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Global Video Streaming Market is Largely Controlled by the Usual Suspects (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Weeks after Steven Spielberg took a swing at Netflix and Hulu, the Hollywood legend had a change of heart about the medium, appearing at Apple's star-studded event to help the iPhone-maker launch a streaming service. The embrace comes as people are increasingly cutting their cable connections and moving to streaming services for their entertainment needs. Just last week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), a trade body that represents major Hollywood studios and Netflix, reported that video streaming services now have more subscribers worldwide (613.3 million users) than those with a cable connection (some 556 million users). Another disruption is nigh. Revenue generated by streaming services is set to surpass worldwide theatrical revenue this year, according to research firm Ampere Analysis. Media and technology companies are naturally fighting for a piece of that pie.
Here's a look at some of the biggest rivals, the markets they operate in, and how they are trying to win customers. At the top of the list is Netflix, which began offering a streaming service in 2007, long before most companies even considered getting in the ring. This gave Netflix enough breathing room to bulk up its content catalog through licensing deals with cable networks and content studios. Twelve years later, Netflix has amassed 139 million subscribers in over 190 nations and territories. Following in Netflix's footsteps is Amazon, which has also made its Prime Video streaming service available in over 190 nations and territories. [...] While YouTube is the most-consumed video streaming app in most markets, Netflix is leading in revenue worldwide. As of 2018, Netflix generated more revenue than any other video streaming service -- and in some cases, more than any app in any category -- in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., and Vietnam, among other markets, according to App Annie.
Here's a look at some of the biggest rivals, the markets they operate in, and how they are trying to win customers. At the top of the list is Netflix, which began offering a streaming service in 2007, long before most companies even considered getting in the ring. This gave Netflix enough breathing room to bulk up its content catalog through licensing deals with cable networks and content studios. Twelve years later, Netflix has amassed 139 million subscribers in over 190 nations and territories. Following in Netflix's footsteps is Amazon, which has also made its Prime Video streaming service available in over 190 nations and territories. [...] While YouTube is the most-consumed video streaming app in most markets, Netflix is leading in revenue worldwide. As of 2018, Netflix generated more revenue than any other video streaming service -- and in some cases, more than any app in any category -- in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., and Vietnam, among other markets, according to App Annie.
After watching Netflix for a while, I am starting to wonder if what makes more sense is to make high quality movies for a platform like Netflix, then if it's widely liked release it into the theaters - people who really liked it might want to see it on a big screen (or 3D), people who hadn't seen it would be drawn to subscribe to your service... and on tap of all that the theaters could be more sure people actually liked what they were gong to put in a theater.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Theaters are dead. The screens, sound, seats, and snacks are better at home.
The ONLY reason we're seeing Avengers: Endgame in a theater is because we can't watch it on Netflix.
With all the usual evilnesses. Like exorbitant prices, nightmariast terms, and no alternative to choose from.
The market demands it. The market always demands it. Free market capitalism is an oxymoron, as it by definition must progress towards monopolism. And then crash. That is the only way, infinite exponential growth can be achieved. Which is what is demanded by both shareholders and simply competition, who will do it themselves, replacing you, if you refuse.
Now I sound like a street preacher. "Mark my word, ye heathen!" :)
But it's true though. Sadly.
Make it easier than piracy and they will come. It’s 2019 I should be able to stream any video ever made on any device.
I am an outlier.
Then why the hell is it news?
I recently realized this:
TV, games, tar fandom, sports fandom, these royalty / gossip rags, and let's plays. ...
They all are simply the act of putting yourself in the shoes of others, so you can feel success if they do, when your own life is a failure in comparison.
And sadly, by doing that, your life is much more likely to become even more of a failure. At the very least, it will not exactly improve.
... but it certainly wasn't brain elixir! ;)
Netflix will be the next cable....The market demands it. The market always demands it. Free market capitalism is an oxymoron
Not at all. Look at what is happening already.
Yes Netflix has a lot of content and is the clear leader. But it's not like Amazon does not have a lot of good video exclusives. Whole fields of desireable content like Star Trek and Star Wars are not from Netflix.
Now Apple is getting the in game with unknown quality product, but we do know they are spending a ton to try and make something that appeals.
In every way what is happening now with streaming is vastly better than what cable gave us - and that is because streaming video is the ultimate free market example, whereas almost all cable is an example of what happens when you regulate away competition.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I certainly don't go to theaters as much as I did even five years ago. Sometimes the experience is good (watching Deadpool in the theater was fun just to share in the general good feelings the movie generated in the audience), but considering going out for one movie costs me and my girlfriend about four months worth of Netflix subscription, and about double what I'd pay to watch a newish release on Google Play or itunes, yeah, the argument for going to theater is becoming harder to justify.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Go outside and build a patio; drink some beer with your buds and find women to fuck (willingly[, obviously]).
Live life a little, you couch potatoes.
Goddamn!
TV is boring.
Other than Captian marvel and endgame(I waited for infinity war at home) I have been to less than 1 movie a year for the last ten years in theaters
The only reason I am not waiting for those 2 is I don't want to deal with spoilers for 4 months waiting for the streaming rentals to be released.
What gets me is that producers are blocking streaming rights for various sites. Amazon doesn't have a star is born, or Aquaman yet. But other places do.
With diseny + the situation is going to get worse. As companies are created subscription services after binge watching became a thing. So you will sign up binge watch a month and disconnect. They won't get the revune they are used to or forcasting
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Yep
Ohh! My fucking sides.
You went to the cinema to watch CAPESHIT.
la la la lmao
Well, we're in the middle of the disruption. I suspect we'll all be stuck with two or three streaming service subscriptions by the time it's done, but really, if I have to pay $50 for streaming services so I can watch the shows and movies I want to watch, then I'll probably almost never walk inside a movie theater again. I do not see how the Hollywood distribution model will function in the long term, and in a way, the big studios like Disney and the networks trying to lock everyone in to their own streaming offerings will only hasten the death of the movie theater. It is sad, in a way, because there was something unique to watching a movie in the theater, an audience experience you don't get at home, but to pay $50+ for a couple of seats, overpriced popcorn and some asshole surfing Facebook on his phone directly in front of me, yeah, I'll take the movie money and get a subscription to the streaming services I want.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
There are plenty of cable and satellite packages that include streaming services. Most people that subscribe to streaming services will probably own an internet package. That internet package might possibly be bundled with cable services. The use of these services are not mutally exclusive. The author might as well be claiming that higher cereal sales are threatening the milk industry.
1) Sell everything at a loss.
2) Wait for Amazon (oh, and Apple now too) to go bust.
3) Profit!
Good luck with that.
The embrace comes as people are increasingly cutting their cable connections and moving to streaming services for their entertainment needs.
Comcast will just charge you a broadcast fee! It was just over $1.00 when they initiated it in 2014, but it is running about $20.00 per month today. They can raise the fee anytime that they want, and you have to pay it or face an even higher Internet bill.
Watching made up stories about made up characters has been gradually losing its appeal to me. In the depths of Canadian winters I certainly consume more entertainment than in the summer, but my total screen time has been falling for years. What remains is Youtube DIY stuff and social documentaries. I'll still find time for GoT, but that's the only fictional series that I'm looking forward to, and I doubt I'll start it until long after the whole season has aired.
Right now, I'd much rather spend time with my family, work on our house, put in fruit trees, work in the garden, raise livestock, or fly an FPV quadcopter than sit in front of a screen. Taking one example from my list that may resonate here: Flying FPV and the activities surrounding it. An hour spent building/repairing quadcopters, searching satellite imagery for interesting locations, driving and hiking to/from locations with my boys and/or dog, checking out any flight footage, and flying itself is far more fulfilling than an hour spent watching fiction. And that's just a past-time. Doing something truly useful is on another level entirely.
"They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
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Theaters were invented back in the day when people couldn't afford to own their own projector, sound system, and screen. Instead, one person would buy those (expensive) items, and rent out seats to allow people to watch movies on their equipment.
TVs partially displaced theaters, but not entirely because the image and sound quality wasn't as good, and the screen wasn't as big. HDTVs and especially 4k TVs pretty much match theaters in image quality. A lot of people's sound systems now rival a theater's (without a screaming baby in back). And typical screen sizes are starting to pushing into the 70-80 inch range. Meanwhile 4k projectors are approaching $2k. It won't be much longer before the only reason to watch a movie at a theater will be for the social aspect. And I suspect that will be partially offset by voice chat technology used in games allowing multiple people to watch the same movie together in their homes, while being able to make comments to each other in real-time as if they were watching it in the same room. (The current generation of kids seems to prefer virtual social interaction over the Internet over physical social interaction.)
The only theaters I see sticking around are IMAX and 3D (since 3D TVs seem to have died off).
Yes, they are, but they will consistently suppress anyone pointing out that despite the "white" boogieman, the majority of these companies are kosher.
You think you know who they are. But they are all being manipulated by the guy with the fake limp.
Have gnu, will travel.
Hand *me* the keys, you F***g c***ker
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For my viewing, it all has really changed. Unless that content get's politicised, I don't even hear about it, living largely in an ad free life, screaming video ads, just don't see them. I find out what the latest movies are from other sites that provide streaming services of the latest content with reviews that are much more honest, they are reviewing free content so no profit lying, you know the ones, they carry all sorts of shonky ads, that you should generally avoid clicking but it is pretty much the best way to see what is on and what people actually think about it.
Content has been getting worse and worse, formulaic with no real stories and lots of special effects as those effects get cheaper and cheaper, you get more and more of them and less and less story, no loss the story is usually a Jar Jar Abrams style shit show, just barely enough story to string the action scenes together hitting specific plot points without actually telling a story and generally not making much sense or have much basis in reason or understanding (reflecting the intellect of it's creators, high on bullshit and low on smarts).
Netflix, because I am too lazy to get up and swap DVDs that I already own and have yet to bother to shift too hard disk. Most of the time I am just sort of watching content, whilst actually interacting with the internet.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Hulu will never be global. In fact, I don't think it will ever be available beyond the US or Japan.