Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
10-07-2022, 09:57
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
A really good service on a Sunday night but expensive at £150pa. A VPN will give you total access.
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Originally Posted by buckeye
The NFL already has a streaming service outside of the USA, its called NFL Game Pass,
in this country you can stream every game except those on Sky Sports
https://www.nflgamepass.com/en
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13-07-2022, 10:06
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Two small streamers may combine.
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DAZN in talks to buy rival Eleven Sports
Billionaire Len Blavatnik’s sport streaming company DAZN is in talks to acquire smaller rival Eleven Sports, according to people with knowledge of the details.
Eleven Sports was founded by Italian entrepreneur and Leeds United Football Club owner Andrea Radrizzani. The business consists of live sports streaming, documentary maker Neo Studios and a digital marketing entity called Team Whistle.
The acquisition of Team Whistle last year created a business with revenues of more than $300mn in the year to the end of June 2021. Radrizzani founded Eleven in 2015 after selling sports rights agency MP & Silva to a Chinese buyer for more than $1bn.
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https://www.ft.com/content/bc706d82-...7-493db697e905
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13-07-2022, 12:10
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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DAZN are certainly not small not globally anyway.
Also that link is behind a paywall here's a better one https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/...streaming-ott/
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14-07-2022, 12:09
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
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To some extent you're right as it has a global presence. But it's small compared to its competitors like Apple, Amazon, Comcast incl Sky, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery.
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14-07-2022, 12:27
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
To some extent you're right as it has a global presence. But it's small compared to its competitors like Apple, Amazon, Comcast incl Sky, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery.
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Yes I’d agree that while not available universally major sports rights owners in regions/some countries like Sky, ESPN or even to a lesser degree BEIN Media Group are larger.
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14-07-2022, 13:37
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To some extent you're right as it has a global presence. But it's small compared to its competitors like Apple, Amazon, Comcast incl Sky, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery.
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Oh totally agree with you in that comparason.
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14-07-2022, 13:46
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Originally Posted by jfman
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Not really. They have added an ad-funded tier. The ad-free subscription isn't going anywhere.
Hopefully it won't be the con that NOW TV's Boost is, where I pay extra for HD(!) and an ad-free service yet I still have to sit through promotions for Sky channels before Sky Atlantic programmes.
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14-07-2022, 13:58
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A commitment is a commitment, and it’s the first slide down the slope of these companies - who ostensibly are not making money finding ways to monetise their most valuable asset: your data.
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14-07-2022, 14:35
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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One day when I’m sufficiently bored I’ll look up my post from several years ago, in which I said this move was a racing certainty sooner or later. Plus of course the flat denials from the usual suspects.
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14-07-2022, 21:18
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I'm surprised Netflix has gone down the ad route before offering discounts to keep subscribers who want to cancel.
I still haven't heard of anyone getting a special offer/discount direct from Netflix. It may be discounted when bundled with Sky/VM etc but nothing direct
Good tactic? Or plain stubborn/arrogant?
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14-07-2022, 21:39
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I'm surprised Netflix has gone down the ad route before offering discounts to keep subscribers who want to cancel.
I still haven't heard of anyone getting a special offer/discount direct from Netflix. It may be discounted when bundled with Sky/VM etc but nothing direct
Good tactic? Or plain stubborn/arrogant?
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It really works for virgins customer relationship, see it as opening a real can of worms
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14-07-2022, 22:49
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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I'm surprised Netflix has gone down the ad route before offering discounts to keep subscribers who want to cancel.
I still haven't heard of anyone getting a special offer/discount direct from Netflix. It may be discounted when bundled with Sky/VM etc but nothing direct
Good tactic? Or plain stubborn/arrogant?
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Direct word would spread and everyone would pile in. Doing it online would make it so easy as to become the de facto price whether someone was even half considering cancelling.
Sky do this with Now, but it’s a risky strategy to game out 100% of your customer base with.
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15-07-2022, 19:20
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by jfman
A commitment is a commitment, and it’s the first slide down the slope of these companies - who ostensibly are not making money finding ways to monetise their most valuable asset: your data.
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A commitment? How does this change of tack affect anyone adversely? Had they decided to show ads on the existing subscription tiers, a lot of angry people would be protesting.
What they are doing is giving access to people who do not want to pay the full subscription. Nothing wrong with that.
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One day when I’m sufficiently bored I’ll look up my post from several years ago, in which I said this move was a racing certainty sooner or later. Plus of course the flat denials from the usual suspects.
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Yes, and that included me, for two reasons. First, I thought it would be a very wrong move to subject us all to ads when a great many people were glad to escape them with the streamers. Second, the CEO said that Netflix wouldn’t do it.
Well, now they’ve decided to go for it because circumstances have changed. But as I said to jfman, it’s of no consequence because existing subscribers are not affected.
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15-07-2022, 19:47
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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How does this change of tack affect anyone adversely?
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The same can be asked of channels maintaining a linear presence and streaming, a proposition you so vigorously oppose.
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it’s of no consequence because existing subscribers are not affected.
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Which cannot be said of linear channels closing. There are clear losers in this scenario, and no winners.
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