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Young people not watching television match - how can F1 and motorsports adapt


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#51 V8 Fireworks

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 07:32

I'd pay

 

Fair enough, but it's not reasonable to expect Average Joe to pay to watch a heavily sponsored competition !!  It's in the advertisers' interests that people can watch it for free.



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#52 chunder27

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 08:05

The Motogp online pacakage is certainly not amazing, it is adequate. Very Spanish buased and also very expensive for what it is.

You need to be a real geek fan to think it is worthwhile. Plus you have to put up with their commentary team who are a grade above godawful.

The idea they have is great, but their pricing is ridiculous, 15 quid for off season when there is nothing going on, so you can watch a load of stuff from years ago that if you were a proper fan you watched anyway!

This is the problem with modern sports, they try and cater for the tiny minority that will pay rather than entice those that might not the majority, and its all about paying before you can see anything.

Nigerian is the way forward!

#53 Jackmancer

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 08:41

Generalising here: Young people watch F1, but not via a television. Save €150 per year on digital TV, save another €150 expensive channel. Just watch it on free livestreams. That's how "we" are used to watching, with YouTube and Twitch. 



#54 jonpollak

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 10:44

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#55 pdac

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 11:15

So who do people think is going to run and participate in this new 'free' F1? The current model is there to maximize the income. Without that income there would not be F1 because they've moved the 'sport' to a multi-billion dollar business.

 

The question is not about how to get young people to watch F1, it's about how to get young people to pay through the nose to watch F1.



#56 kamikaze1

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 12:56

Haven't watched F1 on a proper "TV Channel" in years bar the odd occasion if it's pub time friendly.   After a long week of work, Saturday and Sunday morning watching from bed, sky player stream from the laptop, with the extended desktop on the AppleTV on the 40" (or whatever size it is).  Before Sky, it was live streams.  I once paid 20 euro to watch one MotoGP race.  What a waste of money that is.  I'm in Ireland, I have BT Sport on my Sky Subscription... yet I can't goddamn watch the MotoGP on the BT Sport online stream!  Ludicrous.  I'm a paying BT Sport customer, yet I have to resort to watching illegal live streams.  BTSport aren't going to get me out of bed on my day off! :D 


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#57 August

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 13:07

Maybe the young people's attention span is getting shorter. So often I find myself doing other things in internet when I was gonna watch some sports. Though it's not like the sports would have to be intense to keep focused, I probably lose the concentration more often during an F1 race than during a 24h race.

Motorsports must not change too radically, they'd lose the existing fans with no guarantee of attracting new ones. You can have more experimental new series like Formula E to attract different kinds of fans.

#58 DampMongoose

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 14:53

First thing they should do is find a cave, put Ted Kravitz in there and seal him up. Once they've done that I'll have a think of some ideas on the topic in hand...