Netflix’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’s Latest ‘Innovation’: Ads When You Hit Pause
Now that growth is saturated in the streaming sector, companies are increasingly behaving like the cable TV giants they once disrupted in a bid to deliver Wall Street improved quarterly returns at any...
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...
View Article2023: The Year ‘Cord Cutting’ Became The Majority Norm
It wasn’t that long ago that cable TV execs were trying to claim that “cord cutting” was either outright fiction, or a fad that would end once Millennials started procreating. The willful denial among...
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U.S. ‘Cord Cutting’ Sets New High. Again.
Back in 2019, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge proudly declared that the trend of cord cutting — or people ditching traditional cable television and switching to streaming — was finally coming to an end....
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The Sky Is Rising 2024 Edition: Rather Than Destroying Culture, The Internet...
Read the latest edition of The Sky Is Rising at The Copia Institute » Twelve years ago, we released our very first research report, the Sky is Rising. Back then, in 2012, the commonly accepted wisdom...
View ArticleNetflix Eyes More Price Hikes… And Slowly, Steadily Becoming More Like Comcast
Despite a lot of rhetoric by customers about how they were sick of Netflix price hikes and headed to the exits, the company’s latest earnings report showed impressive growth. The company added 13.1...
View ArticleDisney, Hulu Follow Netflix In Password Sharing Crackdown As Streaming...
So we’ve noted more than once that as the streaming sector is saturated and new user growth slows, streaming giants will follow on a fairly predictable path that got their predecessors (cable TV...
View ArticleFCC Outlaws Sleazy And Misleading Cable TV Fees
For decades, U.S. cable and broadband giants have advertised one price, then socked consumers with a much higher price once the bill actually arrives. This is usually accomplished via a bevy of...
View ArticleRoku Eyes Patent That Would Inject Ads Into… Everything
When last we checked in with our friends at Roku, they had made the unpopular decision to effectively “brick” user streaming hardware and television sets if users didn’t agree to a typically draconian...
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