There were a couple changes to different streaming services recently, because of that we canceled everything. We only use YouTube kids for the girls and that’s ad free. A couple new programs came on our radar, some that should have been on Disney+, which we had but couldn’t find anything good. Inside the company’s streaming service they want people to watch the new show allowing producers to talk about how successful it is. The audience’s view is restricted to what the company chooses to put on the front page of any search. A business telling its customers what is valuable is bad for business, it’s anti-free market. All this got me thinking there is going to be a streaming bubble like there was a dotcom bubble. When Netflix first switched from physical to digital they created something new in the world. Binge watching wasn’t the thing it became. There were commercials, rewinding tapes, one season of a T.V. show would be four DVDs, when houses could digitally transfer “content” was a big step toward the internet of things. Netflix became a huge success which led greedy corporations to take a slice of that pie, they owned the rights. Today there are countless streaming platforms and none of them are good. The real crime I see is the streaming platforms themselves have poor user interface. Streaming is a technological breakthrough and just because a company produced a network sitcom in the 90’s or animated movies in the 50’s, it doesn’t qualify them to create a streaming service. The best art is worthless if no one can find it.
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