A New Ad-Based Tier Won’t Fix What Ails Netflix
As a publicly traded company, it’s simply not good enough to provide an affordable service that people genuinely like. The pressure to deliver quarter over quarter growth often takes on a tendency...
View ArticleYou’re Living In The True Golden Age Of Television. Enjoy It, Because It’s...
To be clear, the shift from traditional cable television to streaming TV has been a very good thing. Consumers had grown irritated with bloated, expensive bundles of channels they never watched, and...
View ArticleWarner Brothers Discovery Merger Continues To Be A Shitshow For The Ages
Remember when AT&T spent more than $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV in the belief it would help the telecom dominate video advertising? Then remember when company leadership was so...
View ArticleCable Giant Charter Once Again Jacks Up Broadband Prices
Cable giants like Comcast and Charter continue to struggle to retain traditional TV subscribers, so they’re extracting their pound of flesh from their captive cable broadband customers that have no...
View ArticleOnly 8% Of Netflix Password Moochers Plan To Pay For Their Own Subscription
Netflix’s new password sharing crackdown is a dumb cash grab. It’s unnecessary, confusing, risks annoying subscribers, duplicates existing monetization efforts (Netflix already forces you to pay for...
View ArticleStreaming Providers Dead Set On Becoming The Shitty Traditional Cable TV...
Every few months a media outlet will get a staffer to write an inane story about how if you subscribe to every streaming service in existence, you’ll unsurprisingly wind up paying almost as much as...
View ArticleThe Enshittification Of Streaming Continues As Amazon Starts Charging Prime...
Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries suffering...
View ArticleEverything T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Critics Predicted Has Come True
Last week T-Mobile annoyed customers everywhere by not only informing them they’d soon be facing a steep price hike, but by pretending it wasn’t actually a price hike. The company announced it would be...
View ArticleNetflix’s Idea Of Innovation: Two Big Price Hikes In A Row
So we’ve been talking a lot about how as the streaming video market matures, it’s increasingly behaving a lot like the old, shitty cable companies the sector once disrupted. Instead of innovation and...
View ArticleStreaming TV Prices Double As ‘Enshittification’ Takes Root, Likely Driving...
Amazon is now charging Prime customers an extra $3 a month to avoid ads that didn’t used to exist. Netflix is charging password sharers extra for sharing passwords, in addition to yet another looming...
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Max ‘Enshittifies’ Itself By Making John Oliver Harder To Watch
Now that subscriber growth has slowed, streaming TV giants have taken the predictable turn of making their services shittier and more expensive to deliver Wall Street (impossibly) unlimited quarterly...
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