TBI Weekly: Why 2024 could look rather like 2014 as streamers hunker down
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It’s almost a decade since Amazon Prime Video struck a pact with the BBC that kept Ripper Street on the air. As the SVOD rollercoaster delivers its latest banking turn, Richard Middleton explores whether we’re returning to the early days of streaming.
Streaming has lost its way, that much is clear.
Not, of course, if you are looking a decade or two into the future, once linear television has been consigned to the history books and the world’s viewers have all become disparate entities watching whatever we want, when we want to, all the time.
But in the medium term, it is becoming increasingly clear that making the sums add up for a global streamer – particularly one that hails from the US – is a tough task and an even harder business proposition.
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