RE: Pay per view: PH Blog

[Squadrone Rosso]

Can't get this week's California T to play

[sagarich]

Hmmmm, videos on Drive+ seem to have dried up again...

[zeduffman]

sagarich said:

Hmmmm, videos on Drive+ seem to have dried up again...

Cheers for the bump, subscription would have renewed in 3 days.

Must be dire when it takes a thread bump rather than content to remind me I'm subscribed to this channel.

I gave it a go, but frankly, it's been pants.

[TheArchitect]

Hmmm bit annoying when they keep advertising their NBC stuff but it'll never make it onto the place I am paying for it seems. They've one more month to impress or I may have to call it quits.

[brasse]

I've just unsubscribed. I'm all for paying for content (i'm even paying £10/month for a FLAC-streaming service with less-than-a-lot-of-content, in addition to Spotify and another streaming service). And HBO. And Netflix. And some work-related stuff.

But I won't pay for nothing. There was going to be 2-3 videos each week. There has been 2-0.
I'll let them publish their content and then resubscribe and binge it later.

[Mezzanine]

If the content is drying up already, it does not look like a positive sign

[EricE]

Mezzanine said:

If the content is drying up already, it does not look like a positive sign

Not too surprising if you read the first few pages of the thread. They confirmed the doubts when they canceled all yearly subscriptions.

Today is the September 11th and I still get this message when I try to access youtube.com/driveplus:



They stated that "all eyes of the industry are on them at the moment"... well now all of those eyes are watering from laughter.

[monthefish]

I note a distinct lack of video content on PH now. I assume related to/a direct result of this topic.

[Beefmeister]

It does appear to be a monumental f**kup that is doing its very best to ruin Chris Harris' potentially massive career.

He needs to go it alone, very soon to put this to bed.

[tomjol]

Quickly running out of patience with this.

[chrispmartha]

Beefmeister said:

It does appear to be a monumental f**kup that is doing its very best to ruin Chris Harris' potentially massive career.

could make an appearance on the most cringeworthy post thread :-)

[Charlie Michael]

I'm all for subscription based quality content, but when you make the public pay, I feel that you then have a massive amount of pressure on you to deliver content on-time and deliver a certain quantity of content as per your original promise.

Fail with this and you'll have a mass exodus of subscribers and it'll die off.

I love drive videos, but don't make promises that you cannot deliver on.

[zeduffman]

monthefish said:

I note a distinct lack of video content on PH now. I assume related to/a direct result of this topic.

The videos behind the paywall don't get featured on the front page - and rightly so imo. Though there has been fewer 'time for tea' videos than normal since new management rolled in.

[krallicious]

I still can't view the channel in Germany. So much for the international fixes. Drive was something I looked forward to every week but I mainly watch Motor Trend now. I can understand why they need the extra money but it really seems to have gone tits up.

[JB!]

Plus its Hotrod Drag week!

[Truckosaurus]

Also on the subject of MotorTrend/HotRod the latest Roadkill video was little more than a Subaru Legacy infomercial (a car far removed from the channel's core content), so even the 'rich' magazines have to pimp themselves out to provide 'free' content.

[krallicious]

Truckosaurus said:

Also on the subject of MotorTrend/HotRod the latest Roadkill video was little more than a Subaru Legacy infomercial (a car far removed from the channel's core content), so even the 'rich' magazines have to pimp themselves out to provide 'free' content.

Yep, the last Roadkill was ste.

[JB!]

krallicious said:

Yep, the last Roadkill was ste.

That charger on gravel was quality! It was a massive ad for Subaru, but to be fair the didnt try to hide it Freiberger even said "we spent Subarus money on fixing some of our cars".

[krallicious]

JB! said:

That charger on gravel was quality! It was a massive ad for Subaru, but to be fair the didnt try to hide it Freiberger even said "we spent Subarus money on fixing some of our cars".

True, it looked like good fun but the older episodes were better to watch IMO even though I have zero mechanical know how.

[Funk]

JB! said:

krallicious said:

Yep, the last Roadkill was ste.

That charger on gravel was quality! It was a massive ad for Subaru, but to be fair the didnt try to hide it Freiberger even said "we spent Subarus money on fixing some of our cars".

It did jar slightly but sometimes I guess you have to do these things in order to keep it free. I'm not quite sure what Subaru got out if it, typical Roadkill viewers aren't likely to be interested in the Legacy really, are they?