The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.

  • Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    There’s no real way of knowing if having suits on there actually made them money though.

    Say they paid $10mil to have it on Netflix. Someone watching it doesn’t mean that if it wasn’t on Netflix they wouldn’t have subscribed. I watch stuff on Netflix all the time that wouldn’t have made me subscribe to Netflix just to see it. If they weren’t on there I wouldn’t care.

    They can guess at how much potential revenue having it on there makes, but there’s legitimately no real way to know. The only real way would be to remove suits from Netflix and then see how many subscribers they lose.