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It’s noticeable when you look at the price of the subscription. That’s almost $300 million.
That loss affects their stock price, their future outlook, what things they choose to fund, and how much they spend on advertising and trying to recover from this PR disaster.
My wage doesn't have a cost of goods sold line item. If I take in $5b and make $5.5b in revenue, $300m is > 1/2 of my net profit
A previously-posted Gizmodo article said
Kabas reports that 1.7 million was 436% above a subscriber loss that’s typical for the same period
Which I thought was very useful.
Don't roll over for the Orange Turd or you will pay the price.
Go woke or go broke 💪
Liberals make up more of the consumer class than conservatives. That highly marketable strata of people that have disposable income tend to be affluent, college educated liberals. Its why they keep winning the culture war and it drives conservatives insane.
Yes, and most of that consumer base needs to stop tolerating quite a bit of reactionary bullshit (yes, American "conservatives" aren't conservative, they don't keep status quo, they actively destroy it for regression, they are reactionary).
the problem is these corps/media is controlled mostly by conservative ceos, which will lick TRUMPs boot anytime, they are fickle and untrustworthy, but the gop is the most consistent in not interfering with "unethical business pratices", plus they also use these media/ to issue propaganda in many forms, like you said to institute culture wars.
Corporations don't have stable political identities.
They'll promote trans people if it makes them money.
And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.
And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.
Nice. None of those “go woke go broke” boycotts ever actually materialize into meaningful business pressure.
Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.
Cracker Barrel is so far in the red that the logo redesign was a hail mary move. They couldn't afford to lose the tiny number of people who still frequent their trash diners.
Streaming services are very sensitive to the ups and downs of anything that's a standard deviation of from normal. They're too new to have 10+ years of data to fall back on, so the same overreactions that canceled Kimmel also uncanceled him because of panicky reactions to repercussions.
And they sold the list of people who cancelled to the US government!
Wooooah, there, buckaroo. Gonna need a citation for that.
it's a joke
The fact that you need a /s makes me very sad.
tbh, I expect a lot of subscribers to resub sooner than later. Sadly
I think this is how boycotts are supposed to be. Protest and return if it's successful.
If companies know they won't ever recover from the mistake, why walk it back?
This just shows that the whole "muh, it is the corporations fault for the climate emergency, there is nothing I can do about it!" is a load of BS. You can vote with your wallet. Become anti-consumption.
That's an incredibly naive and misinformed opinion you've got there. Most of the companies polluting are not businesses that members of the public buy services from. The vast majority of the largest polluters are business to business providers, Joe public can't do anything about that.
Just look up Monsanto, if we took them out the total pollution worldwide would probably drop by about 50% but they sell to farmers, so you might say well don't buy from farmers that buy from Monsanto but the problem is all farmers buy from Monsanto, so there isn't another option.
It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.
It hurt itself in its confusion doing exactly as it was told by the orange diaper man
Vance was recently on tv saying carr isn't responsible because "look, Jimmy is still on tv, so what'd Carr do wrong?", trying to sweep it under the rug.
Fuck Disney, I even got my sister to change their vacation plans over it
Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I'm sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.
We're not. We were halfway out the door already with the lack of good content and increasing prices. This just gave us a needed push to actually cancel. We won't resubscribe.
And then they raised the price, so anyone who goes back sheet this is punished for leaving in the first place. Screw Disney.
I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?
This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?
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