"matt" (mattisnthererightnow)
07/31/2014 at 19:12 • Filed to: Drive
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"matt" (mattisnthererightnow)
07/31/2014 at 19:12 • Filed to: Drive | 0
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and since I don't go to the front page I wanted to ask you guys what you think of the new DRIVE+ channel has this been discussed already?
PushToStart
> matt
07/31/2014 at 19:18 |
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I think there were a couple posts yesterday.
All I have to say is that while paying for stuff that was free is kind of hard to get used to, at the end of the day, when you think about how much the production of those videos costs, subscription fees are necessary in order for them to continue to put out the stuff of that quality.
CRider
> matt
07/31/2014 at 19:29 |
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Let's assume 100k people pay the $4 a month. That's $400k a month they get to make videos, from a fraction of /DRIVE's subscriber base. So I have no doubt they will be successful and rich very soon. Great. But I won't be paying it. There's too much good free content on the internet to justify it.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> matt
07/31/2014 at 19:30 |
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I'll paraphrase what I said before - their update frequency will be key. If they only make one or two half hour episodes and maybe 3-4 10-15 minute segments.....I probably won't bother. If they get more than that, then it starts to make sense. I will also wait and see how unique their content is. It might be "high quality" but if its just some pretty camera work of a good looking car? Eh.....I also want to see what content NBC sports gets compared to the YouTube channels.
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matt
> PushToStart
07/31/2014 at 19:58 |
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I think you're definitely right about the value of their production, but even with their contract with NBC shouldn't that have been enough for them to keep doing what they have been, I know it's probably not some huge multi-million dollar deal but could it have been enough for them to avoid the subscription fee?
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PushToStart
> matt
07/31/2014 at 20:04 |
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The funding they get from NBC I imagine goes toward the production of whatever they make for NBC, since it's actually different than just their YouTube productions.