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ImPureAwesome posted:They were bought and the company that bought them are trying to sell archive access and premium content to try to turn their app into podcast Netflix Midroll was a merger between The Mid Roll and Earwolf. They then created Howl. They are all one thing, not one company buying another.
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Seeso and MaxFun do not cross pollinate. All I'm saying is that if you dig this TV show, you might want to tweet/facebook to Seeso that you subbed for MBMBaM and you want more, and perhaps they will get a second season.
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Feb 22, 2017 08:12
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bunky posted:Seeso and MaxFun do not cross pollinate. All I'm saying is that if you dig this TV show, you might want to tweet/facebook to Seeso that you subbed for MBMBaM and you want more, and perhaps they will get a second season. And maybe get other good podcasts a show like Oh No, Ross and Carrie. Though they do get obnoxious sometimes.
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Feb 22, 2017 08:23
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Inzombiac posted:And maybe get other good podcasts a show like Oh No, Ross and Carrie. i don't think a show like oh no, ross and carrie would work as a tv show like, at all
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Feb 22, 2017 08:56
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I was rewatching the episode on YouTube and my five-year-old boy came into the room to tell me that his brother did a hit on him. That's some brand synchronicity.
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Feb 22, 2017 09:03
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Seeso is US only which is pretty insane seeing they have a lot of international stuff on there. I'd definitely sub for Harmonquest + MBMBAM but can't! It looks like Seeso is owned by NBC, which kinda makes sense - yet another US company that thinks the world ends at Maine & Alaska. I'm a bit cheesed.
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Feb 22, 2017 11:26
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The international stuff is almost certainly why we can't get it
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Feb 22, 2017 11:31
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First episode of mbmbam show on youtube was pretty darn entertaining
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well why not posted:
You've got it backwards. NBC wants all the international seeso subscription money they could possibly get, but they have to negotiate and pay for the licence for every show they don't specifically own themselves. They have to pay for this content to be shown in every possible country they open it up to. This is why Netflix has different content available depending on the county - licencing rights. Setting that up on a per-country basis is a nightmare that Netflix knows all too well, that's why keeping things to just America is the better model if you're not Netflix.
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Feb 22, 2017 11:44
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Easier for them, yes, but I wouldn't call it 'better' because it is completely non-functional for me.
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Feb 22, 2017 11:52
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To put licencing costs in terrible perspective, Netflix has 93 million users averaging  a month and they still can't afford this poo poo.
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Scudworth posted:To put licencing costs in terrible perspective, Netflix has 93 million users averaging They still can't afford what?
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thexerox123 posted:They still can't afford what?
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bowmore posted:licensing? Netflix pretty clearly can afford licensing. Licenses being exclusively held by other companies already in other regions would tend to be the bigger problem. Regions other than the US get their own exclusive title libraries, though.
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Scudworth posted:Midroll was a merger between The Mid Roll and Earwolf. They then created Howl. They are all one thing, not one company buying another. I think he was referring to Earwolf/Midroll getting bought out by E.W. Scripps. They started Howl just before that sale, but still.
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Netflix's problem is less that they can't afford licensing costs and more that companies (especially cable companies) now view Netflix as a direct competitor and intentionally don't renew licenses with the company to push people to watch the content on their own proprietary streaming services like Hulu. Think about it: does Netflix really have any benefit from losing shows that people want to watch? People like to bite on Netflix all the time for how much content has left the service since launch as if Netflix could really do anything about it. That's why Netflix has had such a big push towards original content in recent years, by the way -- in the worst case scenario where cable companies just completely cut the service out, they still want to have a backbone of shows people will still want to watch.
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flatluigi posted:That's why Netflix has had such a big push towards original content in recent years, by the way -- in the worst case scenario where cable companies just completely cut the service out, they still want to have a backbone of shows people will still want to watch. Additionally, since Netflix themselves own this content, they retain broadcasting rights worldwide, avoiding the region problem.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:33
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Inzombiac posted:Ditto and Juice still working for Polygon makes sense since they are both enmeshed with their video series. And, c'mon, it's not like writing about video games is laborious work. No, but consistently making content that is actually funny is
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thexerox123 posted:Netflix pretty clearly can afford licensing. Licenses being exclusively held by other companies already in other regions would tend to be the bigger problem. Canadian Netflix is garbage
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Improbable Lobster posted:Canadian Netflix is garbage exclusive garbage!
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Greatbacon posted:If you consider that MBMBAM has close to 2-3 million active listeners, and only 0.5% of those listeners donate to MaxFun at the minimum level, that's at least $50K a month. And if you say that between distribution among all contributors to the network, the network's cut, overhead, and taxes they maybe only see $15K of that a month for all three? That's the functional equivalent of a 90K a year salary per dude, for what is essentially an hour and a half of them bullshitting on skype over the weekend and maybe another hour or two of editing. And that's before any cuts for ad revenue and shutouts. Not only are you magically inventing 30K a year per person on top of your already specious estimates, but I think you're understating the effort involved pretty significantly
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ALFbrot posted:Not only are you magically inventing 30K a year per person on top of your already specious estimates, but I think you're understating the effort involved pretty significantly Editing takes a looooong time
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Improbable Lobster posted:Canadian Netflix is garbage It has improved significantly in the last 5 years. It is not nearly as garbage as it used to be.
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Asiina posted:It has improved significantly in the last 5 years. It is not nearly as garbage as it used to be. It's still garbage
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Improbable Lobster posted:Editing takes a looooong time Also, each brother is their own separate source, so Griffin has to make sure that 3 separate recordings sync up perfectly. I'm sure he has a lot of drinking and crunching and chewing to edit out each week, too. It's probably not as much editing as a lot of podcasts out there, but it's probably a decent amount at least.
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Also, for most people, writing about anything is a laborious process, especially if you're trying to do it right. There are some writers who can hook themselves up to a direct pipeline from god and just let the words flow, and we hate them with a passion.
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Serf posted:direct pipeline from god To the layman, this is called "bourbon and narcotics."
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Improbable Lobster posted:No, but consistently making content that is actually funny is Yep - I write (boring grant reports, not comedy) for a living, and consistently producing decent writing on a deadline that hits specific requirements, targets a specific audience, and is in line with the house style requires a lot more effort than the end product might suggest. Especially because if you're doing it well, it ought to sound like it didn't take all that effort. It's very different from writing a novel or a personal essay or something.
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Inzombiac posted:And maybe get other good podcasts a show like Oh No, Ross and Carrie. I've never seen a podcast so centered around the hosts jerking themselves off over how smart they are
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Tatum Girlparts posted:exclusive garbage! does it have terrace house?
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Farg posted:I've never seen a podcast so centered around the hosts jerking themselves off over how smart they are I was under the impression that this was what Jordan Jesse Go was about.
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JJGo is fine if a bit boring. On Oh No you can hear the contempt and self satisfaction dripping from every word whenever they describe interacting with someone.
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Well the people they are talking to are literally snake oil salesmen and cult leaders. How much contempt is appropriate for people like that
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purple death ray posted:Well the people they are talking to are literally snake oil salesmen and cult leaders. How much contempt is appropriate for people like that it's more that they seem to be under the impression everyone in their audience is PRO snake oil? So like, every episode is just two unfunny nerds going "Oh my GOD I can't believe you thought this was true" as they jerk each other off. Also their original pitch was to be a general fringe thing where it'd include stuff like just kinda weird communities and groups and all that could use maybe some representation, but it's a lot easier to just laugh at retards who buy boner pills.
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Farg posted:JJGo is fine if a bit boring. On Oh No you can hear the contempt and self satisfaction dripping from every word whenever they describe interacting with someone. ONRaC just pick a topic that you have a particular disdain for and you might enjoy the dogpile. They're not always that bad tonally but it's much easier to notice if you know nothing about what they're talking about. Pocky In My Pocket posted:does it have terrace house?
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SpacePig posted:Also, each brother is their own separate source, so Griffin has to make sure that 3 separate recordings sync up perfectly. If I've learned anything from let's plays, it's that this part is actually really easy. You just get everyone to say "1, 2, 3, sync" at the same time, and use that as your sync point.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:it's more that they seem to be under the impression everyone in their audience is PRO snake oil? So like, every episode is just two unfunny nerds going "Oh my GOD I can't believe you thought this was true" as they jerk each other off. That does sound pretty obnoxious. I admit I haven't listened to the show in a couple of years. The Tony Alamo cult was the last one I remember.
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I'm no huge fan of Ross and Carrie but from the few episodes I've listened to that's not the impression I got at all. Even at places like the creation museum their ire was squarely focused on the people running it, not even followers.
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Does anyone know what time Seeso puts stuff up usually? I want to know if I'm going to be able to watch the show in the morning or if I'll have to way until the night.
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Just thinking about the Suffering Game arc and I remembered something a while ago that I think might be relevant to the long-teased possibility of one of the characters actually dying. In Crystal Kingdom, Noelle and the other robo-ghosts were able to understand information which had been destroyed by the Voidfish. Later the Director said that maybe people who had gone to the Astral Plane and back were immune to the Voidfish's effects. We know that all three of the guys have some extra Voidfish-style brain-static that has never been explained, and we know that other Voidfish exist. What if the point of potentially killing one of the characters was to reveal whatever information has been erased from their memories?
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