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Old 20-09-2019, 19:46   #1130
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by Raider999 View Post
Well as the yanks are getting it free, I would hope we will as well!
I suspect Comcast would be reluctant to put Now TV's subscription revenue at risk by offering a subscription-free option.

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Interesting article in the FT suggesting that the only streaming service winners will be YouTube and ByteDance (a Chinese service similar to YouTube).
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Many younger viewers barely care about premium content at all. Instead they are fixated on short clips of home-made material consumed on the likes of YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok. Netflix boasts 152m subscribers. On YouTube a single personality, PewDiePie, has 101m subscribers for his cheap and controversial content.
https://www.ft.com/content/24be6faa-...b-77216ebe1f17
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