streaming services will soon cost you
more than cable TV well maybe not more
but those 10 to $15 monthly
subscriptions are definitely going to
start adding up because you want access
to all this exclusive content on
specific platforms just look at all
these popular shows stranger things
Netflix exclusive Handmaid's Tale Hulu
exclusive the marvelous mrs. Mazal
Amazon exclusive that's already three
different services for a total of about
$30 a month think about how you get your
content your movies and your shows is it
from cable or is it from a streaming
service or multiple streaming services I
have Netflix Netflix Netflix Hulu Amazon
Prime Xfinity stream a little bit of
Showtime now I have stars and I pay for
HBO and gave it third and so on
streaming media is where the viewers are
cable TV lost almost 4 million
subscribers over the past six years
while streaming services like Netflix
gained over 27 million subscribers like
I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up
just because I didn't want to sit
through the commercials but now I watch
a ridiculous amount of TV because I can
go straight to the content there are
Netflix originals like queer eye and
nailed it and stranger things and big
mouth I like the ability to binge watch
TV there's a huge backlog of things like
The Office and Parks and Rec I don't
have to wait until next week to see the
next episode and then there's all these
comedy specials that I love to watch
like John Mulaney and Trevor Noah and
it's just the best it makes sense for
streaming services to gravitate towards
more exclusive and original content to
keep their viewers locked in but us
viewers kind of lose because our
favorite movies and shows are being
distributed in many different places as
opposed to one place and we have to pay
for multiple services to get all the
content we want but then again how many
people actually pay for their content
according to research about 1 in 10
Netflix homes share their accounts I
don't pay for any my streaming services
I'm on my family's phone plan and 13
mobile we have free Netflix I do pay for
all the services I use except for my
sister pays for Netflix and we share why
do I pay for that looks and what happens
when you want to watch something that
isn't available on Netflix or Hulu you
guessed it online pirating streaming
services help curtail Online Piracy
significantly over the years but it's
starting to increase now that movies and
shows are becoming more and more
fragmented across an increasing number
of platforms one 20:18 report showed
BitTorrent traffic increased 9.2 percent
in the Americas 19% in Asia Pacific
countries and a staggering 32 percent
across Europe the Middle East and Africa
the report even found that countries
with a delay to get the latest and
greatest content especially American
content are seeing extremely high
growths in piracy as one writer of the
report put it to get access to all of
these services it gets very expensive
for a consumer so they subscribe to one
or two and pirate the rest just think
how are people gonna stream all the
episodes of friends if it gets pulled
from Netflix they could either watch it
on TBS pay for it on YouTube Amazon or
Google Play or might try to Google watch
this movie for free online I hate to
break it to you but searching watch free
online doesn't exclude you from online
pirating and the reason shows are no
longer available on streaming platforms
has a lot to do with licensing Netflix
already cancelled most of its Marvel
shows like daredevil and Luke Cage just
as Disney which owns Marvel is getting
ready to launch their own streaming
service called Disney Plus in 2019
remember Disney owns Marvel Pixar Star
Wars 21st Century Fox part of Hulu and
more so if you were hoping for cocoa to
stay on Netflix in the future
you probably should enjoy it as much as
you can before Disney Plus comes out and
AT&T which owns Warner Brothers and DC
Comics is also planning to launch their
own streaming service for 2019 the
company already has DC Universe which
has shows like Batman the animated
series and the Superman movies and
naturally exclusive shows like Titans
and Young Justice it's hard not to
imagine them launching separate services
for Harry Potter Looney Tunes and every
other franchise look I get it
companies like Disney want to control
access to their content rather than
letting someone else make money off of
it but this doesn't benefit the consumer
in any way this fragmented distribution
makes content harder to find and
consumers are forced to pay more plus it
looks like there's a correlation between
the service fragmentation and piracy
increase it looks like consumer wallets
are going to have to continue to be
dinged with an increasing amount of ten
to fifteen dollar services which may
lead them to quit some turn to piracy
and force companies to take a different
approach
it just says Netflix