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kotomikun
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Wow, a weird gimmicky streaming service with an inscrutable name and no clear niche, with ludicrous amounts of money invested but not much promotion to speak of, released during a time where everyone is too stressed out over real-world chaos to try new things... ended up failing? Who could have seen that coming?
"Some More News" did a video dissecting Quibi a while back, which I guess has aged rather well, now. |
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Megiddo
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It definitely had promotion. I saw TV and internet ads all the time for Quibi. Granted it was the same Jack Bauer/Ryan/old white guy Bruckheimer-esque show that I had zero interest in, but I saw the Quibi name a lot, and every time I just thought to myself how dumb of a name it is.
Honestly, I thought it was Chinese-backed with how much content it was developing. Surprising to hear it wasn't. |
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cloud8100
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Honestly, this is my first time hearing about it. Never knew it was a thing until now.
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DragenGD
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I'd heard about it, just like tons of others that have popped up this year, but I never gave it a look. Between my roommate and myself, we already have CR, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and ESPN+, along with a limited version of cable via Spectrum, and I prefer longer shows anyway, so the "quick bite" offerings didn't sound appealing.
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SaitoHajime101
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I don't know about anybody else, but I'm pretty burned out on streaming services. There's too many offers, with how much I could potentially pay in streaming services monthly, I might as well get cable TV again. Sure with Streaming, I can sub and cancel continuously, but I don't want to sit here and have to micro-manage my streaming services every month just to see all the shows I want.
So point, Quibi would've been just another service in the pool that I wouldn't give any attention to. Sorry it didn't work out for the founder, CEO and investors. |
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Blood-
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I thought this was a stupid idea the second I heard about it which was well before it launched. I just wiahed it had launched pre-covid-19 just so that its principals would have had to acknowledge it was something that cound never have worked regardless of external conditions.
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TsukasaElkKite
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Wow, that was really fast.
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Chrizy
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It had the cool new gimmicks called "Turnover" display. The rest felt meh since the reveal, especially the 10m bites of 2h movies.
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El Hermano
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I've never heard of this service, but I have always wondered what happens to a streaming service's original content when it goes under. Does it just disappear into the void and become lost media outside people who ripped/pirated it?
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Blood-
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Quibi could try to sell its content to other providers. Also, I think they had a ridiculously short exclusive period... I think the rights revert back to the creators in 2 years and then they can try to do something with it. |
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KyokoBestMeguca
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The only point of Quibi was to get around SAG pay rates by producing movies in a way they legally didn't have to call them that. It was never more than a cynical cash grab and I'm glad it failed so completely.
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Never_Know_Best
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Man, I’m sure it was no good, but I still wanted to see what that Tomie show would’ve been like.
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jdnation
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Was reading a bit about it. Apparently they had the bright idea to keep this as a mobile-only service without TV streaming aimed at people commuting?
Well guess what people weren't doing? This is what bad ideas surrounded by a staff of hired yes-men gets you. |
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The Not so Chosen One
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With Quibi's production model??? it would've been awful. I'd rather have a long-form show that whatever bullcrap Quibi was gonna come up with. The actress for Tomie was a pretty good choice, so I hope the show keeps going in other platform, if only for curiosity's sake. |
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yuna49
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They imagined an audience of commuters looking at their phones. Wonder where they got that idea from?
Big names behind this failure, too, like Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. |
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