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We Lost the Streaming Wars | The Backdrop
🕑 Added 2024-09-03 15:03:01 +0000 UTCIn this latest episode of The Backdrop, Darren Mooney examines how the return of Amazon's The Rings of Power coincides with the end of the streaming wars -- spoilers, we lost.
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Ultraczar
Darren, let the folks in the comments always feel your righteous pun-ishment.
Luci
The pirate bay. Streaming services had the chance to outcompete media piracy, but they got too greedy.
Tim Wilson
I’ll always click on a video with puns before I click one without :D I’ve had Netflix for years and it’s the only one I’ve kept, Disney and Amazon have been jettisoned with Netflix’s plan going down a step. It’s not even that I can’t afford it, I’m just not feeling the value. There’s also the new ways people consume content. I’ve mentioned before I’m as likely to play a game on a weekend or watch a series on YouTube as I am to watch a film (which I’m old enough to still collect DVDs for) or a tv series. And even if I did, the thing I wanted to watch was rarely on a service I had anyway. As always, businesses learning the line doesn’t go up forever methinks, but great video, love the breakdown and chronology!
Darren Mooney
Netflix
jahr
Fiscal calendar vs release schedules is an aspect I hadn't considered. Hoggish Greedly catchin strays for Zaslav's terrible leadership might be a step too far 🤣
Jeremy
i say keep up the puns Darren, they're terrible but if they make you happy go for it! :)
Bj Last
Great video, but I think you understate the impact of the new agreements with writers, directors, & actors. Or put another way studious not having to pay people that worked on streaming was a lot of what drove its massive initial growth. Prior to those agreements streaming lowered labor costs for studious because of how streaming revenue was treated for future royalty & participation payments. This increased the appeal of streaming to studios because they got to keep a much larger portion of revenue from streaming vs. movie tickets & DVD/BluRay sales. The "death of streaming" really coincided with the new guild agreements that made studios actually pay the talent that produced the shows & movies.
laurence m
I took an arrow in the knee during the streaming wars.
Jeremiah Maxel
In response to that last pun: BOOOOOO! :P
Pyrian
The puns won.
Jim Roberts-Miller
Right now most people seem to believe it's Netflix.
Holy Zen!
But who won?
