Re: RTD: "Streamers are Heading for a South Sea Bubble"

On 2024-12-07 20:26:36 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The Doctor wrote:

 Look like the audience is not getting what they want.

 It looks like the streaming audiences are voting with their
wallet and refusing to keep stumping up money for all of the
various streaming services.

Some of use were smart enough to have never stumped up any money for ridiculous streaming services at all.  :op

Disney+, for instance, have gone from €6.99 a month, when they
launched in Ireland in March 2020, to €13.99 a month four years
later. (i.e. now!). How can normal people keep a subscription
going when the cost is increasing at that rate? They are
shooting themselves in the foot.

Subscription streaming was never a good financial model from the start, and as more and more companies have jumped on teh bandwagon up, it has become even less viable. Some are now loolking at partnerships and sharing some content, but that isn't going to work either - there's still simply far too many, far too much choice, and the public simply doesn't have enough money to keep paying them all.
It gets even sillier with other business jumping on the same subscription bandwagon. Adobe, for example, charging a monthly / annual fee to use their software. Even car manufacturers have been ridiculously looking at subscription models for some "features" in their cars.
The idiots in management greedily see it as an on-going income stream, but in reality people simply stop paying and the company usually ends up with less customers and less income.