Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending
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#2For a while, before Jassy became CEO, people at the company would sometimes jokingly refer to Amazon Studios as "the loss leader for Bezos's sex life."
Now that subscriber growth is slowing down at most streaming services, the end of the "golden age of TV" is at hand.
Welcome to the "bean-counting age of TV," in which streaming services try to milk subscribers for as much as possible without pissing them off too much.
Going forward, I'm expecting cheaper content, greater restrictions, higher prices, a proliferation of tiered subscription plans, and pervasive advertisement.
Completely predictable.
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#3Internally, there's been a lot of hate towards financing these big spends in the era of layoffs. Lots of rumors say that we were saddled with Rings of Power because Bezos wanted his own Game of Thrones.
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#4I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services.
I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I cancelled it early on. Hulu, Peacock and the rest of the services have nothing for me.
The only quality content is HBO that I'm willing to pay $15/month for. I also pay for Youtube premium because no matter how much I try to force the issue, my kids watch Youtube the way I watch TV, so I'd rather get rid of all the ads. Everything else, I will pirate without guilt.
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#5High costs for studios seems to be something experienced by everyone in Hollywood; the difference for Amazon is that the studios sell their product on a pay-per-view basis upon launch whereas Amazon gives it away for free to everyone with Prime (at least for now... maybe Prime will start doing PPV on initial release adn then free for Prime members later?).
I've had Prime for years and wish the service was bifurcated such that I only get the shipping benefits -- I don't really care for the streaming media part of it.
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#6Interesting. I always thought of Prime Video and Amazon Studios as loss leaders. Also they were investing so much into the studio as to become the dominant leader in 20 yrs as they streamline the process and pump out IP more efficiently (similar to AWS).
Seems like they are going backwards or current CEO doesn’t have the backbone to make it happen.
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#7I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services. I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I c…
> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt.
I ask this without irony: is there even anything worth sourcing from the high seas these days? Entertainment has largely turned to crap in my opinion.
Re: Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending
#8I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services. I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I c…
> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt.
Are you unwilling or unable to pay for the remaining content you plan to consume?
I’ve never understood how flippant HN is about piracy. The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.
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#9For a while, before Jassy became CEO, people at the company would sometimes jokingly refer to Amazon Studios as "the loss leader for Bezos's sex life." Now that subscriber growth is slowing down at most streaming services, the end of the "golden age of TV" is at hand. Welcome to the "bean-counting age of TV," in which streaming services try to milk subscribers for as much as possible without pissing them off too much…
> Going forward, I'm expecting cheaper content
Netflix's proliferation of reality TV (Love is Blind etc) felt absolutely jarring to me at first but it's just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to look back on the era of prestige TV fondly.
Re: Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending
#10I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services. I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I c…
> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt. I ask this without irony: is there even anything worth sourcing from the high seas these days? Entertainment has largely turned to crap in my opinion.
It depends on what you like, but there is stuff out there. And the pirating is easier because good content is spread so thinly across platforms.
Personally, I enjoy comedies and cooking, and those have done right. I’m kind of over the dramatic HBO-style experience.