Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the years ahead?

Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by dragonwriter on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:22PM (#29788537)

> For whatever reason, legacy media decided they don’t want the rest of the world to be fans of their content and give them money for it.

No, legacy media has distribution issues which they address by licensing distribution geographically before release, and once those rights are divided it's very hard to reconsolidate them.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by imgabe on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:28PM (#29788587)

Online streaming has been a thing for 10+ years now. Whatever distribution issues used to exist with finding a local guy to drive around a truck full of DVDs are long gone. They could have fixed this issue by now if they cared to.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by dragonwriter on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:31PM (#29788614)

> Online streaming has been a thing for 10+ years now.

Movie theaters and broadcast/cable are still a thing, and still an important component of how legacy video makes money on content. And the geographic distribution issues there still exist. And for them to work, geographic exclusivity can't ignore streaming, either.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by imgabe on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:42PM (#29788713)

Yeah, the thing is consumers don't care. They'll watch the content that's available. And as time goes on, that's what they'll know, what their kids grew up watching, and what they'll look for. The stuff that wasn't available they're not going to care about.

You can't convince me that, say, Warner Bros doesn't have sufficient leverage to wrest their online streaming rights away from some Bulgarian movie theater chain or whatever. I mean, come on.

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