More and more I am thinking that the reason the studios are refusing to budge is because any deal other than the workers unconditional surrender would require the studios to make streaming numbers public so workers know what fair pay is, and companies have been lying about streaming numbers so much that making the real numbers public could result in lawsuits and possible criminal charges from the investors they've defrauded.
There has been an outpouring of public support for unions the past few years I don't think the execs would refuse to even make a counter offer unless there was more going on.
--tumblr user traycakes
i mean. yeah. that. seems like it's probably the case. there's plenty of history of that, considering the Facebook video pivot thing.
And they keep shuffling off content to completely ad-supported platforms like it. If you keep content with ads on a lesser-known, separate platform, you can report numbers from that one to advertisers, but still keep your prestige platform a black box.
Nobody cares about streaming numbers on The Roku Channel like they do about Netflix.
