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Ryan Bridge: New Zealand's fight against the big tech companies · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: You're on News Talk CB. It is twenty seven minutes
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  Speaker 1: after five. I felt bad watching those eight rounds in
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  Speaker 1: the ring with Mike Tyson de Duw. I felt bad
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  Speaker 1: for him, the fifty eight year old. What on earth
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  Speaker 1: was he doing in there? Twenty million US dollars from
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  Speaker 1: Netflix Apparently that's what they paid him. That's what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing there. His net worths about ten million. He
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  Speaker 1: went bankrupt a few years ago. Of course we went
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  Speaker 1: to prison. Was worth three hundred million. Anyway, he needed money,
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  Speaker 1: poor old Mike Tyson. And Netflix paid the other guy,
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  Speaker 1: Jake Paul forty million dollars. Gate ticket sales. Gate ticket
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  Speaker 1: sales are from AT and T Stadium brought in close
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  Speaker 1: to US eighteen million dollars and seventy thousand fans. And
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  Speaker 1: Netflix will they won the fight with sixty five million
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  Speaker 1: viewers at peak. It's part of a new strategy that
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  Speaker 1: they've got to get live sport events to their subscribers,
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  Speaker 1: including those that are paying less but getting fed ads
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  Speaker 1: on the platform. This is their clever strategy. So their
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  Speaker 1: ad supported flip platform now accounts for fifty percent of
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  Speaker 1: their new sign ups. It's grown to seventy million new
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  Speaker 1: US in newss in just two years. It's credible. These
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  Speaker 1: big tech bro Silicon Valley giant media companies, you know,
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  Speaker 1: YouTube's all of those types. They're just going from strength
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  Speaker 1: to strength, aren't they. And they're the ones that have
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  Speaker 1: our attention. There are one, two, and three most streamed
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  Speaker 1: in New Zealand and yet we here in New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: and Australia are trying to force them into news content
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  Speaker 1: deals with us. We're battling with taxpayers cash to reinvigorate
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  Speaker 1: failing state media companies to compete with these guys and
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  Speaker 1: are doomed to fail battle. We're like the fifty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old Mike Tyson who apparently nearly died before entering
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  Speaker 1: the ring. They are the annoying twenty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: new to boxing but bringing in the eyeballs Jake Paul,
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  Speaker 1: these big tech companies. So what do we need to do?
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  Speaker 1: Keep fighting, get more bloodied, get more bruised, or create
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  Speaker 1: partnerships and try and get our content to their eyeballs.
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