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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-03-12 03:52 pm

[ SECRET POST #3721 ]


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Re: Conspiracy Theories

(Anonymous) 2017-03-12 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
First of all, minor note: you don't buy shows on Hulu, you pay for a subscription. it's not important but it bugged me

Second: yeah you're probably right. Although it's not so much a conspiracy thing. It's more that you want to see if your product works first, and then figure out how to make money off of it. This is a pretty general thing in the tech industry and lots of new tech products work this way - see, for instance, Snapchat still not actually understanding how they want to make money. You really need to know that your model works for people and that you'll have a userbase before you start thinking around monetization.

It's probably a little distinct in Hulu's case, because they're trying to make money for television networks rather than venture capitalists, so the details of how they figured out monetizing were almost certainly different - plus I imagine they also genuinely wanted to see if they could survive on an ads model rather than a subscription. But on a fundamental level, yeah, that's how it works.