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		majormajor on June 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix... You couldn't get away with charging a subscription fee there, and I don't think you're significantly eating into the 20+min streaming market. You could possibly pull off more premium ad rates, though... but you could really only do this from inside Google.

chillfox on June 30, 2020 [–]

Charging a subscription for curated YouTube content is literally the business that Nebula [1] and Floatplane [2] is in. It's just not a $1.75B business or anything close to it.

[1] https://watchnebula.com/ [2] https://www.floatplane.com/

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