What are your predictions for streaming in the next few years?
Jul 6, 2019
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It’s an exciting time right now in the streaming industry.
Disney is launching their hotly anticipated streaming service later this year.
Warner will quickly launch their own big service shortly after that.
NBCUniversal will then launch their own service end of next year.
Netflix is rapidly bleeding licensed content, evolving to a company that can (hopefully) survive on just their original content.
Hulu is still trying to figure out where they belong, now that the fellowship has disbanded and they are fully owned by Disney.
Amazon is slowly growing bigger by the day.
And then big players like Apple and Facebook and YouTube are entering into the fray.
How do you see things shaking out?
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Disney and Amazon have an incredibly huge warchest and can offer quality content at competitive price points.
Netflix Originals are the jam. Some of them have cult followings. I’m not an expert in marketing, but I foresee a drop in monthly subscription costs as soon as Disney launches its own service. As long as NFLX keeps producing/creating good content and maintains its current licensing standards, it will stay in the game.
Apple is heavily restricted in itself. Youtube originals cater to a very specific audience, and I personally don’t know anyone who actually has youtube red.
Warner and NBCU might not be able to attract an audience on their own, and might tie up with Amazon Prime as a bundled streaming service, like Showtime and HBO.
Best guess :)
Now a dozen of them exist and need a subscription, it's getting unaffordable.
None of the Netflix originals speak to me with the exception of Stranger Things. After I’ve binged season 3 I will cancel.
Disney is cheap enough that I will probably just do it.
I will wait and see how NBCUniversal shakes out. That has some potential.