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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9031937" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>I mean, maybe... but they are coming up against the tough fact that there is a soft limit on how many streaming services people will subscribe to, and streaming just isn't ever going to be profitable in 5th or 6th place (it isn't always in 1st through 4th, but those seem viable long term). They're definitely poised to be a service that lots of people subscribe to for a month or two each year to catch up on the shows they are interested in, but you need to get to the point where people want to be subscribed enough of the time that they are too lazy to unsubscribe even in the months when there's no show they particularly want to watch being released.</p><p></p><p>Personally it might be the streaming service I have with the most original and exclusive shows I am invested in continuing to watch. The problem is that under that top tier of Trek and an upcoming D&D series and whatever other original stuff you care about and a few Paramount movies the service's content quickly falls to z-grade dreck (in my eyes at least). It's not as much of a "cheap cable garbage Viacom happens to own" dumpster fire as it was a few years ago, but still the pickings <em>for me</em> get pretty slim once I get past the marquee content. So it is a service I loyally return to for the original series but rarely turn to when I just want to put something on for the sake of putting something on.</p><p></p><p>So the question is not whether Paramount+ has worthwhile original content, but rather whether that content can power Paramount+, the combination of that quality content with all the random crap Viacom bought over the years and doesn't have to pay for, into being the number 3 or 4 streaming service. If not they should just produce content for a service that can get up there in the rankings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 9031937, member: 6988941"] I mean, maybe... but they are coming up against the tough fact that there is a soft limit on how many streaming services people will subscribe to, and streaming just isn't ever going to be profitable in 5th or 6th place (it isn't always in 1st through 4th, but those seem viable long term). They're definitely poised to be a service that lots of people subscribe to for a month or two each year to catch up on the shows they are interested in, but you need to get to the point where people want to be subscribed enough of the time that they are too lazy to unsubscribe even in the months when there's no show they particularly want to watch being released. Personally it might be the streaming service I have with the most original and exclusive shows I am invested in continuing to watch. The problem is that under that top tier of Trek and an upcoming D&D series and whatever other original stuff you care about and a few Paramount movies the service's content quickly falls to z-grade dreck (in my eyes at least). It's not as much of a "cheap cable garbage Viacom happens to own" dumpster fire as it was a few years ago, but still the pickings [I]for me[/I] get pretty slim once I get past the marquee content. So it is a service I loyally return to for the original series but rarely turn to when I just want to put something on for the sake of putting something on. So the question is not whether Paramount+ has worthwhile original content, but rather whether that content can power Paramount+, the combination of that quality content with all the random crap Viacom bought over the years and doesn't have to pay for, into being the number 3 or 4 streaming service. If not they should just produce content for a service that can get up there in the rankings. [/QUOTE]
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