The 2010s have brought lots of changes into our daily lives, for example, everyone owns a smartphone, everyone has a laptop, and we are using the internet to take classes for school and work. The internet has changed everything and T.V is no exception, since the internet was created and put in the power of the public, it has fought with T.V for the attention of viewers. Youtube was the first of many to butt heads with Hollywood because of people posting full movies, T.V shows, and clips, and snippets of scenes for free. This didn’t last long as many companies sued YouTube for allowing illegal streaming on their site but it did help start a new revolution of videos on the internet that still compete with T.V to this day. 

` After YouTube came Netflix and their “brand new” service that mails movies to your door… yeah late 2000s Netflix was weird and not at all juggernaut it is today. They did introduce streaming later and that’s when it got huge but initially, Netflix was made exclusively for renting movies through the mail which posed no threat to TV at the time. Most big corporations thought it was gonna fail, for example, Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for a fraction of its cost today and now look where each of them is today in 2020. Netflix now has grown to be the biggest threat to T.V since the beginning of the internet because not only do they have old properties such as “The Office” or “Breaking Bad”  but they have made their own critically acclaimed shows such as “BoJack Horseman” and “Stranger Things” that actually have won T.V show awards such as the Emmys. This year according to CNBC.com Netflix got 160 nominations for the Emmys which is an insane number given that T.V used to dominate the award. 

After Netflix hit it big with its streaming service big companies such as Disney started to hop on the streaming bandwagon. Now the industry has become oversaturated with streaming platforms such as HBO Max, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and many, many more. Each of these entails a subscription you must pay monthly just to access these videos but this is the problem with having too many services. No one wants to pay for these many streaming services each month as it can get extremely costly, so T.V does have the upper hand here but as of late T.V has been merging with these companies so, not only do you get to watch on-demand, you also can watch live T.V anywhere. This has caused the tension between streaming and T.V to cool off because of the partnerships they have but this doesn’t mean the war is over since TV is still fighting for the audience. 

One question I would like to pass to the reader is, do you believe that T.V will be obsolete and we will all use streaming services or does T.V have it’s niche audience to keep it running for a while.