just tired of the whole thing. I’m spending more time in projects, more time online, more time reading ebooks from my library. I’m watching less video than before, enjoying it less, getting less value for my money and it’s just all not worth it. Their efforts to profit more from my attention are getting them less of it and losing my willingness to pay
The big difference is exclusive content. Music has a few exceptions but in general sign up for one service and you can listen to anything.
That forces music services to compete on the overall experience (and price), while video services pretty much exclusively compete based on what content is available and literally none of them offer all of the things a person wants to watch. So nobody will ever be happy with any streaming service.
Yo ho ho my friend. Yo ho ho.
Oh sure, great idea! Henceforth, actors don’t get paid any more. that’s what you’re advocating, that’s what the music industry has “figured out” - how to steal all the money and give it to people who had no involvement with actually making the music.
You should be pirating the fucking music not supporting the pricks who walked in off the street and stole everything
No problem, friend. I have time for both.
Spotify pays more to artists than physical stores selling CDs ever did. And they certainly pay better than FM radio.
Sure - if you were one of he top 1000 artists in the world the old system paid more… but it’s not like those artists are starving now — Spotify alone pays millions per year to the top thousand artists, and they also get paid by YouTube, Apple, TikTok, etc etc.
The real way to make money in the music industry is and always has been live performances. A solo artist can make a couple hundred bucks a night doing simple cover songs, and a popular band can make a lot more.
My hot take, in the digital age, all direct marketing should be opt-in with the platform. Opt-in for industries with the ability to ban specific advertisers.
If you don’t watch it it looks like nothing.
Rice cakes taste like nothing. Eat beef!
Fuck off you racist piece of shit.
Racist? How so?
What we wanted: a-la-carte channels.
What we got: seven expensive streaming services and they all still somehow have ESPN bullshit.
What we actually need: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
We know, Verge.
Now go build an PC…wait nevermind.
nah, just get a thinkpad
Look up “Verge PC build” on Youtube to get it.
On the up-side, I can cancel subscriptions whenever I want and only subscribe to one or two at a time when they have something I want to watch. I could never do that with cable.
That said, pricing is getting way out of control. I will not tolerate ads and we’re getting to the point where purchasing content makes more financial sense than subscribing to things that load you up with caveats unless you pay premiums.
They’re going to complicate unsubscribing next.
I think that’s illegal in some places, like California and the EU.
Amazon is way ahead of the curve
I fear the change from monthly to annual only subscriptions is on the horizon
The “best” part you forgot , buying probably won’t be possible or available
Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. 😞
And also, even when it is… it’s “buying” (with quotes), because in this brave new digital world… you don’t actually own anything you “buy”.
