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by eduction 1097 days ago
That’s really funny, I was just an hour ago reading this long New York magazine story on streaming consolidation that Pocket suggested to me which contains this line:

“ Netflix claims its Basic With Ads tier brings in more revenue per user than its standard commercial-free plan”

“More revenue” links to https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/ads-on-netflix-12....

Overall story paints a picture of the chickens coming home to roost in streaming https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-m...

So I guess it’s not surprising that they would take away the least profitable plan.

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Ads will typically be more profitable for most things entertainment. Entertainment is generally cheap and far more profitable industries can pay more for ads than users are willing to spend.

People here are balking at paying like $10 a month for Netflix if they can't split it but likely take it as a given that you need to spend several hundreds each month for insurance.

Getting one customer on the latest aids medication can net a company 10s of thousands per year.

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