• BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    More I see stuff like this the more I believe that these services really aren’t making any money and its all smokescreen.

    Though this could also just be investors trying to drive up profits instead.

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      The latter really wouldn’t surprise me. A service could be making four times the investment in profit and many investors will still push to get a few more cents out of it at any cost.

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      1 year ago

      It was awhile ago but I read that a lot of streaming services don’t make a profit and I can understand the logic. With ads, there is a direct link between a show and it’s profits. The more people watch a show, the more people see the ads, the more a company can charge for ads on that show. Without ads it becomes difficult. It doesn’t matter if 100 people watch or a million, the profits are the same.

      I feel it’s inevitable that streaming services are going to go back to ads. It’s the better business model.