Cordkillers 141 - Do I Take a Raincoat Today?
Netflix raises subscribers and kills revenue forecasts while cable networks lose subscribers. And YouTube brings The Rock to its originals.
CordKillers: Ep. 141 - Do I Take a Raincoat Today?
Recorded: October 17 2016
Guest: None
Intro Video
Primary Target
- The networks getting hardest-hit by Cord-Cutting
- Data from Deutsche Bank comparing subscription rates for US cable networks 2011-2015
- Biggest drop, The Weather Channel, down 12 million (Verizon FIOS stopped carrying it)
- Spike TV number 2, ESPN number 3 MTV number 4, ESPN2 number 5. (Many Viacom)
How to Watch
- Netflix adds 3.57M new subscribers, including 3.2M international, beating Wall Street expectations
- Netflix's price hike didn't hurt subscriber growth
- Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
- Netflix will reportedly add offline mode before the end of the year
- Hey remember all those hot takes about the end of Netflix?
- Netflix just beat its own and wall street's expectations for revenue and subscriber growth in Q3
- Added 3.2 million international subscribers and 370,000 domestic.
(forecast was 2.3 million worldwide)
- Total subs now at 86.7 million
- Expects to add 5 million accounts worldwide in the next quarter
- “Our over-performance against forecast was driven primarily by stronger than expected acquisition due to excitement around Netflix original content.”
- Streaming Observer reports Netflix has 31 of the top 250 movies on IMDB
- Compared to clayton_frisbie list on Reddit two years ago showed Netflix had 49.
- Dan Taitz, COO of mobile video firm Penthera told Light Reading that Netflix is actively working on offline vieweing.
What to Watch
- Goliath, Amazon’s new legal drama, shows what streaming TV can learn from '90s TV
- Amazon released its 8-episode Billy Bob Thornton drama, Goliath from creators David R. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro (Picket Fences, The Practice). It's a a procedural lawyer drama circa 1990s style with a serialized story in the background. - Netflix acquired the rights to The Expanse outside North America and New Zealand. Season 1 comes November 3rd.
- YouTube Orders Shows From Dwayne Johnson, Dan Harmon, Doug Liman
- Monday at Mipcom, YouTube global head of content Susanne Daniels announced three new YouTube original series coming to YouTube Red subscribers.
- Dwayne Johnson ep on half hour action series tentatively called Lifeline. Insurance agents sent 33 days ahead in time to prevent accidental client deaths.
- Doug Liman ((“Bourne Identity,” “Live. Die. Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow”) directing hour-long Impulse about a 16-year-old girl who discovers she can teleport.
- Scripted comedy by Game Grumps from Dan Harmon's Starburns Industries follows an eSports team. - Amazon Will Fund Another Season of This Cold War Drama
- Amazon will fund a new season of German Cold War Drama Deutschland 83 to be called Deutschaland 86. The first 8-episode season premiered in 2015 through European broadcaster RTL group. It tracked an East German spy under cover in the West German army. The new Amazon season will take place three years after the first season. - Netflix reportedly spent $40 million on Chris Rock
- Chris Rocks first comedy specials in 8 years will be on Netflix. Multiple outlets report Netflix bid for the rights to two specials at $40 million. - Coen brothers are writing 'Dark Web,' the Silk Road movie
- Fox is making a movie about Ross Ulbricht the founder of the underground online marketplace Silk Road, called Dark Web. Hollywood Reporter says the Coen brothers will write the screenplay based on the Wired series of artcicles on Ulbricht.
What We're Watching
- Brian: The Siege of Jadotsville, Westworld, Justified
- Tom: Supergirl, The Flash, This is Us, Westworld (103), Justified (401), Saturday Night Live
- On the Lookout: Black Sails
Front Lines
- YouTube Debate Viewership Proves the Power of Digital
- Last Sunday's US Presidential debate attracted 63 million TV viewers, down 20% from the first. However YouTube reported this past week that they showed 124 million views of live streams of the debate on the platform, a 40% spike. Fa - Twitter teams with BuzzFeed for a live election night stream
- Twitter will partner with Buzzfeed for US election night coverage on November 8th. The live stream will start at 6 PM Eastern. The two companies will work with volunteer data outfit Decision Desk HQ to make calls on election results - Facebook now lets cast videos to your TV
- Facebook has added support for Apple's AirPlay and Google's Cast function. When watching a video in your Facebook app tap the TV button int he top right and select the device you want to stream to. You can continue to browse facebook while the video plays on your TV. The function is live in the iOS app and coming to Android soon. YouTube and Periscope have similar functions. - Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out
- Netflix may be winning the war on VPN as the CBC cites three VPN providers that seem to be giving up fighting the company to unblock the services region blocks. Thanks to John Jackson for pointing out the article. - CBS All Access launched on the PlayStation 4 last week. It's the normal $6 a month or $10 month without commercials.
Dispatches from the Front
I was listening to the Chris Plante Show during the whole hurricane Matthew thing was happening and Chris Plante had a friend who was in the hurricane and said the storm had just blown over. Thankfully, there was minimal damage to his home, but what I found interesting was that he didn't lose telephone, he didn't lose internet and he didn't lose electricity. The only this he lost was cable. If he wanted to watch cable shows, he would need to find an alternative and likely visit different sites in order to view each individual cable channel, and probably couldn't watch cable on his TV.
From,
- Amar
Would love to hear your comments on Comcast's data cap of 1 terabyte. I'd like to drop my Dish network for PlayStation Vue, but worried I'd burn through my data.
Any real world experience out there that can help?
- Brian
Hey guys!
I wanted to address the email Bob sent in last week regarding hockey on Playstation Vue. As a cord cutter and huge St. Louis Blues fan, this was something that was very important when I considered dropping cable. PlayStation Vue ... does allow you to log in to the NBC Sports app, so that may be an option for watching ...games. Another thing to consider is 60 frames per second streaming, which is very important for hockey. Chromecast is capable of doing 60 FPS for PS Vue, but depending on which generation Fire Stick Bob has, it may not be able to handle it. I personally use both a Fire TV and Roku 2 for PS Vue at home and an iPad for mobile, and all of them work great for hockey.
Anyway, love the show; keep up the great work!
Your boss,
- Tom
David Pick in Wisconsin went back to cable and is logging his experience on his YouTube channel. He has two versions up one in which he literally cuts a coax cable for you!
Thanks,
-Dave. Best of luck with your experiment
The short cut.
https://youtu.be/P2v9kBMhu_4
The long cut.
https://youtu.be/W5kjgBw96sE
Links
patreon.com/cordkillers