WWE Network is failing big time

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Another thing to bring is just to look at the Network subscribers from Wrestlemania this year. From the outside looking in I wouldn't be happy with Battleground's being the 3rd or 4th cold PPV in a row. They still need to do a better job building excitement for these shows.

What you mean Kane main eventing a bunch of PPVs in 2014 isn't excitement enough for ya??

 

[leojay]

The rest could be exclusive to the Network because nobody cares about the rest of the shit PPVs anyhow.

That's kind of the reason why they did include all the PPV's though, because nobody does care about the rest of the PPV's. Without them, would they really have any selling point? I don't see classic PPV's or their "ground breaking" exclusive original programming as selling points, to be honest.

But yeah, they put all their eggs in one basket and it was stupid.

 

[leojay]

Another thing to bring is just to look at the Network subscribers from Wrestlemania this year. From the outside looking in I wouldn't be happy with Battleground's being the 3rd or 4th cold PPV in a row. They still need to do a better job building excitement for these shows.

Absolutely. The package is good, the price is good, it just sucks that the product it produces isn't good.

This is the most important aspect in raising the subscriber count. Because after all, what sane person is going to spend $10 a month on something they don't enjoy?

Spoiler

yes i just implied that the people that have bought the network aren't sane

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

That's kind of the reason why they did include all the PPV's though, because nobody does care about the rest of the PPV's. Without them, would they really have any selling point? I don't see classic PPV's or their "ground breaking" exclusive original programming as selling points, to be honest.

But yeah, they put all their eggs in one basket and it was stupid.

The fact that they don't have all eps of Raw/SD is just baffling. That should have been a no brainer to have.

 

[Snowman1]

What you mean Kane main eventing a bunch of PPVs in 2014 isn't excitement enough for ya??

What can I say? I'm hard to please. :smug:

 

[Green Jesus]

On topic now: This kind of makes me sad, I would totally subscribe to the network if:
A) They would allow overseas subscription
B)I had a regular income.

I feel kind of shitty having watched wwe for the past few years on a regular basis without even contributing to the company.

 

[Red Rain]

Let me just copy paste what I said again:



$120 isn't a whole lot, but how many people want to spend that on the WWE? It may seem like a good deal (and it is a good deal), but how many people actually want it?

Good argument

 

[The GOAT]

But how many people are actually hooked to the television show and aren't just watching it out of habit?

Um, how would I know? I'm just making guesstimates about how WWE views it's audience. I really don't think they were being too presumptuous when they assumed that their weekly viewers watch the show more out of enjoyment than just pure habit (most people don't usually follow something week-to-week unless it's something they enjoy tuning into), and would thus (at least a good, sizable chunk of them) be willing to put down money for the Network.

It's still way too early to pass the Network off as a failure just yet, but if it doesn't work out in the end, it was still worth a shot. It wasn't a slam-dunk, but then none of WWE's successes ever are; McMahon has always been one to take calculated risks. The very first Wrestlemania was a much bigger gamble than the Network is, as the failure of that would have single-handily bankrupted the company, and look at what happened there.

 

[Red Rain]

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Shut the domain, Vince it's over

 

[leojay]

McMahon has always been one to take calculated risks.

I don't know about you, but killing their entire PPV business doesn't seem like much of a calculated risk to me. Especially considering their lowest predicted subscriber numbers were one million, and they guaranteed much more. If it was a calculated risk, shouldn't of their prediction been about where the subscriber number are now?

I'm sure down the line they will make the WWE Network successful via increasing the price and by adding advertisements, but calling this a calculated risk is giving them way too much credit. They based those subscriber number predictions on a "study" they conducted saying that there are over 90 million houses in America with at least one WWE fan, despite the fact that there are only 4 million people in America actively watching their flagship show live. They buy into their own hype and overestimate their fanbase, I guess that's what years of gloating about how good and popular you are will do.