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Post-Peak Performance in the M&E Universe

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P巴黎1889年的世界博览会不仅产生了这座城市的标志性建筑, the 300-meter Tour Eiffel, 同时也是攻占巴士底狱和法国君主制垮台100周年纪念. (尽管在博览会上庆祝的“共和主义世纪”曾两次被政变和冗长的波拿巴主义插曲打断.) Before settling on Gustave Eiffel’s architectural pièce de résistance, the exposition’s organizers briefly crowdsourced the concept, 只规定它必须比华盛顿纪念碑高, which had been completed across the Atlantic the year before. The cleverest proposal they received was a 300-meter guillotine, 以讽刺的方式向创造了共和国的发明致敬,集市将无情地庆祝这一发明.

Although it long predates my time in the streaming world, 我听过不止一位头发花白的行业资深人士将流媒体的早期成功归因于此(更不用说 its first purpose-built tech),以及我们今天可能不愿公开纪念的成人内容的传播. But years from now, when we look back on the M&E universe’s current inflection point—contending with the end of the era of peak TV 以及认识到新冠时代的订阅数量不太可能恢复——我们将如何说流媒体存活下来并蓬勃发展, 随着其主要驱动力从前所未有的创意内容开发转向 consolidation, ad-tiering, and licensing wars?

早期的指标好坏参半,并不是我们想要建立纪念碑的那种胜利. Probably the most eye-catching success story of late 2023 was Netflix惊人地成功实施了密码共享附加费. 35%的美国用户现在为他们以前免费使用的服务付费, Netflix enjoyed its largest single-quarter subscription boost (13.1 million) since 2020. 但鉴于封锁和打击行动导致的疫情飙升很可能是一次性事件, these bumps will look like unmistakable outliers in the coming years.

The recent Subscription Wars report commissioned by U.K.-based digital payments tech company Bango 指出了消费者对订阅服务总体上支离破碎的状态的不满,以及对间接订阅选项和通过电信公司销售的聚合服务的超级捆绑越来越有吸引力 Optus in Australia. 也许这是不那么鼓舞人心的时代的另一个迹象,消费者认为流媒体服务能为他们做的最好的事情就是停止从人群中脱颖而出,开始消失在人群中.

2024年初的一些最大的流媒体新闻与高调的捆绑销售计划有关, 传言派拉蒙-孔雀合并(合并了两家季度亏损超过10亿美元的公司)紧随其后 ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announcing a massive sports licensing joint venture. Although the Peamount deal 但很快就搁浅了,后者的合并被各种批评为迪士尼第四季度财报电话会议的捏造,没有代表与NFL或任何其他重要体育联盟的实际交易, 以及旨在冻结合法竞争的垄断性权力攫取, it may well fail simply because it doesn’t eliminate enough of the competition, said Hub Entertainment Research principal Jon Giegengack at Streaming Media Connect 2024.

“Even if you take it at face value,” Giegengack said, “optimistically, 如果你没有NBC或CBS,你仍然会错过大约30%的体育内容. 有60%或70%体育元素的产品对消费者的价值并不是原来的60%或70%,而是原来的0%. It’s a complete non-starter.”

建立超级捆绑服务的最大障碍是将消费者想要的所有内容聚合在一起,并使他们的个人百家乐软件彼此无法区分, Giegengack says, “他们都还抱着‘我要成为下一个Netflix’的想法, so we all have to guard our brand and not collaborate too much.’”

这是一个令人兴奋的前景,因为Netflix的上一个签名胜利来自于惩罚密码共享者. Vive la révolucion.

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