(03-02-2018 07:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 10:21 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 07:47 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 07:31 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 04:50 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  If you want to grow your brand, I'd argue it's better to have more games on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU and not places like ESPN3, beIN, Facebook Live, and stations that most cable packages don't have like CBS Sports.

The main downside I see to this TV deal is having to pay for the content you used to be able to get on ESPN3 for free, but it's not like ESPN3 is only dumping Sun Belt content, and it's only $20 to get every football game for a season and all of the other content ESPN will put on Plus.

At its height ESPN subscriber base was just over 100 million. Obviously only a fraction of those truly had their cable subscriptions because of sports but the fact remains. Since hitting their peak a few years ago ESPN has been hemorrhaging subscribers. Will they all return to streaming? We don't know. Sports fandom isn't what it used to be.

Facebook, on the other hand, has over a billion daily users. So, by every measurement Facebook could put ESPN out of business if they really wanted to. The point is the potential to grow is higher with Facebook than it is ESPN long term. The problem is all this stuff is in its infancy. There's a long way to go before we know if this is viable or not but I like the potential. And I like not being beholden to have pay ESPN twice for content I want to see.

100% of those ESPN subscribers were paying a cable or satellite bill of which about $7 each month was going to ESPN.
The billion Facebook users pay nothing except giving up personal data.

Facebook makes less than 20 cents per user per month and about 50 cents per user per month in the US.

Facebook just to match ESPN would have to give up about 2/3rds of its profits to acquire content.


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And Facebook is going to become the social media platform of old and uncool people sooner rather than later.

lol...its already there. My sons say its for old people.