Point is this: the nielsens were a wonky system for a million reasons I don't have time to get into (I mean, the studios were the ones paying them soooo) but having an even semi-democratic reporting system on artistic success was critical. Same goes for box office.
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Because it provides the single most important factor of leverage for artists and unions to find some stake in their own success.
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But in a world where everything is turning to streaming and subscription models, the company cash flow now has nothing to do with your given success, so they paint you one way or the other to help their $$$ side.
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I understand some of what I'm saying is generalization and there's a lot of little finicky points in this. There are people are genuine damn experts in all of it (and fighting accordingly). But this is absolutely the broad strokes of what is happening.
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What's hilarious is the studios would have LOVED to have this years ago because it meant they wouldn't have to have shared backend, etc. But now we're undoing basically everything those artists and unions fought for.
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"But but but please tell me it's good for consumers?" Sorry, it just means your favorite shows are going to get cancelled more and for less good reasons. Also movies don't make economic sense for streamers soooooooo not looking great on that front either.
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I recently read that streaming services (maybe just Netflix?) don't want a show to go for more than 2 seasons, because anything after that doesn't help bring in new subscribers. So there's that, possibly, as well.
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The thing that drives me nuts is that's not true. They just haven't made GREAT shows. Look at breaking bad and HBO efforts were ratings went up up up and helped the brand. They're making crap and are like "huh! guess no one wants long shows" and its like YOU FOOLS
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For a streaming service like netflix, isn’t there like a cap on how many total subscribers there are (like not a literal cap but the Earths population is finite at any given moment) shouldn’t they eventually care more about retaining customers over bringing in new ones?
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Like people getting frustrated and canceling a service because shows they like keep getting canceled seems something your buusiness model should account for...
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The problem is the streaming wars are still in the "take up market" blitz, but of all the competition, Netflix will be hit hardest by this. And when it hits, it's going to hit HARD.
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By the end of the decade the streaming bubble will burst and our whole industry will be fucked.
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