IMO the subscription model only properly works for music and TV/movies because they are ubiquitous.
Sports are different, and especially as Marklar alluded to,
live sports.
In specific markets for specific sports, at a lower level, it would probably work. For example, even Gaelic Football has a streaming service
Unless I'm badly mistaken, outside of Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Spotify stuff, what else has reached critical mass?
Sometimes I think the massively-expensive, global sports would struggle because you need the mother of all marketing campaigns to get enough people onboard. I remember Sean Bratches speaking about F1TV when it launched, but I can't recall the global audience figure they were targetting.
Or does critical mass not matter? I don't know.
F1's problem is that it
is massively expensive to run, but slowly (quickly?) losing it's "global" status in terms of viewership. Which isn't sustainable.
Edited by TomNokoe, 24 June 2020 - 18:58.