Video streaming: the end of the golden age

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MEDIA LETTER. OCS without HBO series, Leap in search of a future… In pursuit of profitability, platforms are reducing spending on content.

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Tfirst start of the year for fans of French series. HBO series, considered the “cream of the crop” of the genre, are no longer available on OCS, the Orange channel package available in France. This is due to the termination of the agreement between the telecom operator and the American channel HBO. From 1^is January, around 3 million OCS subscribers no longer have access to around sixty series. Between them, The cable, Six feet below, The Sopranos, game of Thrones, Sex and the citybut also Successionof which you can only see season 3.

Since the creation of OCS in 2008, 15 years ago, HBO content has been its primary subscription lever. The streaming platform, always in loss, would have accumulated more than 400 million losses from…

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