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Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It (www.wired.com)
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Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It::Warner Bros. Discovery's latest earnings call reveals Max shed 700,000 subscribers in the past three months, even as it made money. That might work for Wall Street, but what about viewers?

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[–] echo64@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Or they could have just sold it to someone else to do all that work

they tried to, netflix chose not to take the deals. Netflix chose to invest their money in netflix content production instead of relying on third parties.

I know you want to frame this as netflix could be a provider and everything else just produce content for it - you need to understand that netflix chose not to invest in paying for third party content, favouring it's own shows. that was a netflix choice.

the prices that netflix used to pay for things like the office and parks and rec were not "can actually fund development" levels, it was "make some extra money after the costs were already paid by cable" levels