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As some of you might know, Amazon is taking Amazon Prime to an ad-supported approach. Those who have been and still are Amazon Prime members will now have to either deal with Ads, or pay a monthly premium to support Beso's space adventures in insanity. But some of you might not know that Amazon already had and still has an ad-supported video streaming service. When Amazon bought IMDB they turned it into an ad-supported streaming service and stripped content away from Amazon Prime video to support it. They then changed IMDB streaming service to Freevue and to this day continues to strip content away from Amazon Prime video. If that were not enough of F-you to its customers, Beso buys the MGM catalog of content and instead of putting it onto Amazon Prime they start another streaming service that is paid-for, and once again tell all those Amazon Prime customers to F-you.
It seriously looks like Beso is trying to forward ad-supported content only in a drive I find oddly akin to business management of the Elon era. But wait, not only do you get all those ads with your paid-for service like Prime, but now Netflix has gotten in on the ad-supported ad revenue craze and why not? How else can Netflix afford to bring this morning's mega-deal to its paying customers for the WWE streaming rights. Yes, you heard it, Netflix has done research on both its existing customer base and potential customer base to warrant spending $5 Billion on streaming WWE. I really had NO IDEA that the vast majority of paying customers were polled and surveyed, and still more were polled and surveyed that were not Netflix customers, to justify not only spending $5B on WWE streaming, but in doing so to NOT spend $5B on content that their already paying sub base would want to see. And this, to me, seems like its intent is to drive paying customers to an ad-supported tier, or just to kill their business a la Elon style.
Okay, okay, I know I'm ranting but putting me into cable TV WWE with something that ultimately paying customers have to bear the burden is just asinine and questionable at best. So, what am I missing here, other than insanity?
It seriously looks like Beso is trying to forward ad-supported content only in a drive I find oddly akin to business management of the Elon era. But wait, not only do you get all those ads with your paid-for service like Prime, but now Netflix has gotten in on the ad-supported ad revenue craze and why not? How else can Netflix afford to bring this morning's mega-deal to its paying customers for the WWE streaming rights. Yes, you heard it, Netflix has done research on both its existing customer base and potential customer base to warrant spending $5 Billion on streaming WWE. I really had NO IDEA that the vast majority of paying customers were polled and surveyed, and still more were polled and surveyed that were not Netflix customers, to justify not only spending $5B on WWE streaming, but in doing so to NOT spend $5B on content that their already paying sub base would want to see. And this, to me, seems like its intent is to drive paying customers to an ad-supported tier, or just to kill their business a la Elon style.
Okay, okay, I know I'm ranting but putting me into cable TV WWE with something that ultimately paying customers have to bear the burden is just asinine and questionable at best. So, what am I missing here, other than insanity?
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