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

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

  • Zero to $10

    Votes: 45 71.4%

  • $11 to $25

    Votes: 11 17.5%

  • $26 to $50

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • $56 to $100

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • $100 and above.

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Total voters
    63
JAM

JAM

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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 mind, 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?
 
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DAZN 20$ a pop

Poolactiontv 100$ a refill whenver I get the email

The early bird Derby for 59 I think it was

No more Omega for me at the time

Think that about covers it.
 
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?
 
Haven't had cable in 15 years canceled it put up an antenna .. I watch all my pool online and mostly utube .. shout out to UpState Al really like most of his broadcasts .. keep up the good work Al
 
Patreon: Windows Open and Cue It Up
DAZN: Annual (wondering if it's done)
Matchroom.Live: Annual
PoolActionTV: Semi-annual
Omega: Sometimes if I really like the match-up
AccuStats: Derby and Intl Open (really second guessing continuing this)
 
I had a subscription to AccuStats for a bit over a year, at $14 or so a month, but I just stopped since I found myself not really watching anything from there. Honestly, due to the commentating, some of the guys they picked from NY/NJ area are pretty rough to listen to compared to the OG AccuStats guys or some other current ones like JJ or Boyes.
 
Pay for dazn but that also gets me all the NFL in Canada.
Matchroom I pay the 5$ to support even though most of the things I watch are free on their YouTube feed and they don't archive / allow replays on their website which is kind of annoying
 
I voted 11-25 range as a guess. I had the DAZN for 2-3 years and loved it. I just cancelled it though. $99 was a good deal. $250 or whatever it is now, no thanks.

Accustats I used to buy piece meal when I was home and free to watch during the Derby and (former) US Open. I've also bought a bunch of the gambling matches by the independent streamers over the years. Both of these I haven't much in a few years, just not as into watching/betting matches as I was before.
 
During Covid I was buying everything I could find but I had the time to watch, this year I didn’t even remember the Derby had started. I try to order all the one pocket but the last one I bought it and then forgot to watch. So not much lately- just too much going on.
 
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.
 
JAM said:
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?
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The poll needs an absolute zero. :)

I love doing cue sports but these days the choice is, "what's for dinner?".
 
straightline said:
The poll needs an absolute zero. :)

I love doing cue sports but these days the choice is, "what's for dinner?".
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Absolute Zero agreed. I’d rather pay to watch legit cue reviews by someone Like Dr Dave, Mark Wilson, or Keith on real world performance of a cue. I know of one member here who I legit believe will give me a true opinion of quality of construction and consistency of playability between builds and will say a cue is valuable but is not a cue a true pool player would want to play with who I will not name. I have no problem with cue collecting and understand that at one point some cues were and still can be investments but there are very few. I’m 99% sure the person I’m referencing wouldn’t have any idea that I’m referring to them. I‘ve never tried a Southwest cue but I know people who have and I swear I can’t get a real opinion but I’ve been told another builders cues play nearly spot on at a fraction of the price. PM if you know who it may be. I’d like to try one, hint they don‘t look like Southwests, they are not tributes.
 
The results of the poll so far are very telling.

When my other half and I used to go on the road to pool tournaments, I would always purchase a baseball cap, T-shirt, anything that the host or promoter was selling to support the event. You should see how many baseball caps Keith owns today. I'm not kidding when I say at least 50 and probably more. It was my way of supporting pool and the hosts/promoters. I'm a shopper, anyway, so it was fun to buy pool stuff.

I've been a member of Matchroom-dot-live when it first started, and though the Brits ban us Yanks from some snooker and pool events, the ones they do showcase are solid gold for me. I enjoy them very much.

Window's Open is my main go-to pool news outlet on Facebook. Mike, Joey, and the other Mike are fun to watch, and I have learned so much about what's going on behind the scenes as well as on the green/blue/gray baize, depending on the event. I love their podcasts and interviews.

Ray Hansen's PoolActionTV is first class all the way, and he has a pulse on pool American style. Made in the USA all the way. Because of my job, I can't watch lengthy matches, but when I can, I watch PoolActionTV. Upstate Al's coverage of pool is also another favorite of mine. His Turning Stone events are fun to sweat, and he travels all around the East Coast in my neck of the woods, so I know a lot of the players.

I read an article about the former AMC+ owner, Josh Sapan, who had some interesting things to say about cable TV vs. streaming and the direction it's going in. "The streaming side particularly—billion-plus, seven billion people on the planet, round numbers, a billion-plus who have high-speed connection ... that total broadband number across the globe is going to get well above a billion. I don’t know where it goes--two billion, three billion. So, on the streaming side, if that’s the current preferred means of consumption at the moment, either ad-supported or not, I think there's extraordinary room for growth."

Wouldn't it be nice to have a bundled pool channel offering?
 
I’d like to see Keith review cues in his opinion. It still irritates me that his Jackpot review was questioned by DeanOC haters. I have no idea if the posts are still listed, I’ve been unable to find them. It was a 300-400 dollar cue that he gave his honest opinion about and I think maybe 25-35 exist, it’s not like he was benefiting financially from his opinion. Dean could have gained but it all went the wrong way. I am curious if Keith still has the cue he was sent out of having his valued opinion. I have three and I’d love to send him one at my cost to review. 60 or 58 inch sneaky 5/16 14 piloted joint with collars. I’m keeping the maple spliced into maple 58 inch flat face unless someone else is crazy like me and has to try it. Please PM JAM if interested, sincerely Shooter08
 
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