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Did Showtime Benefit By Giving Away Free Content?

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Did Showtime Benefit By Giving Away Free Content?

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Here is yet another example of how “free” can co-exist with paid content, even when the content is basically identical. Recently, Showtime made the season premiers of their hit shows DEXTER and CALIFORNICATION on YouTube for anyone to watch for free. So, did this gut their numbers when the shows aired on their subscription-only, kind of expensive if you ask me, premium cable network? Both Dexter and Californication scored some huge opening numbers last Sunday with Dexter setting a new opening record for the cable network. More than 1.5 million sets of eyeballs tuned to the season four opener for Dexter and 821,000 stayed to watch the opener for Californication. That’s 3 million single eyeballs for Dexter and more than 1.6 million for Californication. Guess not. Crossposted from MyMediaMusings David Title is an expert at the Insight Community. To get insight and analysis from David Title and other experts on challenges your company faces, click here. 22 Comments | Leave a Comment..