I do not remember the age of television with great tenderness. I always hated having to be in front of the television at a specific time to see what I wanted, especially since we could not afford a VCR until 2000! Today, with streaming on demand, you can watch any episode of a program when you wish, and you know which programs have lots of episodes to choose? Sitcoms!
The sitcoms were the prime listening to the era of diffusion and entertained families for years. Now, I think they have a second chance in life and could even be a key pillar supporting the streaming company as a whole.
The persistent call for sitcoms
The sitcoms are a marvel of media engineering. These are shows that are made to call on a very Large audience, offer a story of the week, everyone can go to watch, but always has long -standing history arches and can even make the narration impactful, although it is largely comical.
Wonderful countries have huddled around television to see Pivot Episodes from Sitcoms. THE CRUSH The final pulled nearly 106 million viewers. When the popular characters of Sitcom are in danger of dying, or when a major event occurs as a marriage, people care.
At the same time, these emissions are a real comforting food, and they resist repeating visualization. This is why sitcoms are among the best media to have a physical copy of. If you have a box of FriendsYou always have something that you can put by yourself, for a friend, or for anyone and it will probably go quite well!
License and cost advantages for streaming platforms
The nature of sitcoms makes them perfect for streaming catalogs, but the other factor is the cost. The sitcoms were some of the first shows to benefit from syndicationThis is where the owners of the program in question read to broadcast on other networks, generally in other regions. Syndication often leads to more popularity, which encourages the new seasons of the show.
Streaming Services Licensing Old Sitcoms is the modern equivalent of this, and honestly, probably the reason why some old sitcoms obtain renaissance seasons for years after being canceled or finished. The key advantage of the streaming service, however, is that older sitcoms are relatively cheap license and add hundreds and thousands of hours in the catalog.
Sitcoms can help subscribers retention
You remember when King of the hill Was deleted from Netflix? The service did not renew the license, and no one else picked it up, so for a good time, there was a little panic because it was a comfort show for a large part of people. Of course, you can and can always buy the DVDs online, but it is clear that most people have exceeded physical media or they would have just done this instead of moving it online.
The reason for which I lift it is that I would not be surprised if many people continued to pay their monthly subscriptions just to maintain access to their comfort emissions. This is exactly what I did when it was a question of Star Trek: The next generation Until I ponieted for the Blu-ray Tng collection, and something tells me that a lot of people do the same for Big Bang theory Or how I Met Your Mother.
If you look at the numbers, it seems that sitcoms get much more than their own weight. Anlasia by Analytics of Parrot showed that “The sitcoms represent 13.4% of the total retention of Hulu subscribers – a remarkable figure since sitcoms represent only 7.6% of the platform’s television catalog.”
Hulu is the most dramatic example, but their data shows a model similar to all levels, so sitcoms may not be the main reasons why new subscribers enter (that is to say, new original content), but they are an important reason why current subscribers remain.
Intergenerational attraction makes sitcoms to the test
What is even more interesting for me is that sitcoms can easily have a new lease on life thanks to streaming and have a call through generations. Parents can present their favorite sitcoms to children and, of course, young people can discover them without any help.
I literally see people at the beginning of the twenties walking with Friends T-shirts and I think many sitcoms will probably become more Popular at the age of streaming than ever on television.
