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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 04:00    Post subject: Quibi
Almost $3 billion lost in six months: 'Gamechanger' mobile platform Quibi shuts six months after launch

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It was meant to be the gamechanger: short-form video content perfectly tailored for a millennial attention span, and delivered to them in the only way they consume that content, on their phones. But now, just six months after it was born, Quibi is officially shutting down.


https://www.9news.com.au/technology/quibi-shuts-down-just-six-months-and-2-billion-dollars-after-being-created/ba1e3883-876a-4c77-bbc2-39895a5ca212

Who'd have thought Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 04:59    Post subject:
Laughing

And it shits down a day after they announced a “change in direction” and releasing an Apple TV app. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 05:08    Post subject:
You mean Hollywood model doesn't work anymore? No wonder TikTok took off Laughing


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 05:44    Post subject:
Quibi is much closer to TikTok than “Hollywood”.
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 09:29    Post subject:
So... short clip hollywood (shit) shows?
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It was meant to be the gamechanger: short-form video content perfectly tailored for a millennial attention span, and delivered to them in the only way they consume that content, on their phones.
Guessing most millenials might be interested, but probably when it's youtube, instagram, etc, with people other than hollywood twats acting out


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 10:52    Post subject:
https://twitter.com/lukexcunningham/status/1318982719922032641?s=21

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Quibi made their “episodes” 11 minutes to avoid paying union writers. Everyone should MC Hammer dance on their grave.

By playing credits between each act, instead of commercials, Quibi claimed a 10 episode season was actually 40 “low budget under 12 minute episodes”, allowing them to skirt SAG (actors union) and WGA (writers union) minimums. They were a scab-based business model.
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 11:24    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 11:39    Post subject:
You know, at what point do we start blaming retarded “investors” putting their fund money in retarded ideas? Throw money at me, and I’ll burn through 2 billions just fine.
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 12:12    Post subject:
What's there to blame? They have billions anyway, it's not like they are going to starve now. For them, it's just gambling/guessing, hoping it will take off and will make them even richer.

But yeah, it's basically a matter of convincing enough people of your idea and then trying to stretch it as long as possible ("when you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem), and then get out of it as soon as you can Laughing

Think Nikola (which was entirely built on air, it seems Laughing Trevor Milton still sold his stocks for 3 billion, not bad for a used cars salesman Wink ) or Star Citizen.


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 12:34    Post subject:
So when is reno911 being released out to the wild?


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 12:40    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 14:10    Post subject:
u guys laughing but this just proves how we will never get a youtube alternative ...
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 15:07    Post subject:
how the fuck do you lose 3 billion $ in 6 months...
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Oct 2020 15:10    Post subject:
u buy content Very Happy pirates were smart Very Happy, and pay instragrmmers millions
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Oct 2020 01:33    Post subject:
Truth be told, they raised almost 2 billion from big companies like Viacom, Disney, Comcast, AT&T, and even got millions in ad commitments from Pepsi, Walmart, etc... money that went to lots of creative folks putting together content.

I admit I only saw pirated versions of their Fugitive (was decent enough), Die Hart (worth it alone just to ogle Nathalie Emmanuel), and the wonderful quarantined-from-home-shot Princess Bride (which had me throwing on the original just so I could see "more"). Hardly a fraction of their content, but nothing else interested me that I noticed.

You can judge the content for yourself, but the fact that some of those smaller projects gave independent creative people a chance to take studio money, albeit indirectly since the studio system likely wouldn't have given them anything.

So yeah, a failure as a venture for sure. But kudos to taking advantage of the studios that won't take chances on their own content and keep pouring out remakes and sequels and wait with bravado for the world to break out in simultaneous applause.

(though I realize several studios do take chances on some films and series, and I know I'm over-generalizing, the point still stands)
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Oct 2020 01:44    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
shits down


Was that a typo? Laughing


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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Oct 2020 05:27    Post subject:
PickupArtist wrote:
u guys laughing but this just proves how we will never get a youtube alternative ...


There are many.
Just doesn't grow user base.
Quibi was never a youtube alternative or a concept for one.


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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Oct 2020 05:28    Post subject:
headshot wrote:
LeoNatan wrote:
shits down


Was that a typo? Laughing

Wink Laughing

As much as "shit delete" is a typo.
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Oct 2020 13:40    Post subject:
Were any of the shows available there ripped for watching on something other than a mobile phone?



1 and 2 are still amazing.
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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:04    Post subject:
Yuri wrote:
Were any of the shows available there ripped for watching on something other than a mobile phone?

Screens pls



1 and 2 are still amazing.
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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:11    Post subject:
Most of their shows are out in 1080p, if that's what you mean?
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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:22    Post subject:
monk3ybusin3ss wrote:
Most of their shows are out in 1080p, if that's what you mean?


Bitch where?!


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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:27    Post subject:
Everywhere, just search for QUIBI in the release name.

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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:37    Post subject:
Bitch i can't click those links!!!
Its broken!!!






Photoshop!!!!!!


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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:50    Post subject:
monk3ybusin3ss wrote:
Most of their shows are out in 1080p, if that's what you mean?

Yeah, thanks Is The Stranger out?



1 and 2 are still amazing.
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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:55    Post subject:
The.Stranger.S01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-WELP
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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Oct 2020 20:59    Post subject:
monk3ybusin3ss wrote:
The.Stranger.S01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-WELP

Thanks again Smile



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PostPosted: Sat, 31st Oct 2020 02:50    Post subject:
Fuck yes!
Thanks men.


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