Netflix Won The Streaming Wars

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Netflix has been fending off Disney Plus, Max, Peacock and more for years now. But it is really looking like they cannot be knocked off their perch.
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[@DountHead2533]

Sony Pictures was smart. Instead of creating their own streaming service, they licensed their content to Netflix.

[@sgm2463]

Consider their back catalogue, surprised.

[@Alacaelum]

Instead of trying to enter a market they dont have any true advantage... they chose the middle ground and are cashing in without great risks, when most others are trying and failing, some with a modicum of success but still not with the control they wanted and some losing BIG BUCKS. At this point the only thing Disney has to their name with their service is strengthening the weakening of what were strong franchises.

[@McServers2000]

please god we dont need sony pictures+@@sgm2463

[@crazyinsanepenguin]

Yep, running a streaming service is crazy expensive, it makes more sense to just let Netflix pay you for your library rather than try and compete with the dozens of other streaming services that rival studios are starting

[@Code7Unltd]

You'd be wrong on that. Sony Pictures still has Crunchyroll.

[@benwasserman8223]

For other companies, streaming is a secondary business. For Netflix, it’s their primary business model. That’s why they continue to have an advantage

[@ssshar2176]

Bingo.

[@Natak222]

That's actually Netflix's biggest disadvantage because they'll always be a couple mistakes away from bankruptcy. They need an anchor like an Amazon store, an iPhone or Disney theme park to truly have any level of safety. It's why they've ventured into gaming in an attempt to diversify

[@jordanwhite352]

See Also: Google Stadia vs Nintendo

[@tz5116]

@@Natak222 both are kinda true.

[@DizzyBusy]

Disney is backed by very, very strong merchandising and theme park arms though. Disney could pull out of pretending to make movies and just churn out memes and people will still give them real hard cash for toys.

[@gnarwhal7562]

Let's be real, Netflix wins partly because they STILL have the best interface and algorithm of all the streaming sites

[@Carewolf]

Yep. The rest except Disney is abnoxious and seems to just be trying to get rid of me as a customer. So terrible. And disney is still lacking feedback on likes. The only advantage I have seen on any service over Netflix UI is the imdb/metacritic scores on Amazon which helps give you a bit of perspective on what they are recommending you, even if a generic one, and the rest of Amazon Prime UI can and probably does rot in hell.

[@jmiller6066]

Best interface is a huge deal to be honest. Even now they're practically the only ones that has IMO basic functions like playback speed control

[@luckas221a]

THIS! All other streaming services frankly look ugly and don’t have some of the basic controls Netflix has had for a long time. UX is a huge deal

[@PASH3227]

Amen! Picking out movies on other streaming services doesn't work as well. I love Amazon Primes shows but going between seasons never feels right.

[@averygriffith4199]

HBO had an awesome one before it became max The new platform made so many weird changes

[@DP-gt7sr]

Netflix is like an all you can eat restaurant. With any food under the sun. Disney is like an all you can eat ice cream shop. You can have anything you want as long as it is ice cream.

[@Art-is-craft]

Quality does matter.

[@sathrielsatanson666]

​@@Art-is-craftyes. You can have a gourmet burger and a shitty popsicle. The issue with Disney+ is their output is so limited that when they make a dud of a show it drastically limits the content people will enjoy watching. Netflix has a lot of shite, sure, but they have a bigger output, so even if say, 80% of their new 100 shows is bad you are still left with 20 quality things. So with Disney it's easy to buy a monthly subscription and see those 2-3 shows you want to watch and then you can cancel for next 6 months or so.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

you can get better quality for free, you are doing it to yourselves as far as I am concerned. i have been trying to teach you people how to side step it for years and you wont listen so go ahead and get fucked in the wallet, see if i care

[@DP-gt7sr]

Netflix is very much like blockbuster was. You have the variety and a large collection of straight to video quality bad stuff. However It has been pretty good if you like international content. I would say a lot of the international stuff is superior to North American stuff.

[@user-qt2we6mb6k]

@@DP-gt7sr Those scandinavian crime dramas/thrillers taking over my netflix

[@1kbmahan]

Netflix won the war 10 years ago. When there was no war.

[@whatalansaid]

Being first to market really makes that difference. It’s never going to be “Disney+ and Chill.”

[@tecpaocelotl]

​@@whatalansaidit's called Disney and buy everything. Lol

[@Doug87969]

@@whatalansaid Yep, its called first-movers advantage.

[@oxyht]

I mean if they have not produced their movies and with quality, their situation would have been akin to Disney. They were not doing great just 3 years ago.

[@MarkHeathcliff-bf2im]

I won this fight before it even started-Netflix

[@ms.carriage6867]

Turns out Sony were the only smart studio by not making their own streaming service and pissing all that money up the wall lol

[@Art-is-craft]

It is not expensive to make a streaming service as all the tools are out there. What makes it really expensive is the original content. Those shows can cost hundreds of millions with very little return. Sony could easily set up a hybrid streaming and rental service for pennies on the dollar.

[@ms.carriage6867]

@@Art-is-craft they already have that in a way with netflix

[@smitty1626]

Technically speaking they own crunchyroll and bought out Funimation so they're cornering the western anime streaming market. A bit more niche but still.

[@user-qt2we6mb6k]

@@Art-is-craft Is it expensive to host a streaming service mate?

[@skrotosd]

@@smitty1626yeah it’s really close to a monopoly on anime in some countries

[@rus.t]

One thing Netflix did during the height of the streaming wars is that they also invested well in international content. They included content from countries they are available in enticing local viewers, this also bolstered their content in the US as titles migrate to other streaming services. It is so effective that Disney, Amazon & WB are also announcing their own anime series, Korean thrillers, Bollywood movies etc. in the past few years.

[@marksnow7569]

Netflix always invested in international content- that was what made them so dangerous, with the potential to become the one-stop video streaming service for the whole world. If you're a screen content producer and you don't like Netflix' terms, what do you do in that future?

[@yvindvego9404]

i think its an eu law that require streaming services to host a few shows from the countries they operate in. i remember there was something like that in norway many years ago. its around the same time i saw norwegian made shows start getting advertised on netflix, hbo and viaplay.

[@reginalugo2202]

@@yvindvego9404 But they also have shows from countries that are not from the eu that most definitely don't have that law.

[@kingkiller5325]

This is something so many people ignore. I think people really underestimate how much Korean dramas and Animes have an effects on Netflix's popularity.

[@drdewott9154]

Yeah, I know Netflix is a big player in the Danish film and streaming industry since nearly every Danish movie that gets exported abroad does so through Netflix. Netflix even cofunds some shows or additional seasons to existing shows like Borgen. They took the easy pickings and invested heavily in content already made in foreign markets to North America like the many Danish shows like Borgen, Broen, The Seaside Hotel, not to mention all the Danish movies. I mean Toscana is probably the most recent example I can think of of a Danish movie becoming a mega hit on Netflix.

[@GreggNowhere]

Netflix is one of the only streamers that does (to my knowledge) localised contentt for non-English speaking countries. I know we sorta see the entertainment industry as a US/Canada/UK-centric beast but the fact that you can boot up that app and see a Polish Crime Drama or a French mystery show or a Korean game show gives it things that almost no other streamer can give aside from maybe Prime.

[@Handles_are_garbage]

Amazon Prime Video, at least in Japan, excels at this.

[@Dave102693]

I watch most of the international lgbt content on Prime Video

[@user-eu2dk6ks2v]

Same in the philippines

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

what is the name of that polish crime drama and french mystery show

[@coolnamepending.....6955]

One of the main reasons Netflix won was because of its international catalog. When the writers and actors strike happened Netflix wasn’t stressed, they just redirected their focus to their k drama, anime and reality tv departments. During the strike I watched ONE k drama and now I’m getting notifications to a bunch of foreign shows, not complaining tho they’re way more entertaining than majority western shows out rn

[@grfrjiglstan]

Netflix is like that one guy in a Saw trap that does nothing and lets all the other victims run ahead of him and get slaughtered, making him the winner.

[@jameswatson5807]

Dam thats sounds mean 😁😁

[@RockHoward256]

Bro is Luigi in those Mario party videos of Luigi winning without doing anything

[@madisonmeyers3907]

@@RockHoward256now I get it

[@lordnemo6401]

People are always forgetting that Netflix has the best interface and legit has it own button on all of the smart tv so it’s easy to use for both children and the elderly

[@marksnow7569]

Yes, and all over the world, local TV companies with their own streaming services are absolutely furious because it's not economically viable to give them their own remote buttons. Globalisation is the ultimate economy of scale

[@LisaF777]

Literally. I find the other platforms hard to navigate!! They are also slower for some reason. Netflix is always ready!

[@coolnamepending.....6955]

I’ve had 3 smart tvs all have had the Netflix button in the remote and the Netflix app icon already there in the pop up settings thingy

[@Einsteinbomb]

So we're back to 2009 Netflix where they had most shows and movies from every major Hollywood player.

[@ScreenSage_YT]

Not quite, but we're getting there.

[@vijaz5559]

Hopefully its getting there. Getting bored by too many streaming services

[@marksnow7569]

Not just every Hollywood player; every Korean, Japanese, British, French .... In a future where the 2009 Netflix plan has fully succeeded, any screen content producer with an ambition to reach home screens, anywhere in the world, has to agree to their terms. Now that they have an advert-supported subscription option they're even competing directly for revenue with traditional commercial TV broadcasters.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

I think we all thought Disney would win, simply due to how many brands it owns. We didn't think how much those brands would become diluted thus less desirable over the years. Netflix wins the war because of one simple reason: it's neutral ground. You wouldn't catch _Avengers: Endgame_ on Max, nor would you catch _House of the Dragon_ on Disney+. But Netflix could theoretically house both because it's its own brand. It isn't tied to any other company, which is WHY you COULD see _Titanic_ or _Spiderverse_ or _Super Mario Bros_ all on that site despite being owned by different companies. In being neutral ground, it allows for wholly original shows to be housed there, as well as shows or movies based on existing IP like Sonic Prime or the live action Avatar the Last Airbender. Where some of these other streaming apps like Max, Peacock or Paramount Plus could indeed fall by the wayside...I don't see Netflix going anywhere any time soon.

[@Chairemy]

I never thought Disney would be anything but a secondary service. No other successful streaming service owned all of their content and Disney has a brand image to uphold locking them out of a giant portion of mature oriented content.

[@SuperOtakuKyo]

This is a good point I always thought about but could never properly articulate

[@BenHopkins1000]

Prime Video would like to know your location…

[@jbearclowater]

@@Chairemy outside of the US and a very small handful of other territories, all the Hulu stuff is on Disney+ though, so mature content on Disney+ isn't that strange to a lot of their audience.

[@jbearclowater]

@@BenHopkins1000 You make a good point with Prime also being a neutral ground, but I think the issue Prime faces is that a lot of people see Prime as Amazon first, and a streamer second. Netflix as a brand is seen as THE streaming servicefor a lot of people, and I don't think people necessarily think of Prime the same way. I think the only real challenger to Netflix in the long run is Prime, but they still have a long way to go. What Prime really needs is a HUGE hit that everyone rushes to see, like Netflix manages to do at least reasonably often. Stuff like Stranger Things, Wednesday, Squid Game, etc. were all explosive in popularity, and while Prime has made quite a few good shows, and some decently popular ones, nothing they've made has really captured the cultural zeitgeist the way Netflix has. Stuff like The Boys is great, better than a lot of stuff Netflix produces, but the violence and maturity really limit the audience and turn off a lot of people, and I think a lot of their other hits have been pretty niche in audience overall, like Wheel of Time or Jack Ryan. I think Prime really banked on Rings of Power being that mega-hit for them, but the numbers that have since come out show that isn't the case (reports say roughly only a third of those who started the show actually finished the season).

[@dudujencarelli]

It's not just the content. Netflix has by far the best, most user friendly interface of all the streaming services. And it has zero bugs and glitches. Any TV or monitor runs Netflix without a hitch. It's because Netflix was a tech company first. None of the other streaming platforms can claim that - even Apple TV+ is behind on that curve.

[@markwalker7286]

I completely agree I rarely have issues with Netflix. I still haven't seen poker face because when I went to watch it would not play on any of my TV. I have had the same with some paramount shows. And for the love can they include a preview box when fast forwarding. There are some companies that don't even do that.

[@BasicBro99]

The user interface on Netflix I find much easier to navigate as well. On other services I have to hunt for what I want to watch, Netflix it’s right there. Frankly that is a reason enough to choose Netflix over other services if they have similar enough offerings. Plus less crashes and other issues.

[@Joaquin-xq5wo]

not sure about other countries but im from the Philippines and i completely agree. In terms of functionality i would rank them 1. Netflix 2. Disney plus 3. HBO GO 4. Amazon prime these are the ones I used. Netflix wins by a land slide i almost never have issues with it, while some more issues with disney and hbo but still good overall while Amazon prime literally never worked.

[@anthonyd.1428]

I remember some TV's had a Netflix button on the remote. Couldn't get more easier than that.

[@leilazerrouki7040]

I can't watch Netflix on my computer, it keeps giving me an error. When I searched their website it showed they were aware of this error on window 11 but didn't know why and were investigating... Disney+ is the one without glitches and Netflix is basically unusable right now for me.

[@nightprowler1]

Every major hollywood studio starting their own streaming service was the stupidest thing hollywood ever did.

[@jameswatson5807]

why they want a a slice.

[@amalgama-dette1430]

​@@jameswatson5807I don't know if English is not your first language but why is used for asking and Because it's using on regular sentences, if you speak Spanish both of them are "por qué" pero una es de pregunta y la otra no

[@dxtrum]

​@@amalgama-dette1430or they just missed a comma after why

[@carlosleyva-calistenia6400]

@amalgama-dette1430 Not exactly. Why = Por qué Because = Porque

[@jamesmarshall6619]

Another advantage Netflix has are it's international shows and movies, specifically K dramas. Netflix isn't the only service to have them but they do a better job of putting them front and center to get views compared to other apps. Many of the K dramas may not be in the tier of a Sopranos or Band of Brothers but many of them are entertaining and give audiences narratives that are a little bit different compared to American television shows. With so many different niche dramas and comedies they offer, it plays to a wider audience and Netflix just does a much better job selling them.

[@jkid4855]

This guys doesn’t give a shit about non American shows. That is why he fucked up so badly in his previous Netflix video.

[@princessmanitari4993]

Definetly, i mean, the actor Song Kang is literally known as netflix's guy, because he is only in netflix kdrama's right now (nevertheless, my demon and sweet home amongst others.) Amazon prime is so terribly bad with their kdrama's, i can't even find most of them. Disney+ mainly has romance or thrillers right now. Netflix, has all. (Seperate from viki & viu) netflix is also now known as a genuine power within the korean film/show industry.

[@eclipsicalbluestocking1182]

True, my mom watches tons of k-dramas on Netflix.

[@orlandobrown8190]

The writers strike happened as a result of Netflix's business and ironically it might be the thing that saved them. The strike was nearly half a calendar year and while that may not seem long the ramifications of that will be felt for many years to come. The problem is the other streaming companies tried to get into an arms race with Netflix which might have worked had things remained constant but overnight the price of manufacturing quadrupled and their opponent already had a stockpile of goods to weather the storm. I truly believe that HBO realized they can't afford to take the losses that the strike will inflict upon them, manage their current debt load, and expand so they had to pick a path. That path lead them right into the hands of Netflix/Prime via licensing their previously exclusive content which further nueters their business model. I preferred Max over Netflix but now with all of Max's content pretty much on Netflix I find myself back to where I started.

[@lazyartiste_2357]

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Netflix also has a lot of international content that wasn’t effected by the strikes

[@heitorpedrodegodoi5646]

Also Netflix had the advantge of the international cinema, US stopped? Asia, Europe, Africa and South and Central America are still going and pumping content.

[@princessmanitari4993]

Also let's not forget the transphobia mess they are funding and the big amount of animation employees they fired whilst animation was just getting started really well.

[@heitorpedrodegodoi5646]

@@princessmanitari4993 Also Disney funding an anti-gay campaign.

[@KingOfMadCows]

I wonder if they'll just bring back the syndication model with Netflix. Networks used to sell their shows into syndication where they basically let another network show reruns of their shows. But they would only do with older seasons. If you wanted to see the newest season, you'd still have to go to the network that makes/owns the show. The other streamers can do that with Netflix. Sell them streaming rights for their older shows or even older seasons of their currently running shows. But they still keep all the new stuff.

[@MajicMiranda]

One show I know of that already sort of does this is Survivor. For a while now, Netflix has had 2 or so of the most popular older seasons, meanwhile to watch it live online or stream the latest seasons you need to us CBS or Paramount. I know for a fact that a lot of new fans have joined the Survivor community after they started doing this around 2020.

[@skysthelimitvideos]

Paramount does this thing where they’re letting Netflix stream Nickelodeon shows but only a few seasons while hosting the shows in their entirety on Paramount+ maybe we’ll see more of that.

[@chrisjfox8715]

I think there will be more of this in due time maybe, but it all comes down to what kind of numbers these offshoot streaming services are doing. Each service is going to make that call based on their own data

[@crazyinsanepenguin]

​@@MajicMirandayep that's how they got me, I even signed up for Paramount + just to watch the rest of the seasons

[@Zoroasterisk]

They did that with Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead when they were still broadcasting on TV

[@Tertion]

To be fair I was with you in 2020, thinking that Netflix was doomed... I was sure that Disney+ would destroy them with all those franchises and other media they bought... but I should have expected they would only overmilk those and produce mostly uninspired garbage...

[@pax6833]

Disney+ has been a disaster for Disney, they can't even get their audience to show up for the box office releases anymore, because it all goes straight to Disney+

[@Fredman5551]

Lol Disney had been making shit content before D+. You were just blinded by hype.

[@Natta44]

Disney+ was 🤑 on paper but 💩 in practice. They could have took over everything. But they spread themselves too thin. Promised too much, chose quantity over quantity. So they deserve what they got. A failed service and loss of fans.

[@Xfacta12482]

I think it was less to do with overmilking the IPs and more so the total lack of respect they showed toward the source material of those IPs

[@sandal_thong8631]

@@Xfacta12482 Do you mean Marvel and Star Wars?

[@davidmylchreest3306]

In the UK, Hulu is already folded into Disney + in the form of Disney Star. It's pretty good value.

[@colinmcintyre9074]

Same in Canada

[@evilspell93]

Pretty much everywhere outside the US

[@najhoant]

Same here in Sweden, and probably the other Nordic countries

[@TerribleTake]

I find this funny because Hulu is the streaming service I use more then any other and it’s not even close

[@illogical001]

But it’s not though. Yes, we get some Hulu stuff on Disney+, but I‘ve used (the real) Hulu before, through a very annoying process of using a VPN and gift cards to create an account and stream it, and Hulu just has a LOT more shows and movies compared to Disney Star. But I’m not complaining. At least we get the Hulu Originals included with our D+ subscription.

[@andreosorio5758]

Bro you gotta understand that the world is more than the United States. In other places, the only streaming service that has a variety of content is Netflix. There’s no “fanatics” there’s only a logical choice of “I get more with Netflix”.

[@entoney20]

Yup, and the thing is in many places people may not want to pay for multiple streaming services like a lot of US consumers! So it's Netflix by default!

[@Elephantsaresupreme]

Yeah as a Pakistani, unless I get a VPN, my only choice for streaming is Netflix

[@VinchVideos]

yeah that's why I was always surprised with the amount of "Netflix sucks" takes by american KZbinrs in recent years. I don't love Netflix lol but I really couldn't tell what made it stick out to them as worse than other streaming services. Netflix keeps new stuff coming, some good some bad but enough of each and you pirate the rest

[@illogical001]

False, we have Prime Video and some countries have Sky Show / Sky Cinema as well.

[@lemon5000-tj6nv]

​@@illogical001ur right about prime video, but who is watching sky show/cinema, i didnt even know sky had its own streaming service until i read this comment lol

[@DarthBobCat]

The WB thing was a bit shocking, but Super Mario was part of Universal's long term strategy. Movies bounce from Peacock, to Netflix or Amazon, and back again. They've been doing it for years.

[@wipis59]

It gets even weirder when you go outside the US. When Disney+ first launched it was only available in the US and a few other countries. So much of their catalogue remained on Netflix outside of the US. The same went for Peacock and HBO. And even as those services expand into other countries they are sharing content with other streaming services.

[@princessmanitari4993]

Especially the Sky Showtime service, they share basically every show with other services

[@timpage9424]

This was always the outcome. No one was ever going to hit Netflix levels and they never will. The fact NBC thought they'd just get all the Office and Parks and Rec viewers was insane.

[@noobmasterruben5167]

Like damn I really thought Disney which has Pixar and Mcu would win but I guess I have to give crap for Netflix for taking in old Cn shows and new anime

[@Mr.Corinthians]

You are correct. It was always going to end up being a monopoly, we just need to see our "choices" fail so we would accept a monopoly without complaining about it. Monopolies are also easier for the government to take control of when they decide to turn the nation into a Nanny State. Like China, in the near future, the US is going to decide what you can watch based on their preferred ideological preferences. For the US, and you will see this after the coming revolution/civil war, after which you will only watch what Conservatives deem to be acceptable. All "woke" movies and TV shows will be removed, as will anything else deemed Satanic or morally reprehensible. What is the “7 Mountains Mandate” (Dominionism/Dominion Theology)? Supposedly there are 7 “mountains” of global society-Arts and Entertainment, Education, Economy, Family, Government and Military, Media and Religion. (Note: The US voting machines are called “Dominion”.) According to this false teaching, by conquering these 7 “mountains”, the Kingdom of God will be established. (Sorry, self-censorship is required to post this.) You Ess Public Law Won ZeeRow Too dash One Fore Whereas Congress recognizes *the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our, great Nation was founded;* Whereas *these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven No-hide Laws;* Whereas *without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos; Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society;* Whereas the justified preoccupation with these crises must not let the citizens of this Nation lose sight of their responsibility to transmit these historical ethical values from our distinguished past to the generations of the future; Whereas the Lubavitch movement has fostered and promoted these ethical values and principles throughout the world; Whereas Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26, 1991: Whereas in tribute to this great spiritual leader, “the rebbe”, this, his ninetieth year will be seen as one of “education and giving”, the year in which we turn to education and charity to *return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven N-ahide Laws:* The following is a partial listing of the Know Ahh Hide Laws as derived from the Babylonian Talmud. *Three of these Laws require the death penalty by beheading/guillotine when broken: Blasphemy, Idolatry and Sexual Immorality.* (Note: Unlike in the Old and New Testament teaching “By the mouth of two or more witnesses..”, these Laws only require one accuser for the accused to be brought to the courts and condemned.) --Apply the following laws to entertainment to get an idea of what will or will not be deemed acceptable by the State. *Idolatry:* Must worship God alone. Must not worship any man (ie: Jesus) as God. No idols or statues. Do not bow to idols or statues. Do not offer sacrifices to idols or statues. *Blasphemy:* Do not curse God. Do not use God's name in vain. Worship the true God alone, do not worship false gods. (Worshiping Jesus is also seen as blasphemy.) *Murder:* Against murdering anyone, self defense is permitted. Mass murderers will be given the death penalty. (Abortion is classified as mass murder.) *Theft--Do not:* Steal. Rob. Overcharge -Have you noticed how many of today’s large corporations seem to be pushing the “progressive” message about “fairness, PRIDE, tolerance, inclusion, diversity, equity” while also overcharging for their products? And how many of these corporations are known to overwork and underpay their workers, reaping huge profits for themselves as they commit wage theft? Kidnap. Move a landmark. (Probably not good for BLM/Antifa activists who tear down historical landmarks.) Do not use false weights and measurements. Do not covet. (I would think this applies to Socialists who believe they should receive the benefits of other people's work.) *Sexual Immorality--No:* Bestiality Incest *Homosexuality* The homosexuals have been promised increased rights and privileges, tolerance and inclusion, thinking they are being “normalized” in our society. They have been manipulated into exposing themselves publicly for elimination. The Government now has marriage records, phone and text records (Patriot Act) and online records (Earn It bill) which will be used against them. BTW: Anything you have commented online, anything you have watched, anything you have ordered, and any website you have visited has been recorded and put in your personal watch file. Prevention of animal cruelty. Do not eat an animal while it is still alive. Do not eat flesh of animal torn apart by a wild animal *Justice Law - Against* Bribery *Favoritism* -Although called the “Equal Opportunity Act”, what we have seen are people being hired or promoted not for their talents, skills and education, but based on the color of their skin, gender and sexual orientation (even if they are not qualified for the job or promotion), otherwise known as “intersectionality”. Is this “equality”, or favoritism? Isn't it strange how certain people are allowed to "fail upwards" while others are terminated from their jobs if they do not align with a certain political ideology? Condemning the innocent Must administer the death penalty Treat people equally before the law

[@mustang8206]

It's not insane to think people wouldn't buy both

[@danielebowman]

Especially after everyone had watched them already and many re-binged. The fact is people don't want to pay more subscriptions for series they ahve already seen. Certainly not when you go from paying a bargain for one or two services to paying 50+ dollars/Pounds to watch what you used to get on one.

[@JamesR1986]

@@mustang8206 It's notP insane to think people won't buy both Netflix AND Disney plus. It's insane to think people would be buy Netflix AND Peacock and Paramont and Apple and Disney Plus.

[@agme8045]

Netflix is the TikTok of streaming, their algorithm is hella good (compared to the rest at least). The thing they do with the posters/thumbnails of the movies/shows works perfectly lol they know what every user wants and they give it to you. Also, the recommendations are super different. My parents are obsessed with K-dramas, so their Netflix user is full of k-dramas. While you can barely find any k-drama on my recommendations.

[@colddripgaming]

It’s genuinely hard to care about Netflix when they’re almost double the price of literally everyone else, and they have a habit of cancelling their shows right as the first season drops, unless they can keep shows going i’m not willing to invest time in watching

[@joser1853]

Bro, you're not a Netflix user so you can't understand. Do you honestly think people who subscribe to Netflix care about the price increase?

[@colddripgaming]

@@joser1853 You using “bro” unironically aside. I don’t subscribe to Netflix cos when I did I didn’t use it and was paying a small fortune to have it and yes, especially when cost of living is snowballing people DO care about the price, like I did when they increased it massively a bit ago and like a lot of people I know did.

[@Kloppin4H0rses]

​@@joser1853I do and I'm almost about to cancel for it. Kiddo let the adults and those with jobs who have to pay for this stuff talk. You can turn KZbin Kids back on and go back to watching some Spiderman shit

[@DatRandomInternetDude]

@@joser1853yes?

[@neyou6940]

Yes Mr Netflix worker​@@joser1853

[@PeoplepersonOG]

Am I the only one that feels like Netflix has a better streaming experience. There’s something about watching it on Netflix that makes it feel so much faster and easier.

[@ChillCoco_]

They definitely got the UI advantage

[@davidmhh9977]

This is Prime's biggest disadvantage. It arguably has one of the best catalogues, but the UI is just so poor

[@ff_m3570]

They have the best iphone app too. You can change the brightness on the app itself and it’s pretty easy to change the audio and subs 😅

[@davidchidester5463]

I hate finding anything to watch on other services. Netflix is snappy, the search actually works and the recommendations actually make sense.

[@thanx4tehfish884]

@user-hg4li3zx1x Lol and when you go to the movies you get ads for Amazon shows before the movie

[@stellamcwick8455]

One thing to not rule out, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, etc… merging into larger steaming services and combining content in order to share costs and take on Netflix.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Disney bought out the last of Hulu so that's already happened, and there's rumors that WB wants to buy Paramount. It's also been rumors for years about Apple buying Disney since they aren't doing so hot.

[@drdewott9154]

Yeah. In Denmark where I'm from Paramount+ and Peacock have already merged their offerings into a single new Streaming Service called "SkyShowtime". And now they've entered a partnership with TV2 Play, a streaming service run by an incumbant TV station in the country that is nearly as big as Netflix, for bundle deals, similar to the Disney+ Hulu bundle in the US. Also here in Denmark we never even got Hulu so Hulus content was already on Disney+ as soon as they launched here in 2020.

[@jameswatson5807]

@@kingofhearts3185 Disney made huge profits from marvel films what you on about mate.

[@jameswatson5807]

still would fail.

[@DeanTheLaughingMann]

I hope that 2024 serves to teach these companies a hard lesson over the idea that it's okay to license your media to a competitor if you both get paid. The Office may not have been a revenue driver on its own, but people still rewatched it because the show was that entertaining and loved. Netflix got to hook subscribers on a monthly basis with it, and the entity that owns The Office got paid to license it over. Netflix, thankfully, opted to get themselves some original content that managed to drive some subscriber growth, but I feel like a couple of other businesses have bled so hard that they have to charge more money to keep up OR get bought up by another company.

[@chrisjfox8715]

These sorts of things will balance out as they need to over time. I don't blame each individual studio for trying to build their own slice of the pie. Yes, we as consumers "suffer" from how fractured the streaming market is as a result of so many of them splitting off...but it's up to each conpany's financial outcomes as to whether or not it's worth it for them to continue. A studio isn't going to drop their streaming service to please the greater good of the masses if keeping it is financially working for them... Those too far in the red will fold and those that aren't likely won't, but they had to make the attempt for themselves to see.

[@Art-is-craft]

Original is the only way to go. What Netflix should have focused on was quality production and then a series of movie licences. Netflix should stay clear of movie productions.

[@Willowy13]

Netflix also won the war on original content. How many shows lead to great discussion online for the good content? House of Cards, Stranger Things, Sense8, La Casa de Papel and many others. The only one that could beat it was The Rat, for the obvious reason it has many beloved IPs that could generate lots of content. However, the Rat destroyed every IP they had and its own reputation with decisions like going after a bill to protect the little ones and antagonizing half of its customer base.

[@stormdoesgaming8919]

Honestly, I still remember the days when streaming didn't even exist, and Netflix was a movie rental site--an online Blockbuster, if you will. Seeing those big red envelopes come in the mail was ALWAYS an awesome thing. Also, I remember when Netflix first dipped into online streaming, they had to send you a disc so you could access it (purely by request, too).

[@kassaken6521]

My dad had a subscription and could have DVDs mailed to him within 2-3 days. Now we can watch everything with a push of a button. Crazy how much has changed in 14 years

[@CarlosRojas-hr6ms]

You guys remember Redbox?

[@13blackcatzzz]

Wow, you remember 15 years ago. Congratulations.

[@AmariMarvelous]

Those were the days and look how far we came. Also to add on ,Blockbuster fumbled the ball when they had the chance to purchase Netflix before Netflix became the household name it is today and Blockbuster was on top but they didn't thinking it wouldn't be a good idea and even laughed at idea of it. Look how things have changed!😂

[@sparerib5494]

I remember the days when there were only three networks, and I could only see two of them because the antenna was directional.

[@BaDazai]

I tried amazon prime, i stay in Africa and the majority of videos there said 'NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR REGION', 🤦🏾‍♀️. I'll personally stay with Netflix! I can watch asian, african, american and european movies freely!

[@Art-is-craft]

So does prime video in Africa display the show to you but when you enter it will not play?

[@princessmanitari4993]

​@@Art-is-craftyup!

[@callumgurr5548]

An interesting video as ever! I think one thing you've overlooked is the importance of the international market. Netflix is a genuinely international streaming service, with hits like Money Heist and Squid Game proving this. If you compare that to Max and Peacock, which aren't even available in a lot of countries, so they've had to sell their hit shows to Netflix and Prime (e.g. in the UK, the US Office has pretty much always been available on Netflix for the last 2+ years). That doesn't explain the failures of all of the services (e.g. Disney+), but it does place a considerable ceiling on those that don't launch internationally. Plus even those others that have launched internationally are American streaming services that happen to be available in another country, rather than having shows/films that genuinely feel like they are made for a non-American audience.

[@strykenine7902]

NBC really thought that people would flock to a new platform to watch a ten-year-old sitcom? I know a guy who loves shows like that (Office, Parks and Rec, Scrubs). He's got the DVD's. Their core audience is busy Gen X. They don't have time to swap streaming services.

[@DizzyBusy]

Time and again, I'm struck by just how ahead of their time, dare I say, visionary, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were. South Park has always been free to stream on their own website, with them dictating the online distribution and advertising deals. Now in the streaming era, they are still in control of the distribution. If NBC had done this back when Friends, Seinfeld, and Frasier were on, we wouldn't even be talking of Netflix today. Net, what? I'm too busy watching Friends for the umpteenth time on the NBC website.

[@mopnem]

Yeah well, most people watch friends ect on Netflix. Unless your already a south park fan, yr just not watching..plus south park really only caters to a certain type of audience

[@ArchThaBoss]

@@mopnemu missed his entire point. It’s not about who caters to what audience. He’s talking about method of distribution/access to content

[@DizzyBusy]

@@mopnem Netflix pays NBC for streaming rights, while NBC loses advertising money when they don't stream their own products. The South Park creators had more control over streaming and ad revenues from the beginning. I was talking about how that ship had sailed for NBC, ABC, and the likes. They should have done it back then, along with Matt and Trey.

[@marksnow7569]

When Seinfeld ended, the number of internet connections in the US capable of streaming reasonable quality video was about 700,000. Netflix (and P*rnhub) entered the streaming market at the crucial moment when broadband had reached about half of all American homes.

[@mopnem]

@@DizzyBusy Is South Park on netflix? If it’s not, it’s all a mute point. This goes back to my original point that SP if more niche than the other heavy hitters you mentioned. That show isn’t as valuable to Netflix.

[@Natta44]

Fun fact, Netflix just sold their final dvd which means now their business model is completely focus' on streaming. They were always going to win the war as they have most experience. Other streamers jumped on, Disney, HBO, Prime cam't complete with the OG. They are the Hoover, Sellotape and Google of the stream world. They got their own phase 'Netflix and Chill' so they earnt their spot.

[@DerrickBest]

We don't say "Netflix and chill" for no reason. It's quite simply the default streaming service.

[@em_the_bee]

Oof, cringe. That's something a "hip" marketing genius in their 30s could have come up with. And if you're not on a marketing payroll from Netflix, that's even sadder.

[@Scoothare]

@@em_the_beewhat are u talking about?💀

[@tywesley2047]

@derrickbest Facts bro, I said the same thing! Netflix is apart of the culture! If you haven’t Netflix and Chilled you ain’t popping!

[@MrMachu22]

The last kingdom, love death and robots, black mirror, the two extraction movies, and community are the top reasons I've kept my netflix.

[@Art-is-craft]

Those are niche productions and simply do not offer a good return on capital.

[@user-qt2we6mb6k]

@@Art-is-craft Hey mate can you explain how Extraction and Black Mirror are niche productions and also explain why Netflix continued to buy seasons of these shows?

[@Art-is-craft]

@@user-qt2we6mb6k They are niche because they appeal to a small segment of the Market. As in your grandmothers will be unlikely to watch it or your wife. It really is for a section of the male market. I asked my wife about it and she has no idea it even existed.

[@michaelmunoz8014]

i was wondering if any streaming service had a setting where you can make a playlist of your favorite shows, shuffle them, and then have the episodes play from one series to the next, but still in the order of their respective series to simulate watching a television channel that has all of your favorite shows. i feel like that would make some serious money.

[@nevskislake]

Netflix and Prime are the only streaming services that I keep year-round. All the others get the "once a year" or "twice a year" treatment. They just don't have a lot to entice me. I am not a sports person, so I only subscribe to other services when they have built up 2-3 shows that I want to watch. Anyway, great video, Captain! I hope you have a fantastic 2024, and I look forward to all of your content in the coming year.

[@fudalefu1]

One thing companies didn’t take into account when the streaming wars started, and all these netfix competitors pulled their shows from Netflix to put them on their own streaming service, was that the customer doesn’t want to pay 15$/ month for multiple services. The customer wants to have 1 streaming service, in addition to what they’re already paying for cable. This leads to the customer inevitably choosing one streaming service. And they are probably going to choose Netflix, the first and biggest. And not one of the copycat competitors. So it’s actually beneficial to Netflix and the owners of shows IP:’s if they license the show to Netflix and share the revenue. What they are doing is essentially bypassing cable television.

[@vicman3122]

I wouldn't say that Netflix won the streaming wars, I would say that the other streaming services made very bad decisions and destroyed themselves

[@pez.emikazoo]

... So they're winning

[@marvelprince]

A win is a win

[@admanios]

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[@mattm7798]

Care to elaborate on these bad choices?

[@joen8529]

Nah… streaming was only ever going to support a couple major players. Just like video game systems. Only a couple were ever going to prevail, and Netflix won this one. Studios need to go back to focusing on quality and creativity for the big screen, where they actually MAKE MONEY. Then make money again by selling Netflix streaming rights.

[@ronine9231]

In Australia we don't have access to a lot of streaming services like Hulu or Peacock, we don't have access to a lot of streaming services so services like Netflix get a lot more traffic from users from countries that live outside the US since it is one of the few we can access and has a lot of the movies and series we want to watch.

[@kaia9163]

I love how you use Jazz in your essays, it's very relaxing. Just wanted to let you know we appreciate the small stuff

[@taejaskudva2543]

What I'm finding is that if it isn't on Netflix or Disney, and it's something I care about, I'm making sure I have it on physical medium. That bit of subscription per month could just put a movie or show on my shelf forever. Assuming I don't already have it, and the only reason I watched it on streaming was for convenience...

[@torianconerly8736]

Also add the fact that a lot of DC movies got added to Netflix recently too. I was blown away when I saw that.

[@lacountess]

Netflix also introduced quite a line up of gems recently that I wasn’t expecting. My recommendation list suddenly kept providing me with masterpiece entertainment like The Fall Of the House Of Usher, Live action One Piece, Pain Killers, Blue Eye Samurai, and Talk To Me. Not only is it the pioneer streaming service, its programming isn’t all that bad either compared to Disney+ and other competitors.

[@anthony449]

All terrible imo

[@lacountess]

@@anthony449 Of course. There's always someone. 😏

[@TwiggyPone3617]

Let's be honest: people throw around the term "failure" way too much nowadays. Any time a company gets some online push back/has money issues, someone will always say that this is "proof" that the company is about to go under. It's exhausting.

[@user-qt2we6mb6k]

"Lets be honest" is such a disingenuous start to an opinion brother lmao. I don't really agree, I reckon there is an insane amount of failures we see every day from companies, doesn't always mean the company is going under but they've definitely failed at what they were trying to accomplish. Like what would you call one of the biggest companies in the world starting a streaming service, pumping huge money into it and having it fizzle out on them? I would call that a huge failure.

[@TwiggyPone3617]

@@user-qt2we6mb6k And you don't think people exaggerate? Like with Netflix, a lot of people were saying that the company was on its last legs and yet a couple years latter is still one of the more successful streaming services?

[@fireironthesecond2909]

I think bro needs a dictionary If a company loses money it’s failing. If you’re sick of hearing it then you either need to filter your feed or maybe just maybe I know it sounds crazy but maybe these companies are just failing

[@TwiggyPone3617]

@@fireironthesecond2909 Again, people are often exaggerating or outright wrong. You know, like with Netflix? If you want to hate these companies there are a lot of good reasons to do so. All I'm saying is that just, I know it sounds crazy, maybe people on the internet should be expected to know what they are talking about.

[@noobmasterruben5167]

The only one thats failing so far is Disney since becuz of their iconography anyone knows that some mcu movies, pixar movies and Disney remakes are not worth it in cinemas and are better off streaming them

[@amalgama-dette1430]

A friend told me "Netflix is king for good and bad" and I honestly agree

[@CaseNumber00]

I am serious about this, I think a significant part of it can go to anime on Netflix. Been an anime fan for over 15 years and I watched the growth. I saw the medium take off in 2012 and 2012 thanks to Sword Art Online and Attack on Titan take off then anime started being featured on Netflix shortly after. Some people may not see it but anime is very popular now, often times a show is trending on Twitter. Anime has had really big hits over these last 30 years and adding anime to a Netflix has easily added scores of anime shows from yesteryear. In addition there is anime always being added where every season 20 series appear per season. It was an untapped medium and adding anime added hundreds of shows. Lastly, anime is relatively dirt cheap compared to other Netflix shows. Anime is relatively not all that profitable and doesn't see profits past 6 months after a show ends. So there are studios and publishers sitting on shows doing nothing until Netflix came along and offered to buy it, its doing nothing so it was a no brainier. As for currently produced anime, its hard to find numbers but an anime series roughly cost $3-5 million dollar, in 2023 money per 13 episode series. Thats a lot less to a Netflix show where it cost more to make one episode popular Netflix show. What Netflix did to become the best was grab international content an anime paved the way for it.

[@princessmanitari4993]

Same with kdrama's, they invested a lot

[@katherinealvarez9216]

We got too many wars going on right now.

[@Psilocybin77]

beware the military industrial streaming complex

[@billgeorgakopoulos1677]

Your videos are always well grounded and are great material for conversations. I think this becomes more rare each day on KZbin and that is why I really respect your work. But when I realized that on this video you had on one segment playing Lush Living from Martin Landstrom on the background...Captain, hats off for you!

[@jeremycards]

Netflix simply completely positionated itself in pop culture. There's a Netflix button in my remote... and it's a pirated remote i had to buy because the original broke. Everyone says "Netflix and chill" it's not "i'm going to watch tv" anymore, or much less any other streaming service. By this point it's so ingrained in society that people default to Netflix, usually if you wanna watch something you check on Netflix first and everywhere else second (unless it's blatantly obvious, like a Disney property). And that has an INSANE amount of value.

[@MZ99698]

The studios thought streaming services were the golden goose, it turned out that for almost every studio they were a financial black hole. Netflix is as ubiquitous with TV viewing as Google is with web searches and that is a massive advantage that’s almost impossible to overcome for the other studios. Over the next few years I expect more and more of them to consolidate and disappear and more and more content to appear on Netflix again as it used to in the past.

[@marksnow7569]

No, what the studios thought, and still think, was that as streaming replaces traditional TV, a company operating globally with a subscription-based internet distribution service, can become the whole world's one-stop shop for home screen media, and can dictate terms to any content producer.

[@MZ99698]

@@marksnow7569 yes you can summarise what you said as I what I said. Turns out it was just a giant financial black hole and they’re all regretting jumping in headfirst. Like I said.

[@marksnow7569]

@@MZ99698 Not exactly. My argument was that the studios did not think of streaming as the golden goose, but as an unavoidable future over which Netflix seemed likely to achieve a global monopoly (possibly even beyond the control of any regulatory body)

[@coolboss999]

What I think these other streaming services have failed that Netflix has succeeded in is international content. In the US, we have all these streaming services but outside of it, there is just Netflix and a few other streaming services. Netflix has really become synonymous with having "everything" you want/need

[@lolli_popples]

I also firmly believe the Netflix has the best UI of any streaming service. The others are always so annoying to use and navigate, and while Netflix’s site isn’t without flaw, it is the easiest to use.

[@ares395]

Netflix always had a piss poor library in my country in comparison to US etc. so I just cancelled it because I didn't use it. There was nothing to watch for me once I got through the good stuff and I was just paying for waiting for new stuff which is not fine for me.

[@poketdoom]

I don’t get why people hate Netflix so much, like sure they make tons of garbage but so does every other streaming service. Lots of streaming services don’t even have many good originals if at all, like what does Disney+ have other than Loki and Moon Knight? Despite how shaky Max is, its the closest competitor rn

[@dano_ukr]

Also Netflix, due to sheer size and earnings netflix can risk and go for more niche markets - do expansion that in the long run will create more dedicated viewers. Like in Japan, I believe, it has much more anime in it's catalogue, sure it can't always secure overseas licence, but in Japan it has a lot of ground, which allows for connections, which is why there will be an EXCLUSIVE netflix anime about Justice League, for example. In Ukraine, Netflix is the only Western streaming service legally available: with adapted prices, localisation, and official advertising. Despite Ukraine being not the biggest market (especially because of russian invasion), this move gives netflix the dominance in "netflix and chill" category and equates "streaming" with "netflix".

[@philbattiste9649]

It's the old adage: streaming isn't the future, it's the present. You succeed in the present by having been prepared in the past. Netflix made it clear they were in the streaming game years ago. Playing catchup now is being set up to fail.

[@jamesroy791]

Netflix won the streaming war and they didn't even know or relise they were even in a war

[@Moneybagzzz]

I honestly don't know when the hate train for Netflix started. Boo-hoo, they cancel shows. Yeah, welcome to TV. That happened in the old days all the time, maybe even more. Boo-hoo, you can't share your Netflix passwords to your crush and let them use your account anymore. They can pay for their own. Boo-hoo, Dave Chappelle. Enough said there lol. They still are pioneers in the way we consume serialized streaming video and their only real competition is Max, but Max seems to be a different iteration of itself every year.

[@spootybaby]

Thank you for servicing the Marco Polo fans with those brief shots from the show... I still get wistful thinking about that show and how good it might have become if given the chance...

[@marvelprince]

Wow I almost forgot about this show. I was pulling for it to succeed

[@Art-is-craft]

It was a great show that could have grown in popularity with some cleaver marketing. It just needed one more season to complete. That era was the Netflix original content. They had bloodlines, daredevil, polo, house of cards and ozark. Those shows were on par with hbo and fox.

[@phototristan]

They were first, and have my favorite streaming shows like Wednesday, The Crown, Queen's Gambit and Squid Game. I'm basically a life long subscriber (and note, I'm a shareholder). I am sorta sad they discontinued their DVD service though.

[@Zictor]

You showed a clip from Archive 81... I'm MAD that isn't getting a second season! It was so good!

[@neilhannan5112]

Disney Warner Bros FOX Paramount long ago the 4 company lived in Harmony but everything changed when the Netflix Attacked

[@marshalmarrs3269]

I don’t like Disney nowadays because it’s buying up smaller studios, using existing IP as blatantly lazy cash grabs, supporting authoritarian regimes, ruining copyright laws, it’s poor handling of foreign media (notably media from the Far East) and the Performative activism.

[@BeastinlosersHD]

The thing is, everyone’s parents paid for Netflix, gen Z and to a less extent millennials didn’t really pay for it unless they already had kids or something. When the millennial shows left, that parents didn’t watch anyway, it didn’t really matter. Either you bought Netflix or didn’t, so either you weren’t a paying customer anyway or you became one

[@Kevfactor]

I feel at this point, the people that actually still pay for Netflix are the same Boomers who got on Facebook 8 years ago. Piracy has picked up big time due to how annoying it is to watch content these days(at least get better bit rates or get to stream everything from one site). I think some people have reverted back to cable too.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Very much. I'm in my 20s and have no interest in much of anything on these services. If anything big did come out that actually caught my attention I could probably pirate it in like 10 minutes of looking.

[@percyweasley9301]

​@@Kevfactoryeah right, the youths worldwide really revolves around usa youths taste.. paying for Netflix automatically makes u boomer...

[@DizzyBusy]

That's a conjecture, and perhaps some wishful thinking on your part

[@jillsandwitch67]

Netflix still probably has the best content library of any streaming service, theres a lot of really really great stuff on there.

[@mymfleg2506]

Disagree

[@medz3398]

@@mymfleg2506disagree. Agree either with op

[@jameswatson5807]

@@mymfleg2506 You must be American.

[@thefrog4990]

No most of their catalog is very bad

[@jameswatson5807]

@@thefrog4990 Maybe to American but as a brit no way.

[@ohWAFE]

Also bro your video hasn’t popped up in my sub box in a long time… maybe im missing it. Either way i have like 8 videos to watch! Keep up the good work

[@Michael-sb8jf]

People don't want 5 plus streaming services at most they want 3 and that usually includes a "basic" cable service in that number.

[@jameswatson5807]

Well don't get 5 plus streaming services American's sound really entitled.

[@ChristopherButeau]

I love your critiques and this was fun because you rethought your previous declarations. I also really enjoyed Binary Sea. Are you the writer or artist?

[@jonathonklaseus2343]

Netflix has all the stand up comedy specials that’s what keep me! Also how dare you not bring up cyberpunk edgerunners! Love the vids

[@strawberryblondemilk7249]

It really helps that netflix is worldwide too Max & peacock are exclusively American they have to licence theyre content elsewhere around the world ,The Office & Friends have been on uk Netflix for years and still are right now.

[@The_NJG]

Blue Eye Samurai certainly gives me hope if it gets a season 2.

[@mala6238]

👍

[@treytison1444]

Couldn't get into it

[@jashuarai3415]

Just watch until episode 5. You will be into it

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@jashuarai3415 It helps when hit reply to the person you meant to the reply to, not to the OP's reply. I will never watch it, it's a toon shader slapped on some 3D models and I hate how cheap it looks. It's looks almost as bad as RWBY.

[@antagonist7]

Season 2 is also green lit. There was a trailer about it having a season 2

[@DagooXXX]

This is super interesting. The same happened in the distribution of Digital PC games, when Steam blow up the big game publishers all took the games from there and during the next several years all came back with tails between legs

[@Art-is-craft]

Steam is not a streaming service but a market place. Those games publishers simply have no idea how to market.

[@user-qt2we6mb6k]

@@Art-is-craft Steam isnt a streaming service? are you sure?

[@DagooXXX]

@@Art-is-craft I dont see how the diference negates the comparison

[@Art-is-craft]

@@user-qt2we6mb6k It is a down load service and is a market place. It is more akin to Amazon sales. Games companies have no idea how to market.

[@zakuraiyadesu]

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

[@SpottedHares]

I mean I would argue that your original point still be accurate, but what you missed was every other streaming service eating the pavement face first so hard it made Netflix look stable.

[@jameswatson5807]

it was not that point of view was American centric, there is a whole world out side America.

[@Gailim]

"Netflix won the streaming war" - presented by Nebula

[@beatjunkybg]

A lot of people have started hating Netflix these days because of the amount of bad content they release... BUT in this pile of junk you can always find a gem.. I'd say at least one or two great tv shows every month. So that's pretty good compared to other streamers

[@Art-is-craft]

The problem is trying to find that gem in a sea of junk. I do not have enough retime to search through it.

[@beatjunkybg]

@@Art-is-craft True, I always check the rating on Imdb first to avoid the total crap.

[@noelv1976]

Don’t forget Netflix started to show DC products again. Not to mention Star Trek kids show is doing well, which Paramount canceled last year

[@planescaped]

"They missed the boat and need to find out where they sit in an entertainment landscape that so massively shifted under their feet" Seriously, I remember I quit watching and paying for television in 2009, I'd already been mostly just watching youtube and netflix for 2 years and saw no point in paying for it anymore. Haven't had tv service since. Pretty much everyone I knew was in a similar boat, and we were all predicting the death of television in the future.

[@matthewlee4834]

I would actually disagree that your previous Netflix video "aged terribly." I think it was a perfect depiction of the prognosis of Netflix at the time

[@joser1853]

Nah, I've been following this channel for maybe 4 years and remember that video laughed at it. People sometimes don't understand Netlix. Back then all these streaming companies were coming into the market and were eating into Netflix market share, but the reality was that Netflix still had the content to outlive them. It was always going to be a matter of when they finished them off.

[@marksnow7569]

@@joser1853 No, the traditional content publishers were doing the right and necessary thing, and as late as 2021 there was a serious possibility that they would succeed in taming Netflix. I think what went horribly wrong was that they concentrated too heavily on the "traditional subscriber"- male, 20s-30s- while Netflix was deliberately building on its "one stop shop" image to attract many different types of subscriber who might previously have been happy enough with network TV.

[@joser1853]

@@marksnow7569 Nah. Literally don't know how people thought Netflix was going anywhere. Netflix has the biggest and most diverse streaming library with content coming out every two seconds. Only naive persons that can't reason would have thought Netflix was going to lose.

[@jameswatson5807]

No it aged bad there is a whole world outside America. Americans moan about Netflix to me they sound entitled and spoiled kids, neflix is cheap and has good content. British TV sucks Netflix is a life saver, dying of boredom nothing good on TV all they have is American repeats from the 70s.

[@MohammedAli-mb6oz]

Not really, anyone who actually understood the tech hurdles & level of polish Netflix had reached knew that rushed out apps from upstarts whose only appeal was content didn’t stand much of a chance… The Netflix app is just so much better than anything else out there and maintains that quality across every platform.

[@Kevfactor]

I wish there was one that let you download the stuff so you can watch it in better quality :)

[@SPQSpartacus]

Netflix has Blue-Eye Samurai. If you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out. Absolute Genius.

[@SOURJDADDY]

Audio was great. Thank you for holding yourself accountable. Gained a subscriber 🙏🙏

[@vrolijk9865]

I think the issue mostly has to do with market saturation. People do not want to pay for 10 streaming services at a time. At best they will rotate between different platforms. 3 months hbo, then 3 months disney then 3 months disney etc etc. Realisticaly, there shouldn't be more than 4 big services

[@jameswatson5807]

This sounds like entitled American's, I am from the UK I have only Netflix, if you have money to get 10 they should not bitch.

[@TheNicestAshley]

I still can not believe that Max dropped "HBO" from their name, or that they sent some of their older shows to other platforms. I had Max BECAUSE of HBO. It has lost a lot of appeal and I canceled it.

[@Art-is-craft]

The problem was the fact the service was much more than hbo and that limited the scope. Cleaver marketing and they could have given the impression that HBO was a freebie service thrown in. Many European countries and the UK do not get HBO Max.

[@jaredpoon5869]

I think the pandemic had a massive impact in cementing Netflix's position as the top streaming service. During the pre-pandemic and the early times of the pandemic, people had more money to spend on extraneous services, but as inflation grew, people stopped using the services that didn't give as much value. As much as we like to clown on Netflix for offering limited shows that no one wants to watch, it still had one of the largest if not the largest library (legally) out there. People nowadays don't really have the funds to subscribe to every streaming platform--especially if you only want to watch a few shows on there. You still want a reliable way to watch shows with minimal hassle (which is why you're not just pirating and torrenting the shows), and you can only afford a few services. That leaves you most likely with Netflix (and or Disney Plus).

[@LastDemonAlive]

Can you make videos about specific movies, series or even books it feels like your content is getting more and more meta as the time goes.

[@whammo11224]

Netflix...the only service that releases the entire season of a show on day one! Not weekly episodes!

[@omg_RANCORS]

it would be crazy to get to the point where stuff debuts on netflix and then moves to its home service

[@Lolsocialism]

This is a really curious topic, because most of the issues you've listed aren't a reality in Denmark, and I assume for a lot of smaller countries around the world. There's just not a big enough market here for them to compete, so for example, that Warner brothers streaming service? It belly flopped, and a lot of WB shows are returning to Netflix again. We recently got both Justice League and Batman Animated. It's kinda crazy how different the situation is, country from country.

[@Wallyworld30]

I started watching Band of Brothers again Last night. It's been at least 5 years since I last watched it. That's a show worth going back and watching ever few years for your entire life. Incredible show.

[@Gambit2483]

Netflix has original movies/shows, *Anime* , The Mario movie, Sony movies, and now all the DCEU Movies. If you have Netflix this holiday season, you're pretty much covered.

[@bensherinian3599]

I would love to see Disney do a Disney Vault agreement/system with Netflix where for four months of the year an era of Disney Classics would be available and keep changing every four months.

[@drdewott9154]

We already see this on some regional streaming services in Europe where movies are available on regional streaming services for a limited time.

[@bensherinian3599]

@@drdewott9154 oh, really? That’s cool.

[@sparerib5494]

It'd be great to see The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, again.

[@fireironthesecond2909]

That would nuke Disney+ and Disney is still using it to host their Marvel shows the same way a parasite hosts a wasp

[@bensherinian3599]

@@fireironthesecond2909 in all honesty, Disney+ should fail and collapse. From day it was stupid of them to make a streaming platform, instead of making a passive income through licensing and redistribution.

[@raymiemiller1455]

I happened to notice Star Trek Prodigy on Netflix the other day, which I remember launched as a Paramount Plus exclusive.

[@theoldgods8229]

Streaming is Netflix’s core business while it’s a side business for the movie studios and tech companies.

[@marksnow7569]

Producing screen content is the core business of movie and TV studios, but as scheduled TV becomes outmoded, Netflix can ultimately achieve a world monopoly on delivering that content to consumers

[@skysthelimitvideos]

I think that we’ll eventually see some of sort of consolidation that’s how corporate America works these days in every industry but streaming. We’re already starting Hulu and Disney+ merge and I bet we could see Paramount+, Peacock, etc hop into bed with one of the bigger services weather that be Netflix, Max, or Amazon Prime. In the end I expect Netflix, Max, Prime, and Disney to be the last ones standing with maybe others like Apple TV remaining as niche shadows.

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Max is definitely merging with Discovery+ soon though. Discovery are their parent company and they said they'd do it soon as.

[@Smiggly2574]

They already did​@@sacrificiallamb4568

[@joser1853]

Lol, it's not that Hulu and Disney+ "merged" the plan that has already been stated is to eventually shut down Hulu. It was a forced acquisition Disney is regretting now.

[@Malum09]

To be fair Netflix and Prime BIGGEST advantage is that their are the oldest one in the bussiness and also the most well known, so people will gravitate to them.

[@aldraone-mu5yg]

They probably deserve it more than all the studios that jumped on late in the game. But personally I just can’t wait till everything is in one place.

[@trailmixvids]

As someone who has been watching almost only anime and animated things lately, Netflix has really stepped it up. I pay for two other anime only streaming services (Crunchyroll and HiDive) and I still think Netflix has the better platform and content and it's only growing. With The One Piece (a remake of the original anime) coming out, I think there's a huge potential for a rather liable fanbase for these types of franchises

[@brigidwell]

Still need to watch Pluto, I kind of have high hopes that that.

[@trailmixvids]

@@brigidwell I actually watched all of Pluto. It's very very good, I highly reccommend it

[@CaseNumber00]

Id do think a big reason Netflix took off is when it decided to air anime and then produce anime. It grabbed the growing niche audience and made anime mainstream. This was perhaps the first step in acquiring and making international content. Netflix has become the international standard for a streaming platform.