The normies have finally found out? Kek
We’re entering a new era, where streaming services are running out of new subscribers, so the only way to keep the money flowing is by providing truely innovative, high-value experiences that customers actively want to support financially.
I feel like I’m living in bizarro world when the above statement represents a business’ last-resort effort for survival instead of it’s primary focus.
I’m not picking a yt link, but just replying to the title: streaming wasn’t a mistake. Price creep and content fragmentation (needing a subscription for every studio out there) was the mistake
can anyone ELI5 why music streaming never fragmented like TV streaming did?
An album being exclusive to a particular platform seem to be incredible rare. TV platform continuously remove things from the catalog to reduce costs but that does not seem to happen often in music.
TV streaming STARTED fragmented. Just it was all bundled together in a cable subscription. The (ineffective) moderator in that were the cable companies like Comcast, who were always trying to negotiate the price of a channel down. Suddenly with streaming, you could start your own service and getting dropped by someone like Comcast wasn’t the death sentence it used to be. The TV content creators are dealing with the end user for the first time.
The music industry long ago learned they get better sales when all their vynal/cassettes/CDs are available at Kmart/Walmart/Best Buy/etc. The music industry DID fragment a bit with online streaming, but those quickly failed. And the artists soon realized that being cool and exclusive to iTunes lead to less money for them.
I had a fatal accident and it really cut into my finances …
