Members-only Event Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. PDT Sony Pictures in Culver City Where Will the Streaming Wars Lead Us? Pank Patel, in Conversation With LA Copyright Society Trustee Ian Slotin Third Annual Jamie Lichtman Members' Soirée Even before COVID disrupted our lives and viewing habits in 2020, Netflix had been busy disrupting the film and TV business. It offered its customers nearly unlimited premium television and film content for a low monthly price, the ability to binge entire series immediately, Oscar-level direct-to-streaming films, no advertising, and the option to cancel at any time. Netflix had created a product so compelling that it forced other major distributors to follow suit, which in turn accelerated the decline of more reliable ways to make money from content, including pay TV, digital sales and rentals, and windowing. Now, in 2023, it's clear that the streaming ecosystem is in trouble, or at least ripe for more upheaval. As content behemoths like Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, NBCUniversal and Sony struggle to formulate their plans to attempt streaming profitability, the resulting changes will affect everyone in the audiovisual creative industries. Could the old strategies -- advertising? bundling? contingent compensation? consolidation? -- ultimately save the industry? And where will newer players like Amazon and Apple fit in?
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