Streaming Services
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Iovine: Record labels will not launch streaming services anytime soon
“I don't think the labels are going to start streaming services. You know, not in any time short in the next few years anyway.”
Gilbert: Winning streaming services must offer broad, 'kitchen sink' content catalogs
“If you want to operate a streaming service that gets to scale, and if you're going to operate a streaming service, it has to get to scale since the fixed costs are so high. Then you must have a broad set of content. That is weird. That it must be a broad set o…”
Levi: Streaming Services Will Let Users Generate Custom Movies
“Every studio, I firmly believe this, and this is gonna happen very quickly.
Every studio, you'll be able to go to their streaming service.
You'll be able to go to Disney, Disney Plus, and you'll be able to go to the Disney Plus Creators Corner, where you get t…”
Rizik: AI music will constitute 30% of streaming releases within two years
“My fear is that if you look at the universe of new music coming out on the streaming services, the percentage that is artificially created
Is going to get pretty high.
It's not even clear what it is right now, but the thought that in a couple years we could be…”
Ross Martin claims Known launched nine of the last twelve streaming services.
“So we've launched nine of the last 12 streaming services.”
A24 executive says streaming apps want to integrate user generated content
“I was meeting with an A-Twenty-Four executive the other day, and she was telling me that in their conversation with the streaming services, all of them are sort of pondering how to include like streamed first person POV or user generated content into their sys…”
Iovine: Music streaming services have no margins because they lack content ownership
“So now you have two companies with two different agendas and you don't have an audience and the streaming services don't own the content. So they're not making any money. There's no margins in it. So it's a goddamn mess in my opinion.”
Burns: Streaming platforms offer $30M, but only PBS allows 10-year timelines
“There's no other place where any of these films could have been made. You know, I could go out to a you know, a Streaming service or to a premium cable channel and say, hey, I'm making a film on Vietnam, and with my track record, they'd say, how much do you ne…”
Artists report Bandcamp revenue is orders of magnitude above streaming services
“We hear all the time, mostly through Twitter, that, you know, the money that artists make through Bandcamp is orders of magnitude bigger than what they're making from streaming services that it's how they're, you know, paying rent and getting equipment and buy…”
Hastings: Netflix went vertical because legacy studios would stop licensing content
“By 2011, 20 12, we were realizing that many of the firms that we were buying from were eventually going to want to run their own streaming service, and that we had, we did not have a reliable supply, and so there's a bit of the burn your boats Cortez model, wh…”