2/3s of 1000 People Surveyed Canceled a Streaming Service in the Last Year
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#2Fascinating. I don't think I'd call it "streaming fatigue", though.
"22.42% of respondents report spending more time with YouTube's free version." I hope that means YT will have good content again, or maybe a better algorithm soon. I feel like it's been lacking lately, and I've heard others say the same.
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#3About a 1000 respondents (should be enough), self-selected (could be very bad, if the text that lured people to respond even vaguely hinted at cancellations), and they asked whether respondents cancelled a subscription in the last year, but not whether they took a new subscription (⇒ they can’t conclude anything about subscription fatigue, making the header)
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#4I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, but I spend most of my streaming time on YouTube.
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#5When you pay $100+ per months for XX services and half of what you want to watch is either not available or available but not in your language you cut your losses and go back to torrenting
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#7> Regarding ads, 51.98% will deal with ads to enjoy a lower price point, 18.81% will pay to remove ads, and 19.40% report deleting apps with ads.
Maybe an unpopular take, but I believe ads are more detrimental to one's mind than the extra $5 to get an ad-free plan. You end up paying well more than the $5 in rumination and buying useless stuff. If ads become more forced or have no option to remove in the future for any provider, I'm instantly out and will spend more money on books.
Jerry Mander does an excellent job in his book "Four arguments for the elimination of television" about ads:
> If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising, or choosing it, succeed in it. So the basic nature of advertising and all technologies created to serve it will be consistent with this purpose, will encourage this behaviour in society, and will tend to push social evolution in this direction.
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#8Requiring subscription to three or more services in order to watch your favourite shows is going back to the dark ages. The industry doesn't learn.
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#9I don't see anything bad or unexpected about that. I was subscribed to 4 streaming services at some point in time. But then I cancelled some, because I didn't find anything to watch at that point in time. I will resubscribe once they have new content.
This still means I still paid on average for 2.3 streaming services for the year, which sounds to me like I appreciate the services and I'm happy to spend money overall on it - and not that I think they are unnecessary and should go away.
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#101st year free?
Lots of cellphone plans give you 1-year free for X streaming service.
I wonder if a disproportionate of cancelations were due to people not wanting to pay for the steaming service at the end of their free plan.