How much do you spend for online live streams and subscriptions to pool websites per month?

[Poolhall60561]

I usually try to get the early bird special for Derby and International open. I love Pat’s work.
Unlike years ago, you not only get the live stream, but most of the recorded matches are available to rewatch.

 

[9Ballr]

I spend exactly Zero dollars on stuff like that.

 

[David in FL]

Zero

 

[Brookeland Bill]

Not one red cent.

 

[kling&allen]

I subscribe to several monthly pool organizations, Window's Open and Matchroom-dot-live. Sometimes I will buy DAZN, but it's usually on a piecemeal basis.

We have so many great live streamers in the pool worlds that offer not only good content but great discounts for yearly subscriptions. Ray Hanson's PoolActionTV offers good pool content year-round. UpState Al offers free content sometimes and will suggest donations via PayPal if folks want to do so. Then there's the pioneer in filming pool competitions, Accu-Stats. There are many others too.

With this is mine, how much do you spend on average each month for live streams, subscriptions to pool websites, and donations?

This is a blind poll, so lurkers can feel free to vote. How much on average do you spend each month on live streams, pay-per-view, and pool subscriptions?

Have you seen any comment by Matchroom on the DAZN price increase and the impact on their US viewership? There is another thread on here about Matchroom removing DAZN branding from lots of their marketing material.

 

[sciarco]

I like watching one pocket on utube,i paid in the past but always had video problems so i stopped.

 

[JusticeNJ]

If I add all the streams up, I'd guess the average is 11 - 25 a month.

I buy the Derby and International every year.
I "resume" DAZN for the MR events (though I just got the email this is going up).
I buy the occasional PPV stream for a challenge match - but not very often, maybe 1-2 events in a year. Kinda worn out on multi day long races.

Who voted for 100 a month? Is someone here really paying $1200 (or more) a year for pool streams? Kudos to you for supporting the industry - but damn that's commitment.

 

[CanadianGuy]

what's with all the zero's?

wow

is it that hard to throw a few bucks here and there to support the game?

ok i get it if you cannot afford,

for those who can, so many of the big events are as little as $20

*shakes head*

 

[Cuedup]

what's with all the zero's?

wow

is it that hard to throw a few bucks here and there to support the game?

ok i get it if you cannot afford,

for those who can, so many of the big events are as little as $20

*shakes head*

Honest question.

How does paying streamers support the game of pool?

 

[Bob Jewett]

I'm in the $10 area for MR.live and the occasional DAZN month. It's nice for the heirs of the skinflints that they are so frugal.

Generally I support events by going to them.

Bob <-- posting from the Rio

 

[KissedOut]

0

 

[boogieman]

YouTube.

I've purchased content in the past but, basically, when I purchase content I want to watch the content and if I can't sweat a 3 day match with 30 hours of play as it happens I want the ability to view it at my leisure.

Until then it's YouTube.

Right! If I buy a 3 day 1P match, I'd at least like to be able to watch it on demand from then on out from my account. I hate the fact that you can pay to watch an amazing set and then never see it again in your lifetime.

 

[JAM]

I was thinking voting while not logged in would have been a vote by a lurker, no biggy...

subscriptions vs. cable been a big debate in this household. If the cable keeps going up like it has, we're going to drop, get an antenna and go with what the smart TV gives via wifi internet without any scripts, I'll get by just find, there's a thing called billiards.

Have you played chinese checkers where the moves are determined by the misses and pots?

Some people who are members here may not want then names disclosed on the poll, which is why I made it a "blind poll." Lurkers are sometimes reluctant to post at all, much less vote.

 

[logical]

what's with all the zero's?

wow

is it that hard to throw a few bucks here and there to support the game?

ok i get it if you cannot afford,

for those who can, so many of the big events are as little as $20

*shakes head*

I have never been accused of being cheap, I just don't follow competitive pool or get that much out of watching it. Honestly, I find the competitive pool world, at least in North America, a bit disjointed and hard to warm up to in the way you might have a favorite NFL team, F1 driver or PGA player.I watch a little golf and racing ( although they've never tried to shame me into donating to the cause), but no basketball, football (American or what we call soccer), baseball, or pool.

 

[leto1776]

Very little. I didn’t have DAZN for pool, so I won’t count that. Currently have a monthly sub to kozoom, but that’s it. If a ppv stream comes up that I’m interested in enough, I’ll drop whatever it costs s, but it’s gonna have to be really enticing.