Definitely Maybe
Striker
Streaming has been around for the best part of a decade, first in pubs then through Kodi over the last few years. Over the last 5 years our performance on the pitch has got progressively worse yet our attendances have increased year on year. Attendances will drop this season, but they'll drop because we're shite and have been relegated, not because of streaming.
The club obviously have to tow the party line and can't be seen to support piracy, but you'd think they'd be secretly pleased that people stream our games. Quinny obviously didn't like people watching games in the pub spending £40 on beer when we're playing at home less than a mile away but the world has moved on from that, more people stream in the house than at the pub now and I don't believe there's a significant number of people out there with the money and means to go to the match but choosing not to who'd happily buy a ticket if the streams were turned off. The overwhelming majority of streamers are people who wouldn't go to the match regardless or are streaming the away games they can't get to.
On the flip side, I certainly won't be sitting with the radio listening to Barnes and Bennett if there aren't streams available, I'd most likely find something else to do (you get a better idea of what's going on following the Bet365 Rball than listening to them two. Now I'm a season ticket holder and will get to some away games anyway but there's plenty people who aren't, surely the last thing you want is for your potential customers to find something better to do at 3pm on a Saturday and risk them losing interest completely? It's surely better to keep them engaged even if you're not directly profiting from them then lose them completely.
Streaming is the future whether they like it or not and sometimes you have to accept that you'll make a loss on something in the short term but see the rewards further down the line.
The club are quite active on social media and recently advertised for another video editor. They don't make any money directly from that (but employ staff to do it), the idea is to keep the fans engaged in the hope they buy a ticket or merchandise further down the line. Same applies.
The club obviously have to tow the party line and can't be seen to support piracy, but you'd think they'd be secretly pleased that people stream our games. Quinny obviously didn't like people watching games in the pub spending £40 on beer when we're playing at home less than a mile away but the world has moved on from that, more people stream in the house than at the pub now and I don't believe there's a significant number of people out there with the money and means to go to the match but choosing not to who'd happily buy a ticket if the streams were turned off. The overwhelming majority of streamers are people who wouldn't go to the match regardless or are streaming the away games they can't get to.
On the flip side, I certainly won't be sitting with the radio listening to Barnes and Bennett if there aren't streams available, I'd most likely find something else to do (you get a better idea of what's going on following the Bet365 Rball than listening to them two. Now I'm a season ticket holder and will get to some away games anyway but there's plenty people who aren't, surely the last thing you want is for your potential customers to find something better to do at 3pm on a Saturday and risk them losing interest completely? It's surely better to keep them engaged even if you're not directly profiting from them then lose them completely.
Streaming is the future whether they like it or not and sometimes you have to accept that you'll make a loss on something in the short term but see the rewards further down the line.
The club are quite active on social media and recently advertised for another video editor. They don't make any money directly from that (but employ staff to do it), the idea is to keep the fans engaged in the hope they buy a ticket or merchandise further down the line. Same applies.
