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YouTube Secures Deal for NFL Sunday Ticket After Apple Drops Out of Negotiations
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That's not usually a YTTV specific thing -- they send out the source feeds they are provided
They paid $3B for Apple Music, and the ability to sell Beats headphones to pay for the deal after a few years.
Apple has close to 50 billion in cash. And their net worth is three trillion.That's simply not true. That's 1/3 of their entire yearly Apple TV+ budget. That means they'd either be increasing their budget substantially on a product that's far from profitable, or cutting the budget for other original content like Ted Lasso, which has more potential to attract viewers than the NFL which is only on a small part of the year.
Apple TV+ only has about 25 million subscribers (one report says an Apple employee told them less than 20 million). They're nowhere close to even breaking even on it.
So? You don't get rich being stupid with your money and just throwing it away. Why is it so many with no business sense think that just because a company has money they can afford to throw it at stupid investments and still remain successful? That's certainly not how Apple got to where they are.
Didn’t know that, not bad! I just hate the blackouts, though the Pirates aren’t really worth watching 😂
Who says it would be stupid to add potentially millions of new subscribers?
That would be up to the broadcaster (CBS/FOX) to broadcast the games in 4k. Sunday Ticket just rebroadcasts those feeds.
I don’t understand why anybody would pay for YouTube TV when it’s lower quality and more expensive than getting actual cable tv. Don’t forget there are free OTA broadcasts too. What is the incentive with YouTube?
People that enjoy football have no problem paying that. Compare that to the cost of going to a single game in person and you are saving a lot of money.
If I can’t watch every NFL game with my one YouTube Premium subscription, then I don’t care. I was so down to actually start watching football for once since it was gonna be on Apple TV, but I’m not going through all these backend hoops just to watch a game.
I absolutely love the catch up via key plays. That's a superb feature.
Nope, not embarrassing for Apple. In fact, Apple is one that ended up walking away from the deal abruptly over the weekend, and Amazon declined to take on the Sunday ticket as well, leaving Google the third tier option (the one league really didn’t want to go to, but had no other option)
And according to industrial rumors (can’t say specific source, due to confidentiality) Apple and Amazon both wanted the package free to their existing streaming service (Apple wanted it free for Apple TV+ customers but willing to make it free to Apple One Premier customers only) (Amazon wanted it free to all Prime customers) and unfortunately looks like league still wanted:
$300-400 a season from customers
And if that’s what Google agreed to, it’ll make YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channel look really really bad. (Because it’s not affordable. Many expected around $80-90 a season)
In the end, Apple was fully correct on walking away abruptly from the deal, if they wanted to protect their image of providing affordable subscription service that’s affordable to everyone.
Watch on any device (including browsers) as well as use that same account at multiple households (vacation and/or vacation houses) -- just for starters
Also no equipment fees, easy to cancel, change, pause for a while, etc -- could go on and on here
Way more flexible than Cable/Sat subs
I had the same for the 2nd half of last season. Will pick up the whole season in a few weeks.
Does it say how many years this is for? Google gets bored with things easily and I can see this going somewhere else after deal is up
All the same applies to the cable companies - they have apps too, though I’m sure YouTube’s is a bit better if my old cable company’s app is anything to go by. Functional but definitely a bit clunky.
I switched cable/internet providers several months ago however I haven’t watched a second of TV yet… that service will probably be next to go.
There are equipment fees but it still comes out less than YouTube TV. I looked into it as a possible option. Unfortunately the relatively low bitrate of the streams was a dealbreaker.
Also "the agreement didn't go through due to apparent concerns at Cupertino that it wouldn't be able to incorporate NFL Sunday Ticket into its future AR/VR platforms." Google's deal is multi-year, but I imagine Apple will go after it when they have tech that can showcase the sport in new ways.
Don’t want cable, cable too expensive, this cheaper. I’ll stick with YouTubeTV. Think you missed my point though.
Great news! Apple ****ed up MLB streaming so I'm happy to see they won't be doing the same to football games. Too bad they're doing MLS though....
No they didn't, the announcers were not good but everything else was very well done
Yeah if you‘re like me with no actual cable or Satellite service it’s 139 for every game or 80 bucks for the team of your choice. I used to pay for it but now get it for free as mentioned above. it is a nice affordable package for the amount of games you get.