Understanding carriage

https://seths.blog/2025/12/understanding-carriage/

by herbertl • 7 months ago

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cyberax• 7 months ago

It's fun to note that Netflix started producing its own content as a hedge if Hollywood studios start withdrawing their content.

Haha.

takira• 7 months ago

I'm excited to see some spin on this get incorporated into the next season of The Studio.

wagwang• 7 months ago

Bruh what

The solution, one that Netflix would probably benefit from, is to offer to adopt more of a YouTube approach to carriage–allow anyone who produces video content to show it on Netflix. Pay them based on views.

The relationship is inverted; netflix pays IP owners a fortune to get the right to show stuff.

anon7000• 7 months ago

The core probe is exclusivity agreements. Honestly think they should be illegal. Disney should not be allowed to choose who has access to view the content they’re releasing to the public.

otterley5• 7 months ago

The ability to exclude others is the essence of property rights. Why should Disney have different rights than everyone else?

listenfaster• 7 months ago

Sorry in advance for a short rant: This might be to be the most ‘no sh!t Sherlock’ obvious thing I’ve seen Seth write, and there is stiff competition in other posts of his. Am I the only one who sees civilization in decline reading something so obvious? ;) basically: Art (all culture?) traditionally disseminates at the whim of those controlling distribution channels. Always has been the case, always will be. You can choose a partner to disseminate or DIY, which the internet made way easier. Of course. It doesn’t need this new name “carriage”.

wbobeirne• 7 months ago

Carriage is not a new name, the author plainly states that it's an existing industry term. And I think the closing paragraph where the author posits that Netflix could switch to an open marketplace model is a novel suggestion, if highly unlikely. Not sure where all this negativity comes from.

zkmon2• 7 months ago

A simpler word could have been "broker". A broker-less market is feasible as long as the producer and consumer don't need a platform or middleman to conduct their transaction. A farmer's market is an example, where buyers go to a farm and buy directly from the farmer. But then people wanted to consume stuff that is not produced locally. The supply chain is born.

Solution? remove the supply chain and consume local.

IAmBroom2• 7 months ago

We tried that. Northern people sometimes starve in the winter, and people in arid locations starve during droughts.

Then the Babylonians invented supply chains.

zkmon2• 7 months ago

Bad Babylonians. They could have moved to greener pastures.

Understanding carriage

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