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Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ... by majormajor on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:09PM (#23679522)
IF Youtube-style short form content ever fully "grows up" into something like Quibi, the existing Hollywood system has a lot at risk.

So trying to do it first isn't necessarily insane - try to beat the organic disruption there, so they can capture the result.

I'm just not convinced the market for "short [currently free] shit to watch while killing time on my phone" is ever really going to grow into a TV-and-movie-killing Netflix/Hollywood replacement, as compared to a smaller more casual market with smaller returns.

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Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ... by sukilot on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:36PM (#23679935)
YouTube short form already grew up into something like Quibi. You could make a more compelling offering than Quibi simply by curating existing content. That's why no one cares about Quibi -- they already have YouTube.
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Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ... by majormajor on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:56PM (#23680207)
You couldn't get away with charging a subscription fee there, and I don't think you're significantly eating into the 20+min streaming market.

You could possibly pull off more premium ad rates, though... but you could really only do this from inside Google.

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Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ... by chillfox on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:00AM (#23686402)
Charging a subscription for curated YouTube content is literally the business that Nebula [1] and Floatplane [2] is in. It's just not a $1.75B business or anything close to it.

[1] https://watchnebula.com/ [2] https://www.floatplane.com/

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Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ... by lobf on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:27PM (#23681496)
I used to work at Maker Studios, and the expectation by a lot of the bosses was that their YouTube videos would replace the traditional Hollywood production model.

They were wrong. People want high quality, professional content.

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