Streaming Wars 2024: Which Streaming TV Services Will Last?

You are absolutely right about Peacock not being a good brand name. A customer would have to make the connection that its from NBC which is not a given these days. Not only that but it doesn't leverage the Universal brand at all since you'd have to know that its also part of the Comcast umbrella.

What I'd like to see is an animation platform that combines Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon. I think that would be a must have competitor or complement to Disney for families.

This is not good for streaming, however, companies like Disney will be looking for ways to makeup that lost revenue, and one way they may intend to do that is by producing more physical media. Maybe you don't care about owning your favorite television show or movie, but I do, and I know it's a growing market. It's still a small piece of the pie but we are already seeing Disney put out 4k discs of some of their classic and beloved movies like Snow White and Lion King. I hope this trend continues because I think a lot of people can save money by buying their favorite movies and televisons shows every month instead of spending that money on cable and streaming. Think about it, instead of spending $130.00 a month for a premium package with all the movie channels you can instead buy 6-7 of your favorite movies (brand new) on 4K.

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When Amazon starts showing ads you know streaming isn’t the be all and end all

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Spectrum is making a big deal about being "a new video streaming service." I guess they think that being the #4 cable TV network isn't enough and they want to "do it like Disney."

Apple TV+ is underated. Everything they produce has a standard of quality far superior to anything else other companies do.

My prediction for streaming is that all streaming will only have ad levels by early 2025. They cannot make money from having them be ad free so longer will ad free exist. Also I see the average cost for streaming to be no less than $35 per month by the end of 2025.

Vhs movies should out doing y'all's video now days y people are not lazy with vhs tapes and blue ray disc movies like they are with your video now days

When a FEW companies control a market, it is not a monopoly, (one company controlling a market) it is an OLIGOPOLY!

Prediction 2024 is going to be the year SHIF all round for everyone! With a lack of NEW content after the strikes. I am curious to see how the free services will affect the paid services (IE: Tubi vs Disney+/Hulu). How much does backlog catalog really matter when talking sub counts...

I think there is room for at least 4 if not 5, but definitely not 9-10. Amazon, Netflix and Apple TV+ are long term. Everything will go back to them because they are big tech with billions of money to waste. Comcast is also too big to fail, and will also stick around. Whether they keep Peacock though is debatable. Beyond these 4, whether Disney (Disney+/Hulu) and Warner (Max) live to exist on their own is seriously up in the air. Both have huge issues looming for them. Disney in a quality sense and Warner in a "oh fuck, we're broke" kind of way. Paramount, Starz and AMC+ are all done. Take one look at the originals of most of the services outside of the first 3 I listed and look how sad the output is. It's just not sustainable for everyone to make enough stuff to sustain a service. I predict:

1) Amazon will stay and mess around with ad tiers.
2) Netflix will stay pretty much the same and not give a shit.
3) Apple TV+ will stay but start expanding into less niche content.
4) Paramount will go first this spring. Whether it gets folded into Comcast or WBD is the biggest question.
5) AMC+ and Starz will be merged and then acquired into one of the legacy media late this year or next year. (Probably Comcast)
6) Disney will have to fight hard to maintain this space, if they lose they will be acquired by Apple.

In the end there will be corps with a streamer that costs about $14.99 to $19.99 a month. It'll be like cable again. There will likely be no bundles like cable because the 5 that survive will be easy to identify.

That's a shame about Paramount Plus. It seemed like a service looking for an audience when it started, but between shows like Tulsa King and its streaming of our local CBS affiliate, we've been watching it more and more.

I'm grandfathered in with my internet plan to get Max, and love it, too. I fear every time there's a change in owners that it's going to be the end of the line for that deal. They've got a series based around Batman's Penguin that I really hope we get to see (and is actually good).

If all of the currently available content survived the mergers, this COULD be a good thing, a one-stop shop similar to cable for everything streaming... but it seems like some content always gets tossed, and as you mentioned the prices are going up and up, meeting or surpassing cable if you have multiple services.

Who had "cable becomes competitively priced with streaming services" on their 2024 bingo card?? (Not me!)

I agree with the analysis of who will stay and who will go. These Wall St types who invaded these companies just did not understand how streaming works. Netflix used to pay CBS/Viacom (aka Paramount) over a billion dollars for the rights to stream The CW shows after they finished airing. When they went with their own service, they pulled all that content behind their own streaming offerings along with the failure which was DC TV. They took a billion dollars of monetized content and put it behind their paywall where it generated a big fat zero. I don't know a lot of people that would subscribe just to watch that (and if they did they would drop it soon enough after watching it). That is just malpractice in this industry. Now they are kinda figuring out with going back to licensing content to Netflix at the cost of BILLIONS of dollars they lost because they didn't know what they were doing, and now we will all pay the price for it

My question is...if you want Disney+ and Hulu, do you have to buy 2 separate streaming plans? If so, well that would make them 2 different services regardless whether Disney owns both

The one sleeper here is Warner Bros Discovery, I say buy paramount. Then focus on making the overall company successful and produce more HBO type quality content for Max and they could easily be going blow for blow with Disney. I honestly like a lot of Max's content! They just need people in the driver seat who truly want to see them win and are willing to do whatever it takes to be great.

The tagline for Alien vs Predator seems appropriate “Whoever Wins…We Lose”

None their all to expensive , and it's way cheaper just to by physical

I am against the whole crack down on Password sharing on Netflix because they are doing for money.

How is Max a better brand than Peacock ? It is way to generic adds tons of confusion. If you were to do a search for max on any search engine if you were to type the word max in with no other context would the streaming service pop up? Peacock on the other hand if more memorable, only has one other thing that could pop up during a search the animal named Peacock that in itself makes it better. Max is the equivalent of calling a streaming service streaming or calling a soda brand soda its way to generic.

There’s only room for 2 players to be wildly successful with this streaming thing long term. This is how I see this all playing out over the next 5-10 years.

1. WBD and Paramount merge. In a few years Comcast buys them. Eventually Amazon buys this combined company.

2. Apple feeling the pressure to compete with Amazon buys Disney.

3. Netflix can no longer compete with the 2 big tech behemoths with unlimited pockets and huge libraries. Netflix goes up for sale and Apple and Amazon duke it out for the last remaining big player.

“Family friendly brands owned by Disney”, are you being sarcastic?

Hasn't Peacock already shut down in the U.K.?

The expansion of Disney+ was built into the app from the beginning. In 2017 or so, when Bob Iger announced the name of the app, the word “Plus” accommodates every bit of expansion the service has seen/will continue to see.

I think you are correct about the wisdom of combining Disney+ with Hulu. My remaining question there is ESPN+. As a subscriber to The Disney Bundle, I am wondering how Mr. Iger will handle launching the complete ESPN app he wants juggling with ESPN+. I think it would be wise to convert ESPN+ to what he wants, rather than launching a fourth app. Or, bring true Live TV to Disney+ in a huge Disney+ offering truly combining the three services.

In addition to originals(which I prefer at Netflix ) Amazon offers brand names in movies which Netflix can’t reach, monetarily.

Family friendly on Disney? I won’t give them one cent

Streaming services have killed entertainment

Where do you see Philo in all this?

no mention of sling tv or directv stream?

Netflix Prime Video and Hulu it’s all you Need!

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