Streaming Platforms
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White: Streamers Need Live Sports Because Viewers Must Watch Immediately
“So when you think about those two shows, I can go watch the whole season tonight, or I can watch it three years from now. It's always gonna be there. Sports, live sports is a destination. You have to watch it now. Yep. Exactly. So it always made sense for stre…”
Zimmer: Consolidation among streaming platforms constricts opportunities for artists
“And now the power of the platforms is so consolidated and the way they make deals and the way they think about our clients. Has really constricted the opportunity for artists.”
Andreessen: Streaming platforms cap filmmaker profits at a 10 percent margin
“With like a cost plus model a lot of the time. And so you make the movie and you turn around and you sell it for like a 10% profit margin to a streamer. And then there's no aftermarket because it's just a tile on the streaming service, right?”
Cohen: Streaming platform recommendation algorithms are overrated and ineffective
“And frankly, I, the quality of those algorithms is I think slightly overrated because it takes some of those streaming platforms, the stuff they offer me as the things they like to watch, they don't often offer me something I really want to watch. So I think t…”
Cohen predicts streaming platforms will undergo market consolidation due to subscription fatigue
“Not all of these platforms are going to survive. There's just too many, you know, you've got to have too many subscriptions. It's too much for people. It's too expensive. It's too confusing. So I think you're gonna see consolidation there, which is in the inte…”
Andreessen: Streaming shifted Hollywood content creation to a cost-plus model
“Today, if you make a movie or TV show for streaming, you get paid a flat fee to make that movie or TV show. And then there's never any upside after that. And it, right. And in fact, a lot of the production of what's happened in Hollywood has gone over to what …”
Sivanandan: Mystery and drama packed with stars maximize greenlight chances
“Some of it is like formulae, because we've known that, you know, genres like mystery, murder, etc., they tend to, or this whole drama piece, they tend to sort of travel more. So, you'll get a better chance of getting greenlit there. Throw in a couple of big na…”
Evans: Expanding streaming catalogs creates negative returns to scale for users
“There's a sort of diminishing, not just diminishing return, but almost kind of a negative return to scale, that after a certain point, adding more TV shows, actually make, does, certainly doesn't make the experience better, and might even make it worse. Becaus…”