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Are you happy to pay to watch fishing videos?

Huanzhou Zhu

Huanzhou Zhu

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Just find out Martin Bowler started this new vide subscription channel, fishflix, the videos seem to have high quality, the price is ok, but I am hesitate to subscribe it, guess I am just used and spoiled by the YouTube?
 
The carp scene is flooded with them right now. These subscription things normally start off good but once they’ve done pieces with all the decent anglers and start running out of ideas they just end up putting out shit for the sake of it to try keep subscribers. I just join for a month or 2 in the winter now and watch the handful of good pieces from the year then cancel.
 
No I wouldn’t pay. Didn’t Matt Hayes try a similar subscription video venture and failed?

I’m quite happy watching Fish with Carl videos on YouTube. High quality professional videos and he has 490K subscribers, so guess he makes a living from sponsors (Korda and Guru), along with YouTube advertising revenue. This seems to be the way to go.

Ginger Fishermen is watchable although it’s getting a bit ’samey’. Life on the Bank also does some good videos and especially his ‘Perch Masters’ series. Always look forward to Drennan Specialist videos and I like the way they don’t go over the top with product placement 👍🏻

On the YouTube downside there’s also a lot of boring amateurish video bloggers, which add nothing. Also not keen on Korum Videos, which could learn something from Drennan’s more professional approach with less product placement 👎🏻

Just pick and choose, which channels you subscribe to 👍🏻
 
Neil Blood said:
No I wouldn’t pay. Didn’t Matt Hayes try a similar subscription video venture and failed?

I’m quite happy watching Fish with Carl videos on YouTube. High quality professional videos and he has 490K subscribers, so guess he makes a living from sponsors (Korda and Guru), along with YouTube advertising revenue. This seems to be the way to go.

Ginger Fishermen is watchable although it’s getting a bit ’samey’. Life on the Bank also does some good videos and especially his ‘Perch Masters’ series. Always look forward to Drennan Specialist videos and I like the way they don’t go over the top with product placement 👍🏻

On the YouTube downside there’s also a lot of boring amateurish video bloggers, which add nothing. Also not keen on Korum Videos, which could learn something from Drennan’s more professional approach with less product placement 👎🏻

Just pick and choose, which channels you subscribe to 👍🏻
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Yeah, that’s why I haven’t subscribed yet, I like fishing with Carl, Mark Erdwin, the Avon angler is also good, but a bit boring recently. Drennan specialist is great, Nash and sticky bait also do good videos. Recently favourite is silent angling. And fallon’s angler.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
Just find out Martin Bowler started this new vide subscription channel, fishflix, the videos seem to have high quality, the price is ok, but I am hesitate to subscribe it, guess I am just used and spoiled by the YouTube?
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YouTube we're spoilt rotten to be honest. But when it comes to paying for shows, I kinda think the wheel has already been invented, so what else is he going to show that hasn't been done before?
Just another money making incentive, but fair play to him for doing it... Just not for me.
 
No, i wouldn,t pay, there is simply too much quality videos available for free. I also have a " A Passion for Angling " on DVD, never get tired of watching it.
 
As someone who works in producing commercial broadcast content I know how much things cost. It costs a lot! I work as a sound recordist.

The smallest professional documentary team I’ve worked in is two people just this week actually. A DOP/cameraman/woman and soundman/woman totalling about £2000 a day with kit. Every angle and any drone shots are additional cameras to hire with operators. It soon adds up.

funnily enough the previous week I was working on a golf doc for sky sports where we followed a golfer who went carp fishing (a dream for me!). That was a crew of 7 and probably nearer £5-7000 a day with a director, producer, production manager, 2 cameras, sound, gaffer, transport for all.

Fishing content is a bit of a nightmare - a lot of waiting round until something may or may not happen. Probably the most expensive of all sports to film. Imagine spending £2000 a day on filming while you try to catch a 15lb barbel for the cameras.

That’s why I suggest there has to be a financial return if you use professional crew. If you’re a Mark Edwin then you’re doing it all yourself and it’s not a professional level (no less watchable). If you’re Carl you’ve learnt to become a pro producing top level content and your business model is the social channels pay per view money from showing ads around it- so you have to keep going and going.

Drennan and ESP are my favourite.

I would look to produce a pilot and get sky sports to air it myself. But it doesn’t cost much to set up a subscriber based content website and give it a go. 1000 people paying £7 a month. That covers making a few films.
 
MB is everywhere at the moment, he has just had Covid I honestly think he needs to step back a bit. We don't need another Wilson dynasty casualty.
 
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