Re:Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too ...
by majormajor on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @01:40PM
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"Get paid more slowly for doing less work" doesn't sound appealing from the perspective of any of the people who would be doing the creative work.
Doing it a "netflix but pay based on what you watched" isn't the model you need, because the shows that are getting canceled today would need disproportionately larger payments per person. Since they have fewer viewers.
So unless those fewer viewers are willing to put up substantially more money, the people making the shows are going to keep looking for other options too.
(You also have big startup costs for this enterprise, if you're trying to do it as a platform vs kickstarting a single show. Think Quibi-style user-acquisition-problems, but not your pitch tp users isn't "short episodes on the go" it's "we pay creators with a different methodology.")
Doing it a "netflix but pay based on what you watched" isn't the model you need, because the shows that are getting canceled today would need disproportionately larger payments per person. Since they have fewer viewers.
So unless those fewer viewers are willing to put up substantially more money, the people making the shows are going to keep looking for other options too.
(You also have big startup costs for this enterprise, if you're trying to do it as a platform vs kickstarting a single show. Think Quibi-style user-acquisition-problems, but not your pitch tp users isn't "short episodes on the go" it's "we pay creators with a different methodology.")