hey it's Michael here and first up today will streaming TV look more like cable in 2023
live TV streaming services you know like YouTube TV and Hulu live they're already a whole lot
like cable I refer to them as cable 2.0 on this channel their bundles are made up well
primarily of traditional cable networks but for the most part live TV streaming services
don't have contracts or hidden fees YouTube TV highlights that right on its website a
major exception is fubotv which as you may know charges Regional Sports fees in select
cities question is will other services start to add hidden fees like this one now for the
record I'm against them but services do add these fees because it allows them to advertise
a lower base plan price so you may think the service is 70 bucks but when you get your
bill it's 80 or more I want to know what you think in the comments but I think we're getting
to a point where these premium live TV services they just can't keep racing prices year after
year if they want to keep growing their subscriber counts and why do I say that well here's just
one example I reviewed variety list of the most watched networks for 2022 and only five
of the top 50 networks increased in the ratings ESPN Paramount grit ESPN2 and oxygen that
means the other 45 out of the top 50 networks were either down or flat in the ratings by
now you probably know these premium live TV services continue to exist for three main
reasons live sports cable news and local stations number two more Sports shifting to streaming
we already got Thursday Night Football on Prime video and Friday night baseball on Apple
TV plus now YouTube TV and YouTube are getting NFL Sunday Ticket this is a premium offering
somebody to be watching to see how much it costs through YouTube TV as well as the price
through YouTube Prime Time channels expect an announcement ahead of football season number
three more ads nearly all of the paid on-demand Services have launched ad supported plants
I know some of you don't like them but these are in addition to the ad free plans so Netflix
right here that is is one of the latest and in the case in Netflix the ad load is pretty
light four to five minutes of ads per hour but I'm curious to see how quickly that changes
and not just with Netflix with other services too these ad supported plans have turned out
to be very good for business so will they eventually just increase the number of ads
number four password crackdowns in previous videos I've told you about Netflix's plan
to limit password sharing and that's expected to happen in early 2023 depending on how subscribers
react to these changes I could see more services cracking down just to make sure that multiple
households are not sharing the same account we're up to number five and let's talk about
the launch of the combined HBO Max and Discovery plus service CNBC reports it's going to launch
in the spring and it's likely to be called just Max and since the merger Warner Brothers
Discovery CEO David Zaslav he's been making an argument that these two very different
Services somehow Belong Together meanwhile other company Executives have suggested well
the they flat out said they want people to pay more for the combined service I've got
my doubts we're going to see what happens free ad supported streaming services also
made my list and that comes in at number six there's more to say about Warner Brothers
Discovery here variety is reporting that some content pooled off HBO Max is going to end
up on free ad supported services and Warner Brothers Discovery also plans to launch its
own free service my favorites in the free ad supported streaming category are Pluto
TV to be freebie and the Roku Channel all worth checking out number seven will consumers
cut back on streaming I often recommend that people stick to two or maybe three page Services
per month to control their cost but many households they've got double that number I just put
up a poll on my YouTube Community tab to ask how much you spend on streaming services per
month but in a recession I think people are likely to cut back on subscriptions streaming
or otherwise and the decisions people make about the services to keep or cancel that
could have a huge impact on determining the streaming services that survive for the long
term I want to know what other big streaming changes should I be following for 2023 let
me know Down Below in the comments and thank you for watching Michael saves