TV Industry

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Evans: Tech failed to turn TV into a single Spotify-like library
“What the tech industry always wanted to do was to turn TV into YouTube or Spotify. That is to say, or what YouTube or Spotify then became, which is you've got this single universal library of everything, and you pay one fee, that's a reasonable amount of money…”
Benedict Evans Apr 25, 2022 ▶ 16:34 Netflix isn't a tech company
Evans: Netflix is a TV company, not a software company
“I think Tesla is pretty clearly, sorry, Netflix is a TV company. All the questions that matter are TV industry questions.”
Benedict Evans Jan 31, 2021 ▶ 16:50 Telling stories with charts
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Evans: TV industry incumbents have no incentive to unbundle traditional content packages
“The current structure of the TV industry works really well for the TV industry, and nobody has a big incentive to change it.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:06 a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
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Evans: Winning in television requires massive spending, not superior tech
“You can't turn up with a better rocket. You just have to, actually, all you have to do is turn up with an enormous tank full of kerosene. You have to turn up with an awful lot of money.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:04 a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television

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