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clrmoney
5/12/2016 1:14:08 PM
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BT to Youtube
Everybody want to be apart of youtube and youtube is a billion dollar media business and so that probably would be a good look for BT.
dcawrey
5/12/2016 1:43:20 PM
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Re: BT to Youtube
I wish here in the US we were able to get free sports packages just for subscribing to broadband. Instead, sports channels are considered the premium offers by cable providers. They'd never sign on to offering free sports. Ever.
mpouraryan
5/12/2016 7:52:50 PM
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Re: BT to Youtube
A Telecom with a new media player is part of a trend as epitomized by what Twitter is trying to do. What will be interesting to see is what Amazon does with what I view as the potential YouTube Killer--look at the built in base they already have with Prime as they are already going after Netflix too.
Interesting times...isn't it?
JohnBarnes
5/13/2016 7:27:31 AM
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Re: BT to Youtube
DCawrey,
Americans really have only their own tastes to blame. Serving the US the sports it likes is an almost separate operation from serving the rest of the world.
https://t.co/j58vmSG3MG
So there's very little over-the-border competition to force more open access to popular sports within the US; nobody else (except the Canadians and a little bit of Latin America and the Caribbean) wants to watch our Big Four popular sports, but we do, and a lot. If there's ten lemonade stands on the block and one guava juice stand and you absolutely won't drink anything but guava juice, that guava stand owner is going to get rich, and you're never going to see a deal on guava.
afwriter
5/13/2016 4:07:46 PM
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Re: BT to Youtube
@JohnBanres I love the analogy!
Where I live in Minnesota it looks as though they may be opening another Guava stand as Soccer - I know, I know, futbol, and lacrosse are becoming increasingly popular. I am not sure how long it would be before they could actually influence broadcasting, but I could see it happening eventually.
vnewman
5/14/2016 9:10:17 PM
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Re: BT to Youtube
Well this is certainly good news for those poor blokes who aren't able to duck out of work to watch the final at the pub!
JohnBarnes
5/15/2016 2:15:40 PM
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Re: BT to Youtube
@afwriter,
There's a longstanding notion that soccer is going to catch on in the US eventually because so many kids play it in youth leagues, so eventually you'll have a big enough audience that understands it. The trouble with this hypothesis, I think, is that you have to understand soccer to watch it more than you have to understand it to play it (which is why it's so often a little-kid sport here). Bicycle racing and most of the combat sports (boxing/karate/judo/MMA/real wrestling) have a similar problem: they don't intrinsically train young participants to become middle-aged fans. (I'm not sure hockey or basketball do either but they're already established).
What may really make a difference is the proliferation of "how to watch" videos on YouTube. Thanks to those I can almost believe that cricket is not an elaborate form of performance art intended as a practical joke on the viewer, and I'm at least aware that I could probably learn to watch it (though I'm not terribly motivated to).
Ariella
5/16/2016 8:55:40 AM
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Re: BT to Youtube
@JohnBarnes Very interesting. I suppose if I watch enough of those, perhaps I'd become a sports fan of at least one sport. Isn't it also possible that just a limited number of sports can be big in a particular place? So soccer is big outside the US and cricket is big in the countries influneced by the UK, but neither of them follow baseball.
JohnBarnes
5/16/2016 2:40:33 PM
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Re: BT to Youtube
@ariella,
Or it may be that there are big advantages to following a sport that many other people do (more people to talk with!) so you get about one sport per experience the public wants. It's long been noted that soccer and basketball both appeal to fans who like constant fluid motion, and that baseball and cricket fans both love statistics and both like to watch a game in which the purpose of each subsequent play changes all the time.
dlr5288
5/22/2016 5:58:02 PM
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Let's see
I can see why BT decided to use YouTube. YouTube is widely known and accessible to pretty much everyone. It'll be interesting to see however is this pans out well for BT.
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