Tubi is the Quiet King of Streaming (and Beating Disney)
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Tubi beat Disney Plus, Max, Paramount Plus and Peacock in May. What does this mean for streaming? In this video, I go over it all.
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I love Tubi! I’ve been finding myself using it more than ever now. So many good films… as well as terrible films
Can't live without Tubi.
Tubi’s great! Lots of good hidden movies
Intersting, but not for me I don't like ads, but I'm curious is tubi avalible outside of USA (I live in Poland)
I’ve watched over 60 movies on Tubi just since the start of this year, including huge classics like The Thing, Cool Hand Luke, and North By Northwest, as well as a lot of modern hits like La La Land and Hell or High Water, Tubi has a seriously underrated library
tubi, max, and disney+ all have doctor who, but none of them have the same doctor who, which i feel sums up the current frustrating state of streaming pretty well
And you ultimately get much more Doctor Who on Tubi since it's 25+ years of TV. I also prefer the theatricality of Classic Who compared to the epic melodrama of New Who.
Thankfully in the UK it's all on iPlayer, which is free if you pay your TV license. It's kind of dumb that Disney didn't get the license to have all of it for the rest of the world, though, or why BBC haven't made iPlayer available for a fee internationally
It's a great argument in favor of piracy. I don't know what the point is comparing all these various streaming services when they're all part of the same pile of garbage
You might like videogamedunkey's guide to streaming video
This comment about the Doctor Who situation suddenly reminded me of a scene from Spaceballs:
Dark Helmet: "We can't go in there! Yogurt has the Schwarz!"
Colonel Sanders: "But sir, your ring! Don't you have the Schwarz too?"
Dark Helmet: "Yeah, but he got the upside; I got the downside. You see there's two sides to every Schwarz."
Tubi has the good Doctor Who and Disney+ has the crummy one. They'll never beat Tubi at this rate.
Tubi is as close to a video store in the 90s as it gets
Not Netflix?
@@Thed538dhsk Netflix stinks
Well said homie
@@mikepostalakis Netflix is king of streaming for right now
It's got everything except overpriced boxed candy. Well, that and video games...
It’s like a ‘90s Blockbuster at the touch of a button. “All the Pulp Fictions are checked out. How about a Ghoulies marathon?”
Or how about a whole binge night of a Fox show like Lego Masters, or how about a Canadian cartoon marathon with 6teen, DN Ace, and Detentionaire for those true niche cartoon fans.
@@shaneharrisnj3484 yeah something CM missed was how the 39 demographic is mostly parents. guess what tubi had, old shows we grew up with. gi joes, transformers, beast wars. so guess what i turn on for my kids...tubi
@@benjaminwatt2469 Don't worry, the 18-49 demo will love Tubi's other obsession. The Filmrise remasters of older Stephen J. Cannell shows: Hunter, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings, Cobra, etc. Filmrise also has the US distribution rights to a few shows I mentioned above, that being DN Ace, 6teen, and Detentionaire, both of whom came from Nelvana. Tubi is the best thing Fox has done since they brought back the 1996-07 theme song for Fox Saturday Baseball in 2020.
Tubi's sci-fi/fantasy section is basically interdimensional cable from Rick & Morty.
I prefer to think of it as the free cable that the Plutonians steal from the Aqua Teens using the Fargate on that one episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
@@cinnamonnoir2487 it is the FARgate. We do not want to get sued!
the funniest part of the whole Prime With Ads debacle is that(just like Twitch) half the ads are for Amazon services that most folks with Prime _already have_ , meaning that Amazon is so bad at getting advertising deals that they're having to backfill the slots with their own advertisements; thus rendering the whole exercise into just being an annoyance tax that doesn't generate crap in advertising revenue, but exists only to pester paying subscribers into paying more to make the Amazon ads go away 😁
Amazon is officially just the new Dish Network now.
And their lack of ads means you see the same ad every ad break
Reminds me of the annoying "RUclips Premium" ad that RUclips can't stop playing.
They're doing a great job annoying their subscribers. I had to laugh at the irony when one ad (that played over and over, ad nauseam) was for their Prime podcasts. The biggest feature that they boasted in these ads were that the podcasts were ad-free!!! (How can they be so clueless!)
Lol to be fair, Amazon Prime has some way across the line gruesome shows like the Boys and Preacher on there. Imagine being a business trying to get an ad spot on Amazon but then thinking about the optics of your brand popping up right before Homelander forces a teenage girl to commit sue a side
Grateful for Tubi! “Guardians of the Power Mask” an animated series I worked on in 2009 is in there. Our producers shopped it around for years, but no networks picked it up. I would tell people about this project I worked on, but they had no way to watch it. And then Tubi (and Amazon) picked it up a few years ago. Please, I encourage you to add it to your watch list. Show it to your kids! Thank you Tubi!
I really like Guardians of the Power Masks! Great job on the show! The reason I found the show is that I was looking up projects that Jymn Magon worked on, since I was a 90s kid, and I liked many of his previous scripts. And Jymn wrote one episode of Guardians of the Power Masks, so I found out about the show that way.
@@josephward5436 Thank you for your support. I'm sooo glad that people are finally getting to watch it. We were supposed to do a season of 26 episodes, but only 13 got animated. I did storyboards on 2 of those that made it: The pilot episode and Idol Worship. Jymn Magon wrote Idol Worship. I never got to meet him. And it didn't occur to me who he was until much later. But I'm a 90's kid, and Im a fan and grew up with DuckTales and a Goofy Movie. Power Mask isnt a big show, but a least I get to say I worked on a Jymn Magon script. PS, I was a rookie out of college at the time, so a majority of my storyboards got heavily revised, but it's still neat to see some of my gags survive.
Having all of Classic Doctor Who available is a BIG win for Tubi!
I never watched Doctor Who because the 60+ years of overwhelming lore but if its free I guess I’m starting now
@@audiovisualcringe feel free to skip around between eras. The first Doctor's era isn't for everyone, so watching it all in order can get exhausting really quickly. HBO Max has NuWho (2005-2022) and Disney+ has the latest incarnation.
I'd recommend starting with the 3rd doctor. With spearhead from space.
@@capybara1331no, I’d recommend starting from the beginning if you’re going to start from the beginning
@@audiovisualcringe
The 2005 reboot and to a lesser extent the 2024 series are both designed as jumping on points that slowly reintroduce the older lore. Also canon isn't real in dr who so the 60 years of lore is mostly irrelevant since they happily retcon things all the time.
I love Tubi. It's the streaming service I watch the most because to me its movie selection is akin to the independent video stores from the 80s and 90s before family-friendly Blockbuster ran most of them out of business. The ones that had all of the cool Horror movies and ninja movies. It's B-movie heaven.
Oh no way - if it’s available in Australia I’m getting it
I loved those ma and pop video rental stores! They were everywhere for a period of time. What a crazy variety of movies they'd have. We had a fantastic one called 'Black Dog Video' here in Vancouver. It somehow managed to survive long after Blockbuster was gone. Sadly, it shut down a couple of years ago after having been around since the late 1990s.
People got sick of 6 to 8 episode "seasons" that take an entire 2 years between, and having to pay for the privilege. I mean UK has been doing very short seasons (for budgetary reasons) forever, but they've always been on free over the air television. Short seasons leave show fans frustrated.
All of sudden, being recognized as a "TUBI ACTOR/ ACTRESS" doesn't sound like a bad compliment.
It still does. Apple is the most prestigious, Netflix is the most profitable, Disney is the most franchise popular, and Amazon is the most edgy of the streaming services for talent like actors. A tubi actor is still considered right now being a subpar actor.
I think tubi needs a great successful hit show. Before its actor start to become respected.
I’d rather be associated with Tubi than Apple or Amazon or Disney.
@@trevorrogers95 why?
@@Thed538dhsk Amazon and Disney have a reputation of destroying beloved franchises. Apple has all the baggage that comes from being a tech company. All three have a reputation of leaning leftward on a certain spectrum.
Tubi is genius. Tubi is a free streaming service with a couple of quality movies, but is also probably the best "so bad it's good" streaming service. Seriously, deep tubi is like the wild west.
They’ve got some great movies, and then bottom-of-the-barrel home movies. For being a streaming service with ads, it honestly isn’t all that bad. Definitely a streaming service I’ll be using more soon
We watching the original silent film Nosferatu the other day! I mean it's amazing!
Now CM (Captain Midnight) is definitely talking our language: "free with ads" tier!
So happy that's it's getting relatively good recognition it needs, even beating the house of mouse (no offense on "paid" tier) in its own game.
They also got anime ,which are chefs kiss
Absolutely. Love Tubi for this reason.
Tubi has almost every Transformers show AND all of Classic Doctor Who, that's all I needed to see.
You're welcome to it.
You do know it's 2024
& not 1984, right 😂.
Oh, I know! I got excited when I saw all the transformers shows on it.
My family loves watching old movies (typically black and white, or with the old cameras), especially Godzilla. They have a massive catalog.
I watched Transformers Animated for the first time last month thanks to Tubi.
What ever happened to the Eighth Doctor though?
My 4yo just devours Tubi's old 80s & 90s cartoons.
While I get to explore more of Canada's best cartoons of the modern era... (DN Ace or Detentionaire, anyone?)
I wish I could pay for no ads just for these shows. I wish they just had Fruity Pebbles and Super Soaker ads on the kids shows.
Good for him, watching the era of toons when they were good and at there peak.
MeTV Toons just launched on Antenna television and it is full of classic toons for free over the air
@@shaneharrisnj3484 I've been enjoying the lineup so far, reminds me of when boomerang launched and also some of the really great years of CN. Idk what you mean because I've caught mostly much older toons than the 80s. It's been so cool to see shows like The Real Ghostbusters and Captain Planet back on television. The late nite puppet shows have been great as well. Tubi has its advantages with a wider net of shows they offer, you can't beat 1969 Scooby Doo streaming free tbh, but the overall quality feels better from MeTV Toons
What I personally appreciate most about tubi is how hands off it is. I can discover new movies/shows (most of which I have never heard of in my entire life) solely on my own without the service trying to shove recommendations down my throat. Most of the time I’m solely going off the thumbnail and synopsis-it feels like browsing a video rental store and picking up a cool looking DVD because it caught your eye. It’s hard to articulate but it’s a nice sense of freedom I don’t experience with other streamers. I think people get held up on the fact that it’s a free service, but Tubi has a legitimately great selection from critically acclaimed films, to some random movie from the 70s nine people have seen, to silent films, to the obscure late 2000s anime, to cult classics major streaming services don’t take any interest in. Of all the services I'm subscribed to I find myself using tubi the most
I forgot about Crackle. I remember watching a horror movie on Tubi and the ad breaks were kind of hilarious. Big scary moment interrupted by a Burger King ad.
That actually makes perfect sense to me given how scary Burger King's mascot looks!
@@bl3343They rarely did anything with the mascot since the return of the tan/red logo. On the contrary, Sony took a big L by giving up on crackle. I remember watching the crap out of TJ Hooker on that service.
As someone who is 39, thanks for not calling me old :D
This 40 year-old agrees. 😊
This 50 year old also agrees. 🎉
This 69 year old agrees
I love Tubi. It’s the only place I can stream official subs of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, and has tons of Ultra Man and Grid Man
Some of those were also on Pluto TV as well, On Demand.
I’m watching every Oscar nominated Best Picture, and Tubi has half of the movies I’ve been watching. It’s the best streaming service for me!
Really? That's awesome! I'll have to check it out. :)
Finally, more people are starting to see Tubi’s goatedness
More people would see it if it was available outside the USA.
@@PaulJohn01 It used to be! At least it was in Japan. But with limited selection. But that's how I first started watching it because it had old/indie horror movies. Then I started watching it with a VPN and it unlocked a ton of stuff. Then I didn't renew my VPN and realized it wasn't available in Japan anymore, even limited. I've tried to find out why but haven't been able to. The only reason I actually care about a VPN is Tubi (and, to a small extent, Pluto TV).
😂 There is always one.
There are a lot of old cartoons you can't even find on RUclips or torrenting that Tubi has. It's impressive and awesome as a free service.
I was watching Oswald and Felix the Cat earlier today. I think I've also been through Don Bluth's filmography as well
Its Ironic that Fox sold their backcatalog to Disney so they could make this massive paid streaming service. Then Fox with very little invested turned Tubi into a big success.
Selling 20th Century Fox might be Rupert Murdoch's biggest mistake.
Tubi sounds a lot like the old "independent" UHF stations whose lifeblood was old TV shows and movies with ads. Growing up in the Boston area in the 60's and 70's there were basically 2 place s you could go: local Networks affiliates ABC, CBS and NBC and ch 56 and 38 for local sports, reruns of Mash and Creature Double Feature movies.....then came Cable and Streaming.
Local stations like that still exist.
Dude WLVI and WSBK were awesome with all the cool old stuff. I still hear Dana Hersey's voice when I think of 38.
I've been using Tubi for a while now, and I absolutely love it. The ads aren't intrusive and it has a good selection of tokusatsu shows.
Those shows also existed on Pluto TV On Demand.
The Pam Grier film is titled Cinnamon and was directed by my buddy Bryian. I had the pleasure of going to the premiere and bias aside, I can very much vouch for its quality.
Tubi is by far the best. The most considerate service when it comes to commercial placement and volume. They also have an awesome selection of flix.
Tubi had all the seasons of Farscape, thats all I needed to have it as an app.
Same. That's what brought me in
I mean, all the Farscape episodes are on RUclips for free too....
I’m making my way through for the first season atm ❤️
Pair Tubi with Pluto, who has a whole Crunchy Roll channel, and you don’t really need the larger services.
Babylon 5 as well
Important to note Tubi is max 720p....I think it signifies people don’t care about quality and just want something to pass the time. I’d also guess given how fragmented everything is nowadays, you can just watch old shows and not be any more “left out” than if you watched new shows.
It's sounding to me like Tubi is the king of Second Screen. I dunno if we want to encourage that kind of media consumption, but like hey, if that's what the customer is after...
When he said 39 might not seem that young for you I felt that in my 39 year old bones
You're not that young but certainly not old. Being young is overrated. You're at the "Hollywood Summer Blockbuster Protagonist" age.
One thing I love about Tubi is it constantly changing back catalogue. Like with streaming service like Disney i feel like I've watched everything on it and theres much less variaty in the type of content of it's platform.
Of course, the flipside of that is finding something you've been meaning to watch for a while is no longer available (though a lot of stuff ends up cycling back in after a bit).
I can't tell you how tired I am of 8 episode seasons
Preach
@@1983jcheat also fuck paid subscription packages with ads
Agreed. Give me seasons the length of Buffy or classic Trek!
I get why it's like this, but I fucking hate it
And each season being 2-3 years apart
Excuse me mister midnight, what the heck is a toobie
Microsoft Edge is the best streaming service on Xbox
U speak for all the europeans
@@nichtimchor And all of Asia and Africa and the Middle East and all of Latin America + all the penguins in Antarctica !
Do you have Pluto TV or the Roku channel?...same concept except owned by what is left of Fox, after Disney bought most of it.
@@JamesR1986 No but i think the last time i tried Pluto TV it also said it wasn't available in this region.
Most of the "free' streaming sites have only ever been available in the USA.
I'll check again.
I used to have a Hulu account when i lived in the US. but i don't think it's active anymore.
The Demolition Man is awesome.
After Blade, it's my favorite Wesley Snipes film and my favorite Sylvester Stallone film.
Yes!
As a longtime Tubi lover, it's nice to see more people giving it a chance. Someone already said it but deep Tubi is the wildwest and has some of coolest and weirdest stuff imaginable. It reminds me of old Netflix and video stores, you will stumble across something special that you've never heard of if you just keep digging... I think I have a couple hundred movies and shows in my library and it grows every month
Tubi as a host for those spaghetti westerns and Bogart movie is honestly slept on too, because I think it’s bs that other platforms don’t have them or are charging $20 for a film that’s approaching a century-years old.
Ironic when you consider that the original book that The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was based on is essentially an extended diatribe against imperialistic greed.
Tubi has really upgraded their library recently. I love watching NYPD Blue on tubi
I'm watching it too lately. Just started season 6. Forgot how great of a show it was.
@@TheNighthawk66 It’s essentially four different shows and they are all enjoyable
I frankly love Tubi. I first discovered it because it was the only place to legally stream Beast Wars. Now as I’ve gotten into Kamen Rider, Tubi is what I use to watch tokusatsu. Yeah, they only have what handful of series have been officially subbed, but it’s way more convienient to stream Kuuga or Ryuki from my living room TV than my pc.
Heck yeah, fellow Beast Wars enjoyer.
Those titles are also available on Pluto TV On Demand, and yes, these shows also aired on their live channels as well.
Tubi is great lotsa old Westerns and Kung Fu movies - been watching RoboDoc this week!
I have been singing the praises of Tubi ( and to a lesser extent, Pluto TV) for years. Being old I don't even get upset by the ads since I grew up with that. In fact I was surprised at just how few ad breaks they run. Even on fairly new movies.
Tubi is amazing and it brings me a lot of happiness to hear it get stronger recognition! It’s a very nice treat to have a bunch of my favorite cartoons from my childhood on the playlist and it has a lot of great Anime content, and movies from the 80s and 90s! It’s always something that I enjoy having on in the background when I’m doing computer work but it also works really well for relaxing in the morning! I’m a huge Tubi fan! Another great video! Well done!
Disney has fewer than 1 million people watching each month? Fewer than 1 in 500 people in USA watch Disney+? That blows my mind, here in the UK pretty much everyone I know who has kids has Disney+
And how many families with Disney+ in the UK *don't* watch Bluey? There's something to ponder.
He probably meant concurrent viewers at any given time, not monthly
@@LonelyGamer4 ah, that makes sense. I knew something didn’t add up.
One of the reasons I unsubscribed from Disney +. I also deleted my account
I find tubi to have some hidden gems, like some good thrillers and neo noir films from the 70s, 80s...! You just have to look!
I've been championing Tubi for 2-3 years now. Glad to see people are figuring this out. It's absolutely great when you pick it up. I'm afraid it's going to go the way of the Dodo bird though.
They also have so much of those old style Netflix feelings with the more good low budget independent or artsy movies I love. It's genuinely great, and the adds aren't ever long.
Tubi will be fine if they stick to what got them here..if there recent success doesn't go to there head and they change up what there strengths are.
37 year old and have been watching Tubi a bit more than usual this year. Feels like old school TV with cable and like others said below a video store. I watched some good old classics I haven't seen in forever and also the most random but entertaining ones.
There’s so much dang good stuff on there. Chōjin Sentai Jetman has become one of my favorite shows because of it
I absolutely love Tubi. Simply put some of the best shows can be found here from an age where writers mastered the art of single episode storytelling. Instead of having to watch an entire season to get the plot, you can get the buildup, climax, and resolution in an hour. So I can catch Columbo, OG Magnum PI, and Wanted Dead or Alive and have a great viewing experience. I believe that there’s a huge audience out there like myself that don’t want season spanning arcs but instead just want to be able to pop on the TV and be entertained. Tubi allows for this to be a reality.
Wait... you mean TV supported by advertisements is a bankable model? Who could've guessed that?!
I just found out that Disney Plus now has every Yu-Gi-Oh show. Which is so bizarre to me.
Take a close look at the flavor text for the "Pot of Greed" card and I think it'll begin to make sense.
As a fan of older movies and sitcoms from the 1940’s-1960’s, I love Tubi for its large selection of media from these decades. I mean, where else are you going to find all 104 episodes of “The Honeymooners” for free!?
im gen z, i love tubi and plutotv, i have netflix without ads but barely touch it because the library sucks in comparison. great collection of classics.
Pluto tv is underrated!
Yeah I am more of a millennial but man it's crazy to see how my 9 year old sister is more interested in seeing older 22 episodes per season TV shows than newer 10 episode shows. She actively seeks shows with more than 10 episodes.
@@kazinadbiralamadit6905that's because she has taste
1:26 yo this music change hit me like a brick wall, I feel like I e never seen that editing technique on this channel but it really elevated the gravity of that headline reveal
I recently started watching Tubi. It actually has a great selection of films that are never streaming anywhere else
Last year I watched the entirety of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters on Tubi. I also watched Lupin III, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Columbo, The Rifleman, Galaxy Express 999, and Midsumer Murders.
You guys pay to watch stuff?
Tubi has the most hidden gems and cult classics than any othe streamer. Theres always something from my watchlist on there.
Was just looking through Tubi last night for the 1st time and was blown away by the selection!
I go to Tubi to watch old tokusatsu shows like Super Sentai, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider. They've also got some old Transformers shows that I like to revisit.
These shows are also on Pluto TV as well. Both Live and On Demand.
I found Tubi when I was looking for somewhere to watch Can't Hardly Wait and there weren't even any ads. It was freaking awesome!
You hit the nail on the head. Premium services are too expensive, the good shows (if there are any) have seasons that are too short, and the seasons are released too far apart. I'm Gen X so muting a commercial is old hat. As others have noted, Tubi is like a video rental store back in the day. Streaming has become the monster they wanted to beat. Add it up and it's more expensive than cable. These studios are run by morons incapable of seeing anything beyond this quarter and the next. They'll crash and burn eventually. The economy is bad for most Americans, inflation is insane, we have to spend wisely and the reason why the premiums even got a spike was because of Covid lockdown. They've been chasing that high ever since.
I'm 43, and I either watch YT or things I already bought long ago, but I do happen to be watching a movie on Tubi as well. It's from 2009 or so, stars Woody Harrelson as a somewhat crazy low tech home grown superhero, and I couldn't find it elsewhere any easier. Title is Defendor, and it's good so far, Tubi even saved my place in the movie after a restart. I've had DVD players not so considerate, plenty of them, too. I grew up watching commercials and cutting them out by pressing STOP and REC on the VCR, anticipating the delay between button press and recording and estimating the end of the commercial break. I can handle muting the Tubi player and watching YT for five minutes.
Defendor? Golly, I remember that!
You cannot divorce the success of Tubi from its slate of Black creatives and Black audiences. This platform is going to go the way of UPN and 90s era Fox without giving credit where it is due
Facts. Most of the bad movies were made by amateur black and Latino actors lol, because the other platforms block out as many actors who aren’t willing to act for nearly free as possible.
TUBI has stuff that never made it from VHS to DVD, which is important. There's A LOT of people looking for niche, older content.
A problem with streaming services like Netflix is that shows/movies you like will eventually be removed, meaning you have to buy DVDs or stayed subscribed for one show, which people don't do.
I personally have yet to see an original series on a paid streaming service that I would spend money on to actually own and watch repeatedly.
There's a reason people password share on paid services rather than everyone pay to use it.
Tubi and freevee are putting some pretty new movies and shows on there for free. Yeah they have old stuff but that's not all.
I found Tubi when I found Babylon 5 on it. I’ve watched some classic movies I never got around to seeing before. I like it a lot.
OTOH my cousin refuses to use it because he doesn’t want his kids watching advertising. They always pay extra to not have ads on streaming.
Seems like between entertainment, retail, fast food and other forms of consumerism they’ve all started to hit their Crux of what they get can get away with in terms of price gouging their customers, I hope to see this positive change continue
This is what Peacock free model was supposed to be but instead of full seasons they block out half of them behind a paywall. Along with old movies, tv shows, and reality shows. Tubi is like the digital version of movie renting/ browsing from the 80s- 2000s. so that’s way most users are elder millennials and Gen X. I watch dumb fun campy stuff on there that I can’t find anywhere else. Also surprisingly they have the better restored version than Amazon Prime Videos. I don’t mind ads on streaming services but why do we got to pay to subscribe when there are ads? That’s why Tubi is getting more popular.
Tubi has a bunch of Japanese tokusatsu series like Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. Sentai was used for Power Rangers.
What what now!?!? I can finally watch the last 6 episodes of The Nevers? I'm sooooooo there, w00t!!
Same
I just got tubi after seeing so many videos about it and there’s so many cartoons that I watched as a kid that I was so happy to see there. Such as Jacob two two , Sonic underground and sonic x, Frannys Feet, In the night garden etc.
I'm glad for the caveat on documentaries on Tubi. I highly recommend the doc Vannin' from 2013 as a wholesome boomer snapshot of a lost era before the boom of social media "van life". The paranormal docs I inhale constantly are absolutely more dicey, but older specials featuring narrators like Michael Dorn and Jonathan Frakes are standouts.
I'm an old millennial and I've been using the hell out of FAST aps for a couple of years. Mostly Pluto so I can watch Star Trek and SpongeBob for free. As an ADHD gremlin, I don't mind commercial breaks so much, though CONSTANT pharmaceutical ads are mega lame. Just switch to the kid channels for doom free ads for toys and cereal instead!
In fact your very much wrong about Older titles being in lower quality. In fact Amazon has worst quality versions of classic black and white films than Tubi.
I've recently gotten hooked on classic silent films through Tubi, films and actors I've always known about but never really watched before.
Now I get the legendary status of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
for some reason i can spend like 30min looking for something to watch on netflix, but only like 3min looking on tubi.
even thought they're older movies.
Tubi and Pluto are my go to's
Same
The problem with streaming involves two paradoxes:
* The more something is available, the less you'll want it
* The more options you have, the less satisfied you'll be with each one
Neither of those claims are based on anything… Just pop psychology.
That’s not true
You took some bad quote off Facebook and take it as gospel l.
Tubi is successful because it’s basically basic tv for older people not being driven to certain services for specific franchises snd IP.
It’s streaming for boomers basically
that isn't really true. it is true that product scarcity can influence people behaviour but it isn't foolproof. people do not buy everything just because it's scarce. but more importantly even if that was the case it would not mean the opposite is true. there is zero indication that abundance lead to people buying less.
secondly more options do not lower satisfaction i have no idea where you got that from. more fake options will of course lower satisfaction but that's because having 10 brands of the exact same thing is having one of that thing. if you fill your streaming service with a 100 copies of a movie but just with different names you haven't actually given any options.
I like the fact that tubi has Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and Super Sentai. It's one of the few streaming services that I've found that has all of it in its original Glory
It's hilarious that the part of Fox Disney didn't buy ended up having a streaming service that eventually overtook Disney's
I've always liked Tubi - even when it had the old logo. Their commercials are kinda funny too. They do really well at securing things that are out of print in physical media.
i watched spartacus and secret life of a callgirl on tubi, it actually has bangers. i always check up on it once in a while
"catch up on the wheel of time"
...why?
They actually have old horror movies that I haven't seen before. A treasure trove of those titles
There are a couple podcasts that I listen to the discuss older movies and I have found many of them on Tubi. I was surprised how extensive a catalog they had, and they seem to have an important role being a place to stream less popular and/ older movies that the paid streaming platforms rarely offer.
Tubi with adds is just regular tv with a golden library of action 80s films.
I think I’ll give Tubi a try, thanks! I was feeling nostalgic for a revival of an old anime that happened to be running on Disney+. For a 20 minute show I had to sit through three rounds of 3-ad advertising breaks that I couldn’t skip out off. I tapped out at the third round , nine ads total, before the show even finished up. This is for a service that I am paying for. I want to watch X-Men 97 but somehow I feel l may have same problem there as well I hope it isn’t the case.
My TV is too smart. It suggested TUBI movies; and since all my services have ads now, I didn’t even notice.
Tubi gives me the unique feeling of "how many movies can possibly exist that I have no interest in watching?"
tubi’s foreign film selection is honestly pretty awesome, that’s the main draw to the service for me personally
Without Tubi, I would have never found hidden gems like Detention (Taiwan/2019), The Legend of Hei (China/2019), and the Along with the Gods series (South Korea/2017-2018), heck, I even own some of them on DVD and Blu-ray. There is a few more that I want to mention but I’ll just point these out for now. But man, Tubi, despite being a free add supported streaming service, is like made for underrated gems, foreign films, arthouse films, and so much more. I preferred the old logo but the new one has a nice jingle to it.
I want Captain midnight to be my uncle. The cool uncle that offers and sneaks you a beer at family events.....
But then touches you weird in the garage.....you tell yourself it wasn't weird and it was probably normal.....but then puts a pinky in your butt and says thats what all the cool big boys do. I'm fine.
Cinnamon was so good. I would have paid money to watch it in the theatres.
I just watch all my dumb 70s sitcoms on Tubi. Like, that's not a growth audience, but I'm glad it's there. (And actually I'm watching Columbo right now, which is a genuinely good show and I keep hearing about it from people younger than me, and I was too young to enjoy it when it was first on.)
My favorite streaming service is Vix. Mexican telenovelas are the perfected form of drama (or melodrama) television, and Vix has an apparently unlimited supply of them. I also realized after watching them that I like having commercials. Good commercials are micro-films that really test the limits of story-telling, which I like.
Never heard of Tubi.
One thing ive seen people talk about is the huge collection of old B movies low budgets, tight shooting schedules, formulaic scripts, relatively short running times, and minimal production design. But make a night out of which cheesey movie should we watch first
I've now been alive so long that someone saying having a flip phone is "fresh". I feel like I just aged 40 years.
Tubi is clutch. There's always something entertaining. And I'll argue that the documentary section is the best in streaming.
My two Dads, Superman, The Conners and Gotham. My favorites. 😊
At times, tubi can be a public bathroom with a lot of slop but has good gems. Horror, foreign flicks , cartoons. I even watched some canceled shows that I never caught. Tubi is an underdog.
The several classic or obscure cartoons keeps my interest.
Tubi is great. Its ads are less aggressive than the ad supported versions of the paid steamers and it's got a really diverse selection of things you don't find elsewhere.