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Fox Could Buy Tubi While NBCUniversal Eyes Vudu

posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the tubey-and-voodoo dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Fox is reportedly eyeing Tubi. [Editor's Note: Tubi is a streaming service.]

Tubi is available in the US, Canada and Australia on Android and iOS, as well as on devices such as Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Roku and Apple TV. Content is also viewable at www.tubi.tv. The company plans to launch in more areas including the UK and Mexico in the coming year.

[...] As more streaming services such as Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus launch to compete with the likes of Netflix, several companies are also looking to free, ad-supported platforms aimed at customers who might not be willing to dish out more money for an ever-growing list of paid offerings.

Last year, it was reported that Walmart could be thinking of selling Vudu, a service that lets customers rent or purchase individual shows or movies. Vudu also launched a free, ad-supported service in 2016. 

Walmart reportedly purchased Vudu for around $100 million in 2010, and says the service is installed on more than 100 million devices in the US. It's not clear if there will be a deal between NBCUniversal and Vudu, people familiar with the matter told The Journal. A Walmart representative declined to comment, but said the company is "constantly having conversations with partners."

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:30PM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:30PM (#962420) Homepage

    Tubi Vudu Caca Pupu Peepee! What the fuck am I reading, the dialogue from Star Wars Episode I?

    Seriously though, Silicon valley naming trends are pure cancer. I remember being in a software engineering class and the professor proposed making a "shortest path" map app using a map of the campus. He asked the class to name the project. I proposed "Pathfinder." Doesn't that sound cool? Then the class tool proposed "Mapr" because Flickr and names like it were the trend at the time. Being more of a businessman than a coder, the professor chose to use the name "Mapr" literally because that was what was trendy at the time and to him it made better sense.

    The class tool, by the way, proposed that a Regex parser be added in a Winamp-style music app to search for media. Way overkill and I wonder if he knew RegEx in the first place or was just trying to sound smart.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:01PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:01PM (#962441) Journal

      They might as well call it PooDoo [fandom.com], because 75% of these streaming services are going to go bankrupt, get shut down, or merge into the larger ones.

      The one I'll be watching closely is the MILLENNIAL-OPTIMIZED Quibi [soylentnews.org], which has Meg Whitman of all people running captaining it. They splurged on a Super Bowl ad:

      Quibi knows you have no idea what Quibi is [qz.com]

      The upcoming mobile streaming service, debuting April 6 in North America, aired its first national ad in the United States during the Super Bowl last night, attempting to add its quirky name to the cultural lexicon. “I’ll be there in a Quibi,” radios the getaway driver for a bank heist as his partners wait for pickup. “A what?!” one of them asks. “A Quibi,” the driver replies, “less than ten minutes.”

      Quibi’s pitch is that its content can be consumed in short, easy spurts on the go, while still boasting Hollywood-level production and A-list talent. (The made-up word is a portmanteau of “quick bites.”) Available only on phones, the app will stream a variety of shows to subscribers, from a reality series hosted by Chrissy Teigen to a horror anthology show created by Steven Spielberg.

      [...] The $5.6 million for 30 seconds of Super Bowl ad time was a small price to pay for Quibi, which has secured more than $1 billion in funding from companies like Disney, WarnerMedia, and Alibaba. Its founder, Jeffrey Katzenberg, used to run Disney’s film studio in the 1980s and early 1990s. Its CEO, Meg Whitman, once served in the same position at both Hewlett Packard and eBay.

      [...] But hardly anyone knows this yet. After the Super Bowl ad aired, Twitter was filled with reactions from viewers saying they still didn’t really get what, exactly, Quibi was. “We have to build a brand—no one’s heard of Quibi—and we have to build the use case,” Whitman said at the 2020 Upfront Summit in Los Angeles last week.

      The Streaming Wars are going to show us some glorious, spectacular multi-billion-dollar failures. Which will possibly be more entertaining to watch than the content they host.

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    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:05PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:05PM (#962490)

      The class tool, by the way, proposed that a Regex parser be added in a Winamp-style music app to search for media.

      Did you ever realize your dream?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @11:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @11:22PM (#962599)

        It really whipped the llama's ass.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:10PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:10PM (#962494)

      You forgot the Fukme streaming service. Also /. is starting a goatse channel with only one title. In the end, I'm sure Amazon will own everything anyway.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:25PM (#962504)

        Pretty much, eventually anybody not owned by one of the content producing corporations or Telecoms will likely be out of business. Mostly because the regulators are packed with people that used to work in the industry and have precisely no interest in ensuring that the people have access for an affordable price.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:25AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:25AM (#962686) Journal

    "Ad-supported" is not 'free'

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:05AM (#962704)

      Shit up and eat your gruel!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:14AM (#963258)

    https://unblocked-pw.github.io// [github.io]

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