[quote:0080890279="Jonwo" pid="1179087"]I notice Amazon changed Prime Originals/Exclusives to Amazon Originals/Exclusives.[/quote:0080890279]
I thought it was the other way. The Grand Tour was an Amazon Originals, but the latest series was Prime Originals. Naming aside it’s still the same thing.
Only in the last year or so Amazon’s branding has been a bit more consistent. We’ve had Amazon Prime, Amazon Video, now Prime Video
I know options are limited but I struggle to see why big companies think price hikes are the answer to declining custom. You've only got to look at the National Lottery increasing the standard draw tickets from £1 to £2 with the promise of bigger jackpots. They didn't seem to realise the vast amount of people who'd protest by not playing led to the jackpots not increasing at all.
In 2012, there were 2.4bn main draw lottery tickets sold at £1 each.
Part way through 2013, prices increased to £2.
In 2014, there were 2.6bn main draw lottery tickets sold at £2 each.
While it's true that the average jackpot barely changed (£4.5m in 2012 and £4.6m in 2014), that evidently wasn't due to a decrease in ticket sales as the doubling of the price co-incided with an increase in sales which bucked the long-term trend of decline.
I know options are limited but I struggle to see why big companies think price hikes are the answer to declining custom. You've only got to look at the National Lottery increasing the standard draw tickets from £1 to £2 with the promise of bigger jackpots. They didn't seem to realise the vast amount of people who'd protest by not playing led to the jackpots not increasing at all.
In 2012, there were 2.4bn main draw lottery tickets sold at £1 each.
Part way through 2013, prices increased to £2.
In 2014, there were 2.6bn main draw lottery tickets sold at £2 each.
While it's true that the average jackpot barely changed (£4.5m in 2012 and £4.6m in 2014), that evidently wasn't due to a decrease in ticket sales as the doubling of the price co-incided with an increase in sales which bucked the long-term trend of decline.
Way off topic but interesting, though concerning how the jackpot didn't rise in the way I'm sure they originally promised as I'd guess they'd planned it on a decrease of sales.
As for the main lotto I suspect t I'm not the only one who now only does it for their Rolldown drawers which happen after 5 drawers with no jackpot winners - so essentially every 5 draws.
For another topic probably but how did losing the live draw shows on BBC1 affect sales?
For another topic probably but how did losing the live draw shows on BBC1 affect sales?
Brief answer: big drop (22.8m tickets per draw to 19.1m), but it was dropping pretty quickly anyway so the marginal effect isn't easy to deduce. As per james-2001's comment, in 1996, the average was over 73m, which is pretty remarkable.
Back to Netflix and $17bn wiped off its valuation in a single day this week as results showed they only got just over half of the 5m new subscribers they predicted and for the first time lost subscribers in the US.
Going to be hard to keep subscribers when you're going to be paying more for less content. And that feels like it's going to be the case for most of the major services, losing content as more companies set up their own.
Going to be hard to keep subscribers when you're going to be paying more for less content. And that feels like it's going to be the case for most of the major services, losing content as more companies set up their own.
I think we may be heading for a period of consolidation streaming wise - there's only a finite amount of money in everybody's back pockets after paying out your essential monthly bills after all. Think it was worked out previously if we all subscribed to every streaming service going that we can get it's knocking on for £25 a month. Of course it depends on how much you want certain types of content and where you can get it from
Pay per view though hasn't really proved as successful as a monthly subscription previously though, especially as they're usually priced around £2.99-£3.99 for a film, then around 99p to £1.99 for an episode and usually at least the equivalent of a monthly subscription fee for a series.