{"id":11324,"date":"2025-01-24T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/schaeffersghost\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:32:21","slug":"the-future-of-media-2-boutique-streaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/schaeffersghost\/2025\/01\/the-future-of-media-2-boutique-streaming-services\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Media 2: Boutique Streaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As we continue to think about what the future holds for media<\/a>, I think it\u2019s worth asking what streaming is going to look like. (We\u2019ll get to non-streaming as well; did you remember that theaters still exist\u2013as does broadcast television?)<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in the middle of a streaming war right now that nobody seems able to win\u2013though Netflix is clearly ahead of the rest<\/a>. Still, we all know that Hulu, Prime, Peacock, HBO, and Paramount+ are options (among many others). So what does the future hold in the midst of all this noise?<\/p>\n

My prediction: boutique streaming services. By that, I mean a streaming service that manages to offer it\u2019s subscribers an a la carte menu of shows from all the other services. The next step of streaming is the service that can get us Game of Thrones<\/em>,\u00a0Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>,\u00a0Reacher<\/em>,\u00a0Bridgerton<\/em>,\u00a0The Great British Bake-Off<\/em>,\u00a0Clarkson\u2019s Farm<\/em>, and whatever else your fancy takes you, all with a single subscription.<\/p>\n

Now, there are two hurdles here that have to be jumped before this can happen: the technological hurdle (which device\/website\/app will do this?) and the legal\/financial hurdle (how to do this within existing copyright laws AND in a way that turns a profit for everyone involved?). I am fairly confident that American ingenuity will find a way to crack this problem. We are\u00a0excellent\u00a0<\/em>at bulldozing obstacles to our entertainment.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what this service will look like\u2013this is just a prediction that it will happen, and that it will happen soon. The easiest way of course would be for one of these to buy up all the others, though at that point we might run into antitrust issues. (You never know what might trigger the Feds on these kinds of things.)<\/p>\n

Still, this is the next logical step in a fragmented entertainment culture. I\u2019m not much of a gambler, but this really feels like a fairly solid bet for the very near future.<\/p>\n

Dr. Coyle Neal is co-host of the\u00a0City of Man Podcast<\/a>\u00a0an Amazon Associate (which is linked in this blog), and an Associate Profess<\/em>or of Political Science at\u00a0Southwest Baptist University<\/a>\u00a0in Bolivar, MO<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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