Puck News columnists Matt Belloni (covers Hollywood) and William Cohan (Wall Street) posted a conversation they had about the likely success of Disney and Netflix opening up an ad supported tier. Cohan wrote: “My take is that introducing ads will cost Disney and Netflix more in the long run in terms of prestige and consumer annoyance.”
My heart is with Cohan, and maybe my head too, especially his point that there is a big difference between tolerating ads for free, and paying $8/month to have to watch them. I can see a lot of people who were thinking of canceling Netflix to save money downsizing to ad-support (to save $7/month), but how many people who were not already on Netflix will want to pay to watch commercials? Netflix thinks they will get more than 50 million new subscribers by 2025. I will take the under. https://puck.news/netflixs-u-turn-the-next-cnn-purge/?sharer=23728 [This is supposed to be a free guest link, but not sure if it will work for more than one person) -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BPxx6fC%3DzvJTM_zjMf21SyzJ48atdwoo1gDrfkqfHehg%40mail.gmail.com.
