KEY POINTS
- In the face of profit pressures and growing competition for users, streamers have taken to removing content to avoid the residual payments and licensing fees.
- Narrowing content libraries naturally means a need for differentiation.
- Data from Fandom, which hosts more than 50 million wiki pages on entertainment properties, suggests where the major streaming platforms are best poised to specialize based on current viewership.
6 Comments
hackeryarn@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
So streaming services are really becoming on demand cable. How long until someone bundles a bunch and makes a company out of it?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Weird, my plex library grows by the day.
Heavybell@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Wait, are they using "streamer" to refer to the provider and not the subscriber? That's weird.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
well, a streamer should be an individual content creator, not a subscriber or a platform - and this article is talking about the big service providers.
was really difficult to understand what the hell was going on until then.
Heavybell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah that's true actually.
swayevenly@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I can appreciate a cover photo showing a 3rd generation Apple TV (2012) controller used in 2024.