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From The Guardian:
Nearly three months ago, in early April, the $1.75bn content experiment known as Quibi lurched from its rocky, much-maligned promotional campaign into full-scale launch. The service offered a tsunami of celebrity-fronted shows segmented into "quick bites" (hence, "qui-bi") of 10 minutes or less – a Joe Jonas talk show, a documentary on LeBron James's I Promise school, a movie with Game of Thrones's Sophie Turner surviving a plane crash, all straight to your phone. At the time, many of us wondered if Quibi could deliver on its central promise – to refashion the style of streaming into "snackable" bites – or if, teetering under the weight of its massive funding and true who's who of talent as the world shut down, it would become shorthand for an expensive mistake.
The service, the brainchild of the DreamWorks Animation cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg and the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman – two billionaires deeply entrenched in Hollywood and Silicon Valley establishment – was "either going to be a huge home run or a massive swing and a miss," Michael Goodman, a media analyst with Strategy Analytics, told the Guardian. Given a string of bad news since its 6 April launch – missed targets, executive departures, Katzenberg singularly blaming the pandemic – and the sunset of its 90-day free trial with millions fewer subscribers than anticipated, the scales seemed decidedly tipped toward swing and miss. But while it's too soon to declare the end of Quibi, it's still worth asking: is the promise of the quick bite already over? And what went so wrong?
Previously: Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:28AM (4 children)
Homer took his time. No 20 sec.vignettes. Infact, he ranged over an entire epic, only starting with:
You see, Homer is setting us up for the long haul, the story of this πολύτροπον man, and you cannot wait to find out what he does, right? This is not YouTuber, but a real man, with a real story, if only you have the patience to listen to it!
And the other one:
Told ya, video games are all derivative, and all the best stories are Greek. Did I ever tell you about Oedipus? Great story! Family drama better than Kardashians, I promise!
See? Not the same ring to it, and definitely not material for a Netflix series. "Breaking Sad", that might work.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 30 2020, @11:22AM (2 children)
Well, it's just that you suck at writing it.
See? Sounds much better now.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Touché) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 30 2020, @08:51PM (1 child)
But, does it scan? Iambic, or dactylic hexameter?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:21AM
It is intended to be a dactylic hexameter. But since English is not my native language and especially English pronunciation isn't my strong point, I cannot guarantee it actually is.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @06:52PM
There one was a mighty buzzard
Who got his feathers quite ruffled
Over the taxes those liberal bastards
Levied upon his income