Cara Lombardo
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51 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
Cara Lombardo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was one of the early members of Facebook, and he argues that...
Other streaming services, including the most popular ones such as Netflix and Hulu, are really missing out on the social aspect of watching TV.
He says there's a reputation of watching TV that it's something we do when we're alone and we have nothing better to do and we have no friends to hang out with.
But he says, really, it's a very social experience.
We're taking in a season finale with millions of other people.
We're watching a new documentary and then suggesting it to our friend the next time we see them.
He wants to really capture that.
So some of the features will include syncing, watching, where you can watch a show.
You can see exactly where your friend is in a show so you're sure not to spoil it if you're a little bit farther ahead.
Or you could watch a finale or an episode together from across the country.
That's the goal, to really capture that social aspect that they feel is not being utilized right now.
Well, a lot of the current streaming services, there's currently more than 200 streaming services consumers can choose from, so they're definitely trying to figure out what consumers want, and many of those services are coming from the big cable providers themselves.
But this entertainment-focused service that Philo has started is really a new thing, and it's going to be something that analysts expect other companies and other players in the industry to copy if it has any success.
Philo sees themselves as part of this new a la carte market.
We're moving based on consumer demand into a market where we get to mix and match what we're interested in.
Maybe I'd have a Netflix account going all the time and then I'd add in some sports coverage or a product like Philo for the shows that really matter to me personally.
So Philo thinks they're at the front end of this and that they're really going to be pushing change and forcing cable providers to pick apart some of the channels that they've always packaged together.
Yeah, Philo started as a streaming service for college students, serving hundreds of thousands of college students and students.
They say that the data from those college students' TV viewing habits was part of what convinced them that this type of product would be successful.
They said the data show that non-sports programming is popular, that people have a more varied palate in terms of taste when it comes to TV than you might think, and they feel confident that this product is going to resonate with a lot of people.
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