@casualsheets​ just added Fubo to the Cord Cutting and Paid Content spreadsheets.

Fubo started out as a soccer streaming service, but recently announced it’s adding a bunch of other sports, too. It’s been around for almost two years, and really should have been on the spreadsheet before this. #shameoncasual

While cable subscriber data and streaming service data suggests that cord-cutting is a legit trend, the death of the programming bundle is a little harder to judge. The “a la carte, just pay for the channels you like” forecast makes sense. But a case can be made that while many legacy bundles are going away, new bundles are getting reassembled. Either way you’re paying for access to a ton of stuff you won’t consume. Even when you’re only paying for a single service, as that service adds more and more content and higher price points, the question of how to identity the abstraction layer of a “channel” versus a “platform” gets fuzzier and fuzzier.

Not that there’s anything wrong/broken about this. Just that sometimes “death of cable” and “death of the bundle” get conflated. 

We’re probably going to continue to pay for a bunch of stuff we don’t watch, because it’s convenient.

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The current communications and home entertainment fad from the major communications and media businesses is bundling two or more services into one discount package. This trend started with cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter and Cox and moved to national phone carriers who now offer TV and broadband in select areas on top of traditional phone service. Does purchasing bundled TV, internet and phone services truly help you spend less money? For years, I have been covering digital services and products and in this piece I'll give you a look at these package deals and let you know whether going to one company for all of your broadband, television, and telephone requirements is ideal or whether shopping around is the best method.

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