Don't be surprised if there's a cliffhanger at the end of the season, as the show was greenlighted for 2 seasons of 8 episodes each.
Same with Yellowstone and every other show, Good cliff hanger thoughWTF....an 8 episode season and they have to take a midseason break until Feb 5th.
This is how streaming (which has yet to make a cent) has to conduct itself. The flaw (well, one flaw) in streaming is churn. A customer picks up one, "binges" all the original content that looks interesting, then moves on to another, and so on, hoping that the first one has been refilled with something by the time its turn comes around again.
If what you say is true, then the sub numbers would not go up so much every quarter.
Every show on broadcast channels splits also, sometimes more then once, usually Nov-Dec., then again in March-first part of April, I know they make more episodes, but that is what their business model is, a few shows but more episode, streaming is less episodes but way too many shows ( I am very behind).WTF....an 8 episode season and they have to take a midseason break until Feb 5th.
Good googling. If only you understood what those numbers mean.
www.forbes.com
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Everyone here knows what churn is, but it is a meaningless statistic when you constantly gain subscribers quarter after quarter, not by little amounts, but a net gain of 3 million each quarter, they are making up that 7% and increasing by a lot more.Good googling. If only you understood what those numbers mean.
Why Are Streaming Churn Rates So High? Cost Is A Big Reason
Deloitte survey says 37% have added or dropped a streaming service in the U.S., higher than in other countries. Many want to minimize their costs. The churn rate is way higher with Gen Z and Millennials.
Why Streaming Churn Matters - Cross Screen Media
Six big questions re: how often we cancel streaming services: 1) What is churn? 2) How many subscribers cancel their service each month? 3) Why is reducing churn so important? 4) Which streaming services...
Average monthly churn rate in 2022 by streaming service:
1) Netflix – 3.3%
2) Disney+ – 4.2%
3) HBO Max – 4.7%
4) Peacock – 5.7%
5) Average – 5.8%
6) Discovery+ – 5.9%
7) Hulu – 6.4%
8) Apple TV+ – 6.6%
9) Paramount+ – 7.1%
10) Showtime – 7.4%
Streaming Subscriber Churn “Is Here to Stay,” Deloitte Survey Forecasts
Fair warning to Netflix, Disney, Paramount or any of the other entertainment companies looking to compete in streaming video: The problem of subscriber churn isn’t going away anytime soon. According to Deloitte’s 2022 Digital Media Trends survey, the churn rate for streaming services in the U.S...www.yahoo.com
The churn rate, which is well over 7% PER MONTH, is a different metric than the growth rate of subscribers.
What is happening, for those of us who understand basic metrics, is a huge churn rate. Over 7% in this case. The fact that subscriber numbers are growing, of course, is irrelevant. If you have 2 people leave and 3 new people come it, that doesn't change the churn rate. BASIC statistics. Eventually the subscriber numbers peak out (I think this is pretty certain for 2023) and then the churn becomes the major obstacle to profitability (which hasn't happened yet, still waiting to know what, exactly, has to happen for streaming to make a profit).
"Cliffhangers" and endless "midseason breaks" and such are the only way I can think of to fight the huge churn problem.
But maybe Paramount should just google us stuff until they find a statistic they don't understand and tell its stockholders that all is well.
Apparently not you. You googled up something that had nothing to do with churn and then hit me with, whatabout.
Forbes doesn't think so. Neither do all the other market analysts. I'll stick with them. They mostly don't use google for research.
The thing is, like this discussion is to avoid them. If you don’t want to take a chance on seeing a spoiler. I didn’t come into this thread this week, until after I saw the last episode, for example,
