{"id":26527,"date":"2014-09-02T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=26527"},"modified":"2014-09-02T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T07:55:10","slug":"canal-twitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/09\/canal-twitch\/","title":{"rendered":"French TV channel in hot water with gamers for Twitch teardown piece"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French TV Channel Canal+ (a premium channel with a model similar to\u00a0HBO) is in hot water with\u00a0the gaming community after one of its shows-\u00a0Le Grand Journal<\/em>\u00a0– ran a piece on Twitch, the\u00a0live streaming video platform which\u00a0is popular among hardcore video gamers.<\/p>\n

The piece (available here on YouTube<\/a>), in just two minutes,\u00a0refers to Twitch\u00a0as the “latest Internet addiction,” describing users as “watching videos of people playing video games”, following up with “they must really have nothing better to do.” The piece is largely satirical, with the presenters likely assuming that this audience is niche enough to poke fun at.<\/p>\n

A petition<\/a> requesting that the show apologize for its comments has since received over 75,000 signatures.<\/h4>\n

The\u00a0situation itself almost perfectly summarizes\u00a0TV’s relationship to the Internet. For example, the piece continues to tease the nearly 5 Million users who receive millions in donation per year, like Pewdiepie<\/a>, subsequently noting that the platform has been bought by Amazon (an “evil Silicon Valley giant” according to the show’s presenter) for $970 Million.<\/p>\n

Twitch’s\u00a0acquisition price tag is about the same as the valuation not of\u00a0Le Grand Journal<\/em>, but of Canal+ as a whole, which has a market cap of \u20ac761 Million according to FT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ‘latest addiction’ which the TV show plays off as having a niche audience has\u00a0created an actual\u00a0TV channel (real-time video content) where they don’t have to pay the presenters – instead, users themselves pay (and they do pay), and Twitch can add advertisements on top of the\u00a0service. Next to Canal+’ roughly 12 million premium users, Twitch totes 5 Million free users, whose ‘addiction’ translates into them watching\u00a0more than the average TV viewer & generating enough value that Google & Amazon fought to acquire them.<\/p>\n

TV as a whole no longer makes sense in\u00a0the age of Internet<\/h4>\n

The content is premium – and there is some AMAZING content – but that content could be viewed on Netflix or HBO Go or OCS (Orange Content Services) in France (or on Netflix in France, as it ramps up to launch this month).<\/p>\n

One of my favorite quotes\u00a0from the clip was a reaction from the older presenter, responding to the phrase “this is the\u00a0world we live in in 2014.” His reaction was “I don’t want this world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French TV Channel Canal+ (a premium channel with a model similar to\u00a0HBO) is in hot water with\u00a0the gaming community after one of its shows-\u00a0Le Grand Journal\u00a0– ran a piece on Twitch, the\u00a0live streaming video platform which\u00a0is popular among hardcore video gamers. The piece (available here on YouTube), in just two minutes,\u00a0refers to Twitch\u00a0as the “latest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":26530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}