Not particularly shocking. Most of the Big Studios completely botched Streaming to a spectacular extent and turned it into a money pit. They realistically would have been better off banding together in groups of two or three per streaming service. To pool their content. Instead of spending out the ass trying to fill each studio’s personal individual streaming services.
Paramount in particular was struggling with making their IP popular again. And spectacularly botched a couple launches of new IP that could have led to merchandise deals and been licenses to print money. Such as Halo. T.V has just been in a general decline. This all came on the Heels of the Union Strikes. Where the demands were for more money and benefits the studios couldn’t really afford. You don’t ask Dad for a Pony when money is tight.
I used to be an Amazon Prime member. Half to get the fast shipping (that disappeared) and half to watch old Star Trek episodes.
Once Paramont pulled their IP from Amazon, that killed my reason for Prime since, by then, Amazon couldn't or wouldn't ship anything inside of a week.
Paramount Plus wanted too much per month just to access what I had on Amazon for "free".
So not only did they lose the income stream from Prime that didn't materialize with Paramount Plus, they helped put the nail in the coffin to Amazon's Prime income stream from me.
And it turns out I can do a search on Yandex and find just about anything in Parmount Plus catalog streamed for free if I don't mind getting it from Russia or Eastern Europe - something that probably wouldn't be possible if we were on better terms with that part of the world, as we would be if Trump were POTUS.
Not particularly shocking. Most of the Big Studios completely botched Streaming to a spectacular extent and turned it into a money pit. They realistically would have been better off banding together in groups of two or three per streaming service. To pool their content. Instead of spending out the ass trying to fill each studio’s personal individual streaming services.
Paramount in particular was struggling with making their IP popular again. And spectacularly botched a couple launches of new IP that could have led to merchandise deals and been licenses to print money. Such as Halo. T.V has just been in a general decline. This all came on the Heels of the Union Strikes. Where the demands were for more money and benefits the studios couldn’t really afford. You don’t ask Dad for a Pony when money is tight.
I used to be an Amazon Prime member. Half to get the fast shipping (that disappeared) and half to watch old Star Trek episodes.
Once Paramont pulled their IP from Amazon, that killed my reason for Prime since, by then, Amazon couldn't or wouldn't ship anything inside of a week.
Paramount Plus wanted too much per month just to access what I had on Amazon for "free".
So not only did they lose the income stream from Prime that didn't materialize with Paramount Plus, they helped put the nail in the coffin to Amazon's Prime income stream from me.
And it turns out I can do a search on Yandex and find just about anything in Parmount Plus catalog streamed for free if I don't mind getting it from Russia or Eastern Europe - something that probably wouldn't be possible if we were on better terms with that part of the world, as we would be if Trump were POTUS.
Now they get nothing from me.