All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week
All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week
Disappointing streaming changes are happening so fast that it's hard to keep up.
Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced.
We'll also examine each streaming platform's financial status to get an idea of what these companies are thinking (spoiler: They're thinking about money).
Netflix starts killing its cheapest ad-free plan in June
Sony bumps Crunchyroll prices weeks after shuttering Funimation
Peacock is raising prices
Fubo cuts 19 channels
In a seemingly desperate push, many streaming services prioritize revenue and profits ahead of building the best streaming service for customers.
We could go on about how this might force people to reconsider their subscriptions, but we should publish before another service makes yet another policy change.
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Late-stage capitalism going full steam ahead.
Where the fuck is this all heading? There isn't any new medium to deliver media to people that will revolutionize content delivery. It's already delivered directly to the device its viewed on. Back to $20 per individual movie like DVDs were before streaming took off? Except 10 more steps away from actual ownership of what you buy?
ref. Sony/Crunchyroll/Funimation â Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible âforeverâ
Stop giving these clown your hard earned money... They don't respect the paying customer.
And this was exactly how they had it designed.
We all thought we were free from the burden of cable television.
But we should've known that while Netflix was doing it's song and dance having been the cheapest subscription for years, everything was gearing up to be exactly like cable television.
I would enjoy PlutoTV and Tubi while you can, if I were you if you're not already. You never know when they'll start having to unroll tier systems or just drop out completely.
We could go on about how this might force people to reconsider their subscriptions...
That's one way to put it lol.
They let people believe that streaming is cheap, but it is not. A server can send streams to many people at the same time, but not so many as it seems and sever up time is a cost, in terms of energy and in terms of sysadmin time. Maintenance of the network is also expensive, especially in the US where most of the people live in low density neighbourhoods.
To that you have to add the cost of the big data servers that check everything people look at and profile their customers.
The dirty cheap subscriptions were meant to attract new customers, the service was heavily subsidized. The companies looked profitable just because other companies bought more ad space than necessary. Overadvertising is the preferred method to give stealth subsidies, but it is a cost for the other businesses of the network. After a while they have to shift those costs to the customers.