Ryan Bridge: New Zealand's fight against the big tech companies

By the end of those 8 shortened two-minute rounds in the ring with Mike Tyson, I just felt bad for the 58 year old. 

What on earth was he doing there in the first place. 

Sure, he wants a chance to get back in the right and have a crack at 27-year-old YouTube kid. 

But the real motivation must have surely been US $20-million. 

That's the amount he was reportedly paid by Netflix. 

Jake Paul reportedly got $40-million. 

Gate ticket sales at AT&T Stadium brought in close to US $18-million and 70,000 fans. 

And Netflix? Well they won the fight with 65-million viewers at peak. 

It's part of a new strategy to host live sport events lure subscribers - including  those paying less but getting fed ads on the platform. 

That ad-supported platform now accounts for 50% of its new sign ups. It's grown to 70-million new users in just two years. 

These big tech Silicon Valley giant media companies like YouTube and Chinese Tiktok and every other app under the sun that didn't start here in New Zealand are going from strength to strength. 

They're the ones who have our attention. 

According to online sources, the top 3 streaming sources here are Netflix with 1 million, Disney + with 600k and Amazon with 500+. 

And yet here we are in NZ and Australia trying to force them into news content deals with us, we're battling with taxpayers cash to reinvigorate flailing state media companies to compete with these guys in a doomed-to-fail battle. 

We're like the 58-year-old Mike Tyson, who apparently nearly died before entering the ring. 

They're their annoying 27-year-new-to-boxing but bringing in the eyeballs Jake Paul. 

Are we going to beat that little twat in the ring? No. 

Continuing to fight him could kill us off. 

We've got to somehow partner with them, rearrange ourselves and get our content on their platforms where it'll actually be seen. 

Or we can stay in ring getting beaten and bloodied then eventually KO'd. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're on News Talk CB. It is twenty seven minutes
after five. I felt bad watching those eight rounds in
the ring with Mike Tyson de Duw. I felt bad
for him, the fifty eight year old. What on earth
was he doing in there? Twenty million US dollars from
Netflix Apparently that's what they paid him. That's what he
was doing there. His net worths about ten million. He
went bankrupt a few years ago. Of course we went
to prison. Was worth three hundred million. Anyway, he needed money,

(00:23):
poor old Mike Tyson. And Netflix paid the other guy,
Jake Paul forty million dollars. Gate ticket sales. Gate ticket
sales are from AT and T Stadium brought in close
to US eighteen million dollars and seventy thousand fans. And
Netflix will they won the fight with sixty five million

(00:45):
viewers at peak. It's part of a new strategy that
they've got to get live sport events to their subscribers,
including those that are paying less but getting fed ads
on the platform. This is their clever strategy. So their
ad supported flip platform now accounts for fifty percent of
their new sign ups. It's grown to seventy million new
US in newss in just two years. It's credible. These

(01:07):
big tech bro Silicon Valley giant media companies, you know,
YouTube's all of those types. They're just going from strength
to strength, aren't they. And they're the ones that have
our attention. There are one, two, and three most streamed
in New Zealand and yet we here in New Zealand
and Australia are trying to force them into news content
deals with us. We're battling with taxpayers cash to reinvigorate

(01:29):
failing state media companies to compete with these guys and
are doomed to fail battle. We're like the fifty eight
year old Mike Tyson who apparently nearly died before entering
the ring. They are the annoying twenty seven year old
new to boxing but bringing in the eyeballs Jake Paul,
these big tech companies. So what do we need to do?
Keep fighting, get more bloodied, get more bruised, or create

(01:52):
partnerships and try and get our content to their eyeballs.
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