Bad news - Flotrack just bought the rights to the Dubai Marathon - Put it behind its paywall

RuthlessSavage wrote:

cant even see them in the black

Turn up the brightness on your monitor or open your eyes

set country to singapore

enjoy livestream

shit bag move last min

and on principal they are screwing the running community because they can !!!

absolute boycott from here on out for me and my group !!

lost plenty of money from us over the next year , but now not another penny!!!

Hit me baby one more time wrote:

Also, flotrack has done as much for the running community as anyone else. If not for them, you'd likely never have seen the faces and races of many runners. Has letsrun been providing racing videos, interviews, and flying to meet to meet as much as Flotrack? No. Not anywhere close.

YOur joking right? Letsrun went to world xc in Amman Jordan and Guiyang China. I'm sorry that they are not covering the the Carnegie Mellon Invite this week like flotrack. They fly to major events. Flotrack flies to the events they have the rights to.

grape drink wrote:

Runner T wrote:

Well, here is how I feel about it. It is $12/month to subscribe to Flotrack. That is about the cost of a Mc Donald's meal or a Starbucks meal. Running is something that is inspirational and motivational to me. This not a large price to pay. Their content is solid. Worth the price of admission IMHO.

What if in the middle of your monthly meal, an employee came out and took half of your sandwich away from you, and wouldn't give you your money back? What if 99% of the menu items were things that neither you nor anyone else would ever, ever want to eat? What if the food was served by recent douchebro communications grads who shouted inane, rambling commentary about the food during your entire meal? Might not be worth it, then.

As long as it's hot and supersized that's cool.

lalalala wrote:

RuthlessSavage wrote:

cant even see them in the black

Turn up the brightness on your monitor or open your eyes

Ya, open your eyes!

Thank u!!!

Free stream on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ0RMiccO4c&feature=player_embedded

there you go! Thanx

Supersize me wrote:

grape drink wrote:

What if in the middle of your monthly meal, an employee came out and took half of your sandwich away from you, and wouldn't give you your money back? What if 99% of the menu items were things that neither you nor anyone else would ever, ever want to eat? What if the food was served by recent douchebro communications grads who shouted inane, rambling commentary about the food during your entire meal? Might not be worth it, then.

As long as it's hot and supersized that's cool.

That's what she said.

It would now take Pope Francis going head to head vs. Trump in an 800 for me give Flotrap one stink'in dime.

oh please wrote:

How many will of those sign up just to watch Dubai? 7 people? 17? We are probably talking a few hundred dollars. I'm not understanding how the economics work here.

It's not obvious at first but think about it. If they are the first company with said rights and simultaneously block out other outlets coverage of the event they are in control.

Amazon did this with they intrepidly realized if they became the #1 worlds store theyd win a market. For years amazon didnt make much profit. Went something like $4 billion in debt. But once they got there the market was theirs.

Online Publisher wrote:

oh please wrote:

How many will of those sign up just to watch Dubai? 7 people? 17? We are probably talking a few hundred dollars. I'm not understanding how the economics work here.

It's not obvious at first but think about it. If they are the first company with said rights and simultaneously block out other outlets coverage of the event they are in control.

Amazon did this with they intrepidly realized if they became the #1 worlds store theyd win a market. For years amazon didnt make much profit. Went something like $4 billion in debt. But once they got there the market was theirs.

A million other companies tried that too and they all went bankrupt. Look up the "Dot com bubble."

survey says wrote:

I have to laugh at the number of people who are opposed to capitalism when they're on the paying end.

This is capitalism though. Company offers product for price that market isn't willing to accept. Cost is too high, demand suffers. Competing products (i.e. Proxy services) offer better value and are used.

Trollster_the_real_1 wrote:

Blotrack sucks! Maybe their announcers will say Bekele's chasing the ghost of Steve Scott!!!

Sorry, is that a reference to the Alan Webb AR vid? Can't quite remember, hilarious though

Flo understands that there is an inverse relationship between number of viewers and the price they charge. They also understand that a pay-per-event format results in a far more volatile cash flow stream (lenders and other partners prefer a more predictable cash flow stream, all else constant). Anyhow, taking these trade-offs into consideration, Flo should charge the price which maximizes their revenue. I, for one, think Flo charges a reasonable price for the niche product they provide. However, I do think they should experiment with pay-per-event pricing as it would shed light on the demand curve for their product ($1-$5 for events like MtSAC, Griak, and Wisco, Regionals, $10 for Penn Relays, NCAAs, FL, NXN, maybe $10-$20 for indoor/outdoor nationals). They might find that a $1 charge (for example) to watch only Dubai might have generated more revenue than they expected (tho many would still grumble that it isn't 'free').

FYI - you lost too many readers as soon as you wrote "inverse."However, I do like the idea of your pay-per-event pricing scale. I'd pay a couple bucks to watch Wisco or some indoor track meet like BU. Not sure if I'd pay $10 to watch NXN, but would pay $10 to watch Penn Relays esp if that includes each day...

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