The residuals come if “20% of the subscriber base watches something within the first three months of its release”.
As the article I linked gets into, this is more complicated because certain streamers not only keep their subscriber base private (which they can still do, but they’ll have to give writers info, probably under NDA), but several also offer their streaming services as bundles with unrelated things (Prime Video with regular Prime subscription, Apple TV+ with Apple One, etc.).
So someone could be “subscribed” to Amazon Prime Video, but because it’s bundled in with the normal “online shopping” Amazon Prime, they have inflated numbers of Prime Video subscribers because not everyone with Prime cares about the streaming part of it all.
Figuring that shit out is going to be the main issue with regard to streamers.
They are getting residuals from the US, but the problem now is defining “subscriber”.
The residuals come if “20% of the subscriber base watches something within the first three months of its release”.
As the article I linked gets into, this is more complicated because certain streamers not only keep their subscriber base private (which they can still do, but they’ll have to give writers info, probably under NDA), but several also offer their streaming services as bundles with unrelated things (Prime Video with regular Prime subscription, Apple TV+ with Apple One, etc.).
So someone could be “subscribed” to Amazon Prime Video, but because it’s bundled in with the normal “online shopping” Amazon Prime, they have inflated numbers of Prime Video subscribers because not everyone with Prime cares about the streaming part of it all.
Figuring that shit out is going to be the main issue with regard to streamers.