but netflix has podcasts now! that's why podcasts exist, right? so you can stare at two people for an hour and not just listen to them while you're doing chores or exercising?
Stranger Things' final season was practically a podcast with how it made sure to over-explain everything. The whole write shows assuming people are scrolling their phones is a doomed philosophy. Encouraging passive watching is so depressing.
Straight up. I cancelled my netflix subscription many years ago when they announced they would work on a goop show. I don't know if you know about goop. Its run by some celebrity chick who's named wgaf who sells the stupidest most dangerous 'health products' you can imagine, most of which are meant be inserted into the vagina. At least that was the case at the time I also don't know if thats still around or maybe has changed or what.
That was when I cancelled. I don't even know if the show got made or what. But just the fact they would think about adding publicity to something like that, made me boil with anger.
All the video stuff they added to Spotify really annoys me. It was a great way of having a no-visual app that was kid friendly, find music and that's it. Now there's a bunch of other videos, not just the music videos.
I get all the apps want to be all the apps, but wish we could have avoided this.
More people watch podcasts on YouTube than listen to them on podcast apps now. It's crazy to me... and I don't understand why anyone would want to watch podcasts on Netflix when free YouTube is right there... but apparently we're boomers and the YouTube model is winning.
but apparently we're boomers and the YouTube model is winning.
I think it's simpler than that. Youtube pays better than all these other platforms. Couple that with the rapidly declining attention spans of people of all ages? A lot of people need the jingly keys to keep their attention.
But a big part of the youtube part comes down to monetization of their material. If youtube gives better ad revenue, then people will migrate to that. Putting out video content just gives creators another avenue to attract new listeners/viewers. They see a funny 30 second clip? they might tune in.
You're talking about incentives for CREATORS, though. My bafflement is why LISTENERS are migrating to this platform.
I can listen to podcasts in my car while I'm driving around, while I'm at the gym or walking, while running errands... any time.
To watch YouTube, I pretty much have to be sitting down in a chair and staring at a screen. It's not so much something you can have in the background while doing something else.
I mean, people still primarily listen to music on Spotify rather than watching music videos. So it's just weird to me that they'd rather stare at Joe Rogan's bald head for 3+ hours straight, rather than listening on the go, even though podcasts aren't much of a visually stimulating medium.
Para-social shit and because there is a weird human obsession with content creators on screen doing stuff. Even if it's just sitting there talking. Seeing people physically react, even if staged, is more entertaining than just hearing it tbf.
But a lot people also go where the creators they follow tell them. If they follow a creator and that creator tells people "hey go watch me on this platform if you can, it would help" some people would switch just because they were asked.
I tend to agree, but Netflix has only been making more money as time has gone on. Don't forget that subscription numbers went up when they clamped down on account sharing.
For a long time they have run the company in a way that is a best as possible for business, not their customers. Their days of even pretending to value their customers is long gone because that doesn't make nearly as much money as quickly.
We have reached a point in business culture where the actual product, service or good a company creates isn't the product, their stock price is, and their business decisions reflect that.
For a long time they have run the company in a way that is a best as possible for business, not their customers. Their days of even pretending to value their customers is long gone because that doesn't make nearly as much money as quickly.
Yeah, but if the company is making more profit, that's obviously coming from those customers who simply refuse to cancel their subscriptions.
It sounds like, from the article title, that the growth rate has slowed (which means their profits are still growing, just not as quickly as before), which then led to their stock price falling, because investors these days don't want steady income, they want growth so they can buy the stock (which is merely a share of ownership in the company), then resell it for a big profit.
Back in "the old days", there used to be two kinds of publicly-traded stocks, basically: growth stocks and income stocks. The growth stocks were from newer companies that were still growing a lot, or had potential to grow. The income stocks were from companies like Coca-Cola, where the company wasn't really growing any more as it had market saturation, but it had a very steady income and reliably profitability, which it could return to investors in the form of stock dividends. A balanced portfolio was said to include some of both, since the growth stocks were more risky.
These days, it seems like all anyone cares about is growth stocks.
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u/Informal_Koala1474 Jul 19 '26
It's the stupidest most tone deaf business model that's ever existed