I sometimes feel like U.S streaming companies only consider other American streaming companies as a threat...But in order to be truly sustainable I think streaming companies will have to successfully expand internationally as well. Read that this company called Iflix is doing well in Asia would love to get insight if anyone here knows about them! https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/22/streaming-video-service-iflix-raises-more-than-50-million-led-by-fidelity-international-as-it-prepares-to-go-public/
Btw this happens with everything in usa. Tinder was a big thing in here until you realize in europe you have bigger players. Then you have doordash that I seriously dont understand what is that big deal about, in europe you have dozens of such startups
There are dozens of food delivery services in the us too. What IS the big deal with doordash?
There are only 2 countries in the world that can support a profitable streaming service without significant international revenue, US and China. Services originated outside these 2 markets will not gain enough scale to survive onslaughts from competitions.
This is true. Even then, only in the US are we used to paying for content and pay as much as we do. It’s unheard of to be paying $100/month for cable bill Anywhere else
They probably do better in Africa than they do in South East Asia actually.
Why would they be a threat? They are licensing content from us and other media companies (mostly with their own streaming services) and distributing it in emerging countries where we can’t be bothered.
They aren’t doing well. Not even close to profitable as they have an ad supported model. The only thing they can hope for is getting bought by a major studio