Movies, TV Shows Available on Streaming Jumped 39% in Two Years (bloomberg.com) 16
The number of titles on streaming services jumped 39% over the past two years to 2.35 million, according to a report released Monday by market researcher Nielsen. From a report: Add in traditional broadcast and cable channels and the number of individual viewing options climbed to 2.7 million. The figures reflect movies and shows available in the US, Canada, the UK, Mexico and Germany. Netflix and Disney+ are among 167 streaming providers, up from 118 two years ago. The average time it takes someone to find something to watch has risen to more than 10 minutes from a little over seven minutes in 2019, Nielsen said.
In other words (Score:2)
Over the past two years, just about every entity that held the streaming rights for at least a couple movies or tv shows launched their own separate streaming service.
Race to the bottom (Score:3)
Re: Race to the bottom (Score:2)
I mostly stopped watching shows that don't have three seasons. I also seek out shows with 7+ seasons. Even if I don't watch all the seasons, there are very few terrible shows that get to season 7. Suits, for example, is a show I had no interest in, and very little awareness of. But once I saw 8 seasons on Netflix, I checked it out and it became the go-to for me and my girlfriend.
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39% more streaming content (Score:2)
shared over 3900% more streaming services.
Opportunity fatigue (Score:3)
I can't be the only one who wishes it were more like the 90s, when there was a truly limited amount of "entertainment", and you had to pick something available or just not indulge.
Now, you can scroll endlessly and still not find what you're looking for. The amount of attention required to keep up with "what's new" has grown exponentially, as well.
And so much of it is, frankly, not very good. They're all "direct to video" types of movies and shows which survived pre-internet simply by virtue of being available: people would pick them because they've seen everything else, absent any reviews.
Now, all that content (absent a meaningful rating system on eg. netflix) just crowds out the better produced material.
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I can't be the only one who wishes it were more like the 90s,
Nah, man. I totally wish it were still the 90's. The 90's were rad! But if today is too loud for you, maybe you are just old!
Pirate Bay still wins (Score:3)
And yet (Score:2)
The number of shows worth watching has remained consistent though they're spread over far more sources and paywalls.
cool stat, bro (Score:2)
now tell us how many freaking subscriptions we need to watch the shows we like.
fragmentation in the industry into hundreds of tiny exclusive studio/sites is killing it.
Re: cool stat, bro (Score:2)
1. Just commit to watching everything available from a service in one go.
I subscribe to Paramount+ for about one month a year, watch the new seasons of Star Trek, and then cancel. Much cheaper than buying three seasons (Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks) over at Vudu each year. And when time permits, I can also rewatch the four seasons of Enterprise.
The idea that each studio needs its own streaming service is laughably stupid. They are all aiming guns at each other in a Mexican standoff.
Are they de-duping that? (Score:2)
Is part of this because more content is being made available on multiple streamers? Did they properly de-dupe the data?