WEBVTT 00:00:00.657 --> 00:00:04.237 Welcome to Additional Conversations on DTNS with Charlotte Henry. 00:00:04.457 --> 00:00:07.177 So Charlotte, I think this story might be right up your wheelhouse. 00:00:07.277 --> 00:00:12.017 Verizon is launching a Peacock Premium and Netflix Premium bundle ahead of the 00:00:12.017 --> 00:00:14.397 2024 Paris Olympics, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 00:00:14.957 --> 00:00:19.517 Customers who sign up for the $80 Peacock Premium plan for a year will get one 00:00:19.517 --> 00:00:23.577 year of Netflix Premium valued at $275 thrown in for free. 00:00:24.217 --> 00:00:29.977 The bundle is available today and is going to stream all of NBC's Olympic coverage and live programming. 00:00:30.877 --> 00:00:34.557 Now, Charlotte, that's a lot of programming. What are people's options for watching 00:00:34.557 --> 00:00:36.577 the Olympics on streaming services? 00:00:36.797 --> 00:00:39.417 And does this bundle feel like a good deal to you? 00:00:40.217 --> 00:00:43.417 Well, I mean, it's taking a lot of money out of your net. 00:00:43.517 --> 00:00:46.597 I mean, it's essentially subsidizing Netflix premium if you're in the US. 00:00:46.657 --> 00:00:48.597 So that's a pretty nice way to get it. 00:00:48.677 --> 00:00:53.977 I mean, the way the Olympics is going to be shown completely varies where you are around the world. 00:00:54.037 --> 00:00:58.177 Here in the UK, it's going to be on the BBC because it sort of has to be, 00:00:58.257 --> 00:01:04.057 and therefore the BBC iPlayer, plus Eurosport will be showing it, which is Discovery+. 00:01:04.617 --> 00:01:08.597 So there's a lot going on there. This bundle is kind of, I think, 00:01:08.597 --> 00:01:10.937 to be indicative of the way things are going to have to go. 00:01:11.097 --> 00:01:14.817 How many times have we had the conversation about how many services do I want 00:01:14.817 --> 00:01:16.177 to subscribe to? It's too many. 00:01:16.377 --> 00:01:18.097 I don't need all of these, blah, 00:01:18.197 --> 00:01:20.797 blah, blah, blah, blah. We've had this conversation so many times, right? 00:01:22.077 --> 00:01:24.597 And I think re-bundling, we're going 00:01:24.597 --> 00:01:28.317 to see a lot more of it through the end of 2024 going 00:01:28.317 --> 00:01:31.877 into 2025 obviously the 00:01:31.877 --> 00:01:34.657 olympics specifically let's just focus on that for a 00:01:34.657 --> 00:01:40.177 minute is a very big deal for peacock right it's really they bought it they 00:01:40.177 --> 00:01:44.917 bought the right really is a way to draw people into peacock which as you guys 00:01:44.917 --> 00:01:49.097 know the numbers were okay but they're not earth shattering and they're trying 00:01:49.097 --> 00:01:52.597 to have a really big year thanks to the olympics so obviously 00:01:52.777 --> 00:01:55.197 anything that gets people signed up to the service, 00:01:56.057 --> 00:01:58.237 which remember, there's plenty of tiers of that that have ads, 00:01:59.077 --> 00:02:01.537 is obviously a really big deal for Peacock. 00:02:01.677 --> 00:02:03.517 You know, they just want the numbers, right? 00:02:03.737 --> 00:02:11.837 We saw, did we discuss this Sarah, we saw the NFL game that was on Peacock did really well, didn't it? 00:02:11.957 --> 00:02:19.337 Yes. And so I think they're trying to use the Olympics in the same way. 00:02:20.645 --> 00:02:24.125 Yeah so here's my question charlotte uh netflix is 00:02:24.125 --> 00:02:27.305 still the big dog pretty much everywhere in the world and it's 275 00:02:27.305 --> 00:02:30.205 a year so if you can pick up if you 00:02:30.205 --> 00:02:33.065 want to watch the olympics and you can say i'm just going to pay 80 to get peacock 00:02:33.065 --> 00:02:38.505 but i get a whole year of netflix is that a good deal i mean it sounds pretty 00:02:38.505 --> 00:02:44.085 good to me you're not up for it i've got about i've got both you know i've got 00:02:44.085 --> 00:02:48.325 them both uh so yeah no i know but you're like me i feel like this is a really good deal. 00:02:48.845 --> 00:02:52.845 Now, if you're like, I don't care about Netflix, it just doesn't matter to me, 00:02:53.005 --> 00:02:58.405 then it's almost like the Amazon Prime conversation we had in GDI the other 00:02:58.405 --> 00:03:00.585 day, where it's like, if you don't want the vacuum cleaner, 00:03:00.745 --> 00:03:04.005 then don't buy it on sale because you don't want it anyway, kind of thing. 00:03:04.205 --> 00:03:10.925 But if you, for whatever reason, don't have Netflix premium, it's a lot of free money. 00:03:11.025 --> 00:03:17.665 I wonder, I have to assume that both companies are hoping that it just makes 00:03:17.665 --> 00:03:22.625 someone fall in love with Netflix and just never want to cancel that service. 00:03:22.765 --> 00:03:24.845 So once the year is over, they continue to pay. 00:03:25.305 --> 00:03:29.765 Well, it is intriguing that Netflix is happy to be part of this, though, isn't it? 00:03:29.825 --> 00:03:33.625 We kind of always think that Netflix doesn't have to do anything to get consumers. 00:03:33.625 --> 00:03:35.925 It's the streaming service everyone always has. 00:03:36.765 --> 00:03:40.865 And yet someone at Netflix was happy to be part of this bundle as well. 00:03:40.925 --> 00:03:46.565 I find that kind of fascinating. Yeah, you just I would assume that if they're 00:03:46.565 --> 00:03:49.245 probably going for the person who's like, I don't care about Netflix. 00:03:49.705 --> 00:03:51.945 And so it's like, well, but you get it for free. 00:03:52.925 --> 00:03:55.525 You know, and and that person saying, Well, I care about the Olympics. 00:03:55.565 --> 00:03:58.665 So sure, I'll take the free Netflix and then decides, you know what, 00:03:58.685 --> 00:04:00.945 I really do like it. And I was never gonna pay for it. 00:04:01.025 --> 00:04:05.625 But you've you've convinced me. I think you're right on that because Netflix 00:04:05.625 --> 00:04:07.725 is kind of almost a critical mass. 00:04:07.885 --> 00:04:12.585 I mean, most people who are going to have Netflix probably have Netflix because they wanted it. 00:04:12.745 --> 00:04:15.945 Now they're into the realm of, well, we've got to get them to want something 00:04:15.945 --> 00:04:21.165 else and just get Netflix and maybe they will like it. So I kind of think that 00:04:21.165 --> 00:04:25.025 that may be what's happening here, because these are probably customers that 00:04:25.025 --> 00:04:26.825 Netflix is not in fear of. 00:04:27.065 --> 00:04:29.665 Well, if we wouldn't have done this bundle and they would have just signed up 00:04:29.665 --> 00:04:32.625 on their own. I think that that's not really the case for them at this point. 00:04:33.265 --> 00:04:38.105 I also wonder, you know, I obviously the Olympics haven't started yet. 00:04:38.185 --> 00:04:44.625 I wonder how the offering is going to be for the end user. Let's say I say, 00:04:44.705 --> 00:04:45.765 all right, I got 80 bucks. 00:04:45.945 --> 00:04:48.365 I'm going to go Peacock Premium. I want to watch the Olympics, 00:04:48.525 --> 00:04:53.005 which I do. so I probably will take advantage of this. I remember it was. 00:04:54.971 --> 00:05:00.771 2010, I guess the London Olympics, or maybe it was 2012 was the London Olympics. 00:05:00.791 --> 00:05:02.691 So maybe 2010 was Vancouver. 00:05:03.371 --> 00:05:06.371 One was Vancouver would have been winter. 00:05:06.751 --> 00:05:12.751 No, so it would have been 2012. So the London Olympics, I in the morning, 00:05:12.871 --> 00:05:16.271 just, you know, my regular routine, I used to go to my neighborhood gym, 00:05:16.351 --> 00:05:17.191 and I would bring my iPad. 00:05:17.691 --> 00:05:23.871 And the iPad for I don't remember paying anything for 00:05:23.991 --> 00:05:29.251 the streaming stuff, but it was some sort of NBC plus type thing where you would 00:05:29.251 --> 00:05:33.731 get, you wouldn't get like commentary or any like real packages. 00:05:33.891 --> 00:05:37.571 You would just get like raw feeds of certain sports. 00:05:37.951 --> 00:05:42.991 And even like, you know, the gymnastics team warming up type stuff. 00:05:43.191 --> 00:05:46.171 It was very raw, but very, I was like, this is great. 00:05:46.811 --> 00:05:49.591 But it was also kind of a mess. I'm going to 00:05:49.591 --> 00:05:52.531 assume that uh they have a bigger plan in 00:05:52.531 --> 00:05:55.311 place for what you're actually going to get you know so that 00:05:55.311 --> 00:05:58.351 people don't complain about paying those eighty dollars oh i 00:05:58.351 --> 00:06:01.271 think peacock's gone really big on this and is really 00:06:01.271 --> 00:06:04.051 really determined to make this like a real 00:06:04.051 --> 00:06:06.911 big introduction for a lot of people 00:06:06.911 --> 00:06:09.691 to peacock i have to say the more i read about this 00:06:09.691 --> 00:06:12.951 bundle i think it's a phenomenal bundle eighty dollars for 00:06:12.951 --> 00:06:16.591 a year of peacock and netflix like 00:06:16.591 --> 00:06:19.511 peacock as well also if you're into sports has 00:06:19.511 --> 00:06:22.651 the premier league has premier league football on it almost every 00:06:22.651 --> 00:06:26.031 game of that i it's a hell of a deal yeah it 00:06:26.031 --> 00:06:29.191 really is so here's another question do you think that 00:06:29.191 --> 00:06:31.931 that bundles are just kind of like the 00:06:31.931 --> 00:06:34.611 future of where streaming is going because it seems like for the 00:06:34.611 --> 00:06:38.351 last you know six eight ten months all we've been hearing about are all these 00:06:38.351 --> 00:06:42.111 different services that are bundling with each other i know me i am a serial 00:06:42.111 --> 00:06:45.431 churner i will quit a service in a heartbeat if there's nothing that i'm watching 00:06:45.431 --> 00:06:49.371 on it in real time but if it's bundled with a bunch of other stuff it makes 00:06:49.371 --> 00:06:53.231 it a little bit more difficult yeah I really feel that the, 00:06:53.691 --> 00:06:56.831 great rebuttaling is underway I think that's definitely happening 00:06:56.831 --> 00:07:03.011 well this is a bundle that that you might you might like or might not like if 00:07:03.011 --> 00:07:08.391 you have thoughts about you think this is a good idea or there's something sinister 00:07:08.391 --> 00:07:13.931 going on send us an email feedback at daily tech news show dot-com.