27-05-2022, 12:24 PM
(27-05-2022, 12:15 PM)AndrewP Wrote: I was talking to Mr AndrewP about this yesterday and he said that whilst he understands why they want to shift everything on iPlayer hardly any of it's good. "Who's interested in Meet The Khans?"
He also said he felt the UI isn't as interesting or engaging as that of Netflix or Disney+
I wonder what everyone else's point of view is, perhaps the corporation should seek to improve its on-line offerings first before bludgeoning their traditional broadcast outlets.
Well to be honest, the iPlayer has attempted to coattail on the success of Netflix (in fact, in one of the BBC rebrand demos, we could see an interface not too dissimilar to the burning red streaming bridge) but I don't think they're doing enough to really gage with the audience.
One thing I've not seen is research groups who are actually reviewing the programming that BBC is producing for the service (that includes BBC Three content as well) and seeing what's really viable for them. Tell them to use nothing but iPlayer for their entertainment for a week and get results down for what audiences want out of their public service broadcaster. Really, the iPlayer is about as good as throwing darts (programme ideas) onto a wall (iPlayer) without really any prior review on what really caters to their demo, which should be a tech-savvy audience. All else fails, they lose that audience to streaming giants.
I'm not saying there ISN'T an audience for some programmes, but for the programmes that are advertised, surely there should be an algorithm telling them what they should watch? Not saying it's ethical, if say, the BBC promotes shows higher than others, but what is the BBC producing that audiences can't find better on Disney+? Amazon? etc.