The advertising is gravy. The main thing is they got you to buy Prime.
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Media Companies Are Ready to Sell. Does Anyone Want to Buy?
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The advertising is gravy. The main thing is they got you to buy Prime.
The weird thing about streaming is it is harder than ever to gauge what people are actually watching unless it is a smash hit. (ie Wednesday, Ted Lasso, Stranger Things, ect.) Some have said Saltburn is good (yet strange), but unsure just how big of a hit it is. I generally just use the services I have to see what they are promoting for new stuff (since I have Peacock I will try Poker Fac and Sanctuary: A Witches Tale on Sundance) and am watching through Black Sails on Starz, but elsewhere am "out of the loop." Looking at older cable ratings from a decade ago you could actually see what people are watching.
Owing to my position at the stations where I worked, I always got the "friends and family" discount at the local dealers and never had to suffer through the finance office. Then one day I was called in to help my daughter finance her first big automotive purchase at a dealer I'd never been to. I sat down in the finance office and right off the bat told the officer that I knew what was what. She was only a few days on the job, and immediately got really defensive. I said "look, I've been working with dealerships for 20 years and I know what the markups are. I know you've got a job to do, but that doesn't mean we can't negotiate. Let's see what we can do."
Knowledge is power.
Not sure if you understand that streaming analytics are available in real time, and include not only what programming is being watched, but how you're watching it; Firestick, SmarTV, what you watched an hour prior, and what show you searched.
Analytics are so much more precise and immediate than broadcast or cable.
Yes, but they seem incredibly "flash in the pan." For instance, a decade ago cable ratings consistently indicated that Family Guy reruns on Adult Swim were #1 most nights, whereas now it is difficult to know what kind of show has that pull. It looks like Young Sheldon on Netflix, but it seems like those types of viewing habits come and go at a rapid pace these days.
Where it takes you 2 1/2 hours to go 2 1/2 miles!
Hey! (And I'm being serious here) Cheyenne was kind of a surprise for us. It was a staging stop on the mad dash across the desert, which also featured a Basque restaurant in Winnemucca, Nevada, and the worst folk-singer ever in Park City, Utah, so we didn't expect much but there was much more to it than we thought. Wyoming generally was a pleasant surprise; I just wouldn't want to spend winters there. Plus there's the politics of the place.
Think of it as the difference between Google analytics verses Nielsen PPM. Your TV is just acting as a monitor to a PC used for streaming via the Internet. There's no need to be a designated panelist. If you are using the public Internet to watch TV in some form, how and what yo watch are immediately available to streaming companies/studios.
Updated estimate as of the end of Q4 2023:
Amazon Prime subscribers in the U.S.: 167.2 million
Amazon Prime subscribers in the U.S. who use Amazon Prime Streaming Video: 157.1 million
So---94% of Amazon Prime subscribers use the video service. Six percent don't.
It's always fun (and often deeply rewarding) to bring @Kelly A into the conversation.
Especially when he doesn't expect it.
As I recall, you're a Porsche guy. That's about the cash rate for that marque.
If Kelly's not gonna take it....
Ablin, WY's Main Street (not joking):
I'll be at the Top of the Mark:
When we did Grand Teton and Yellowstone in 2017, we came out through Cody, WY and went to the Buffalo Bill Museum. Had a great time, and Cody has a fairly charming historic downtown.
Our overnight stop was Thermopolis, for some remarkable petroglyphs outside town.
The best Basque food I've ever had was in Nevada---I've heard good things about The Martin Hotel in Winnemucca but haven't been. If you get the opportunity, Louis' Basque Corner in Reno and the J.T. Basque Bar and Dining Room in Gardnerville are tremendous.
We passed through Winnemucca on the way to Grand Teton, and what I'll never forget is the huge "Welcome To Winnemucca" sign....
...right on the edge of the cemetery. No way to get that shot without headstones in it.
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Would be crazy to see how Big Bang would do on Netflix or Friends these days. People watch the streaming service now more than ever. I wonder how small cult shows like Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23 (removed from Hulu last year) or evejln Mission Hill (where my avatar is from) would do?
Oh thank God---I was beginning to think it was a portrait.
Now that the new writers and actors contracts include payment based on streaming views we might see more of this viewing information publicly.
Re: Albin - IIRC, that white building next to the blue building used to be the general store, I think it would be a perfect location for a regional OTA TV control center...[I haven't been to Albin since 2006-06 though].
Re: One company owning all commercial TV transmitters - could reduce the overhead of maintaining all of them if an in-house tech staff was responsible for them. In return for the USA Gov allowing single company ownership, there could be some sort of (kinda) universal service requirement (as OTA DTV fades into the sunset...) - maintain at least 1 OTA DTV transmitter for each rural/remote/low population area.
Kirk Bayne
Re: One company owning all commercial TV transmitters - could reduce the overhead of maintaining all of them if an in-house tech staff was responsible for them. In return for the USA Gov allowing single company ownership, there could be some sort of (kinda) universal service requirement (as OTA DTV fades into the sunset...) - maintain at least 1 OTA DTV transmitter for each rural/remote/low population area.
Kirk Bayne
One company doesn't have to own all of the transmitters. Just do a maintenance sharing agreement with a common engineer. This is done in a lot of places already. Seems to me this started happening in the late 70s as the FCC loosened requirements.
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