{"id":23537,"date":"2018-10-26T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=23537"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:33:04","slug":"bbc-vs-netflix-is-the-entertainment-industry-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/bbc-vs-netflix-is-the-entertainment-industry-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC vs Netflix \u2013 Is the entertainment industry changing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ofcom\u2019s first report of the year on the BBC came out yesterday October 25th<\/sup>, and pointed out a deep crisis on the appeal the public broadcaster has on a younger audience. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Taking into consideration the 16-to-34-year-old category, the regulator found out a dramatic decrease in the ratings. For instance, BBC online channel Three, which directly aims at young people, could only reach 8% of 16-34s a week.<\/p>\n

This suggests a big shift in the entertainment industry and leads to imagine a changing scenario, where the main source of our generation\u2019s contents to watch may no longer be the BBC.\u00a0Younger consumers now have a wider variety of choices, with YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime video becoming more and more competitive in the market: the report claims that in this context the BBC is not making enough changes, or making them fast enough.<\/p>\n

But what do future professionals in the industry think? I asked a poll of 16-34-years-old Media students whether they\u2019d rather work for the BBC or streaming platforms like Netflix in their future careers and why.<\/p>\n

Here are their voices on it:<\/p>\n

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A Twitter poll revealed, with close results, that the BBC is still preferred as a possible workplace<\/p><\/div>\n

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Words by: Matilde Moro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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