The strip club analogy from earlier explains what you’re saying perfectly.
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Disney+ and Hulu Ad-Free Pricing Going Up in October, Password Sharing Crackdown Coming
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The strip club analogy from earlier explains what you’re saying perfectly.
One thing that is now certainly gone: product pitch persons. That's now an AI job. No more Toyota Jan, ATT Lilly, Progressive Flo. They require salaries, and can become controversial. Think Subway Jared.
I'm going to keep my Disney+ / Hulu bundle (without ESPN+)
But, I must agree, Pluto TV has been kicking ass in the last year or so. That old school Star Trek channel is a staple in my house.
Disney’s streaming services aren’t making a profit, they’re losing money. Company stocks are way down. Disney was going in such a downward direction that Iger had to come out of retirement and lay off thousands of workers, cancel projects, and revamp their strategy.
Are you absolutely sure about your statements?
Yer, I’m a Trekkie. Looked forward to Picard. It eventually aired here as 5.1, BUT only in German. Original in English remains 2.0…cannot do it .
Streaming is a classic example of dangling the carrot from the stick. A bunch of ppl bought into it early on due to very low prices and now that prices are going up, they feel outraged and offended. Streaming platforms are slowly becoming the classic cable companies of today...offering hundreds of channels that you don't want and raising prices to subsidize said channels
Or maybe..... The fact that they have stupid huge budgets for **** shows (looking at you Secret Invasion) is part of the reason. Giving a series a 200+ million budget is crazy (and it wasn't even a good series at that). What they need to do is be realistic with their budgets and costs instead of ballooning everything up (same with most movie budgets these days). Blaming a previous administration for something 3 years down the road is laughable (especially when the majority of the reason everything is so expensive now is from corporate greed and trying to milk every cent out of their customer base).
I pay $39 for 300/300 (FIOS), $9 for Paramount plus and I have Amazon Prime (I don't count that as I have always had it). We also have IPTV for $10 a month, Pluto (free), IMDB (Free), Crackle (Free), TeaTV (free), HGTVgo (free) and so many more---Total $58 per month and more choices than I had with basic cable @ $250 per month.
The company predicted (wrongly to be fair) that it would make at least $200,000,001 based on viewing and subscriptions to Mouse+. It happens. Look at Bud Light after just one custom made can.
Or it could be a “loss leader.” This is still common even in the current recession-like economy we have to face as a direct result of the money elves and multiple other factors. Many of the old five-and-dimes had a restaurant that was a “loss leader.” (The only exception I’ve ever found was G. C. Murphy)
I mean this article did just say that they reported a $512 million loss, down from $1.2 billion loss the year before. It’s not really corporate greed when you’re losing that much money. People need to realize that this model is just not sustainable and unfortunately is not gonna last much longer. So I guess enjoy it while you can lol.
Taking the AT&T (DirecTV) way of dealing with losses. That worked so well to increase subscriber counts. /s
Sorry but I have to disagree with this thesis. Every share represents a potential non-paying viewer. My account is on the Apple TVs that my parents have and my in-laws have so that when my kids are visiting if they need to just chill out and watch a movie they can. The number of times either home watched something on their own is near zero, and the number of things the number of accounts Disney+ would have had from them if I didn't subscribe would still be zero.
When Netflix and Hulu started, the entire friggin point was that you had two stops to watch everything you wanted.
Companies saw this and said, “WE WANT ALL OF THE MONEY AND NETFLIX/HULU CAN SUCK EGGS.” And…here we are with bajillions of subscription services. It’s all about the bottom line as many have already said.
Now the bottom line is sucking because the model of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pay services was never sustainable and no consumer that isn’t stupidly rich would subscribe to all of them anyway.
That is part of the appeal of Max right now. ONE STOP = HBO, DC, Discovery, etc. I can cancel Disco+ and not miss it because everything I see there is on Max.
Disney just needs to 100% consolidate into Hulu or Mouse+. Consumers are not spending for it anymore as 200 separate things.
please think of Iger's salary. we all need to make sacrifices.
Cable companies are loving this I am sure, pretty soon people will be jumping back into their arms.
And it's not the increase itself. They do it with some other crap at the same time. And it's how often and by how much places raise prices anymore
I cut ties with DirecTV after 27 years, almost all of it on their top tier package (most recently my bills were $220 a month...). I stayed due to inertia, familiarity, and getting all the premiums under one login. I left to follow Sunday Ticket and am trying to stay on the basic package to see what I actually miss. I glanced at all the add on fees and it certainly looked that by the time I added everything everything that my bill wouldn't really be all that much different.
Looks like I’ll be downgrading to the the ad-supported bundle once the money back offer I get with my AMEX card is up in November. Fortunately, these companies make it easy to switch between plans, so I can switch to the ad-free plan if there is something my wife and I want to watch on a particular month.
That’s a pretty **** take dude.
If they didn’t want people sharing passwords, maybe they shouldn’t have LITERALLY ENCOURAGED it beforehand. At the very least, they could have limited the accounts to 2 or 3 IP addresses or something reasonable instead of snatching it from everyone.
It’s just corporate greed, and it has nothing to do with Actors & Writers getting paid more. “Inflation” is just a scapegoat for them to justify it. And it will continue to get worse, and these companies will continue to overreach because people like you really don’t have a backbone to stand on anything and would rather shrug their shoulders, lie down and take whatever non-sense is thrown at you.
Can you show me where in Netflix's official policy that they literally encouraged people to share passwords? I get that there was a joke tweet and all, but can we get more official on Netflix designing their platform specifically so that many people would share a single account, even in different locations?
"Corporate Greed," god that's getting old. Companies exist to make money. I pay companies money when I think they make good content for a good value. I don't subscribe to all streaming services, just the ones that makes sense for me. Would I like for things to be cheaper? Sure, I'll never complain about that, but have things haven't gotten to a point where I think prices are outrageous? Not even close. If they have though, most people will cancel their subscriptions and the company will be forced to re-think their pricing. How likely is that to happen, do you think?
At the end of the day, I haven't seen a single argument for why people should be allowed to share passwords with each other that didn't amount to "I want to spend less," which is a flimsy argument.
It is but not worth the price for one show. Already watched Disco.
It is if the account is only intended for one person 🤷♂️Sharing a password with a family member for an account that I am paying for is not stealing.
How is this even controversial?
I'm so glad that post will haunt their asses until the end of time