[lightspeedwin]

With Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Apple, Amazon and all these streaming services cranking out content, do you think we're experiencing a bubble in a market that is oversaturated with content and eventually it will pop?

Part of me says no because most people don't care enough to critique and the content is so micro-targeted that it is likely to find an audience.

But there is the possibility that people will just get tired of the same content and with everyone making content, nobody will really be able to promote it and make it stand out and companies will lose money.

Which is the case?

[EgariMirage]

I think regular TV is getting satured. For Examplez take Formula 1, they'll be moving exclusively to a streaming service app. Don't think regular can keep up and have the money conpete.

[dededed]

Yeah i'm sure, a new streaming service is created every other week
it's just tv again where you have to pay for each channel

[olichan12]

There are now too many streaming services. They all claim to have the best original content, but there's no way to compare them, unless you watch them all. And you have to pay for each service to be able to do that. And beyond that, they all use the same legacy content.

And the one thing that's annoying af is that the streaming services seem to pass content from one service to another. Like, a movie will be on Amazon Prime until x date, and then you have to pay to rent it. But then, HBO Max will have that until y date, at which point, you must rent it. Then that same conent will be on Peacock until z date, etc. And all of this content will be the hit movies that people watch over and over and over.

In short: I think the market is beyond oversaturated, and people are going to get so sick of it, that they stop paying for these streaming services, except for one or two. And whichever has the most of the movies everyone wants to stream and re-stream over and over, plus the best original content, will win.

Ironically, all the new content being made by the streaming services, specifically for the streaming services, is a hell of a lot like the first 30 years of the film industry, when bunches of films were being put out every single day of the week, for about 30 years.

[TheBIrl512]

It will just increase piracy if more and more streaming services appear. It’s getting ridiculously expensive to subscribe to all of them and even then they don’t have everything on streaming services with some content you can only get from piracy or physical media.

[olichan12]

It’s getting ridiculously expensive to subscribe to all of them

This is why piracy will never end.

[dick9918]

They will flood the market until the next big thing comes along. Or buy each other out.

[olichan12]

They will flood the market until the next big thing comes along. Or buy each other out.

Both. That's the cycle they use on us.

[JeffMailler]

I really hope we are. As others have said it seems like every single channel or platform is making its own service these days. I don't think enough people will subscribe to them to warrant them staying around. It might take a few years, but I really hope we go down to a few services. Hopefully more than just Netflix and Hulu so there's not a monopoly on it or anything.

[Cali22]

I want to agree with some of the previous replies that it will pop because it's getting stupid expenses to have multiple streaming subscription, but then I doubt it because I feel ppl will just pirate the content so.... Maybe not

[Akio Dojima]

Most likely with the amount of new paid streaming services being made.

[Spitballjones23 Skip]

It’s just cable now. It was always going to be like this again.

[ash0ts]

Honestly I don’t know if we will have a “content bubble burst” because I believe that the media industry is too good at spinning out dopamine/seretonin producing generic shows which the masses want. That’s why other social media platforms flourish.

 I think people will get over the diversity in the choice of service to receive this generic show from, which may cause competitive growth in certain genres for certain platforms (like Disney+ having the connotation of being really kid friendly).

[Anoner Randomess]

Yes, quite rapidly. As regular cable begins to get overrun by the on demand availability of online platforms many cable companies will (or already have) start investing in streaming services of their own to keep up with the times. Leading to (essentially) a new version of cable without cable boxes (which is just cable but now in your web browser or on an app instead of using a dedicated computer. Which will have defeated the original point of on demand streaming that netflix set out to do originally by consolidating all media in one place (which yeah is a monopoly true). Now youll have to have 4 different subscriptions for all of your content or itll be PPV.

[paulmilesimo]

feels like the quality has been slowly dipping