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Your streams are way too over-compressed IMO.
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Flash is dead. How long until you support html5?
Preview > Click Video > Flash Warning > Close Browser Tab
Maybe one day I'll be back.
optimizely.com, maxmind.com, stripe.com, and googleadservices.com.
If a service won't work without serving me up a basket of trackers and advertising scripts then I'm out.
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I wondered "Is this really legit?" and my first instinct was to click one of the newspaper icons, like to see what NYT or WSJ wrote about you—but as someone else pointed out, they're not links.
(I've actually seen landing pages that have a whole bunch of bogus newspaper badges, like it's a part of their Bootstrap theme that they didn't bother changing...)
Maybe your conversion rates are good, in which case ignore me.
But personally, I'd be way more likely to sign up if you
1. highlighted that you're a legitimate business,
2. mentioned how your founder started Discovery Channel,
3. and generally polished your landing page.
Netflix has a barebones landing page but their brand recognition is extremely high...
Once I came across the credentials of Mr Hendricks, Mr. Burns and some on the advisory board, I was 10x more likely to sign up.
The few short previews I checked out worked for me too, but I'm missing information on the makers of the content. While I know and trust the BBC, please tell me more about the the lesser-known production companies. If I like a particular producer, I would love to select from a list of all of their contributions.
PS Those pop-out boxes in the preview should be clickable.
I recommend Cosmic Front if you are into astronomy.
To the developers and guys running the site, I recommend a more legit rating system, where you can actually see what people are saying about the documentaries. Right now it seems everything has a 5 star rating which feels a little deceiving.
I guess you guys are doing it right, because I keep being interested and thinking about signing up. But for some reason I just haven't gotten around to it yet ;)
Two pieces of feedback:
* Alarm bells ring when a company says where they are mentioned in the press but fail to link to any articles.
* I really struggled to find your pricing. I saw plans starting at $2.99 but the obvious next question was: "What are the plans? How much will I actually pay?" I ended up in your Help Center before I could find an answer.
Pricing is $2.99/month for SD quality and $5.99/month for HD.
But, the "browse" page does not immediately show anything I'd really like to watch now.
This might be a problem caused by not seeing enough of a blurb to go with the title images, even when hovering, i.e. this http://imgur.com/X76fN1C
E.g. I love Hans Rosling (or James Burke, Carl Sagan, Niall Ferguson or whoever) so if I see that something is based/stars/includes their work I'd likely be interested.
This is obviously not applicable to many things though, and can be somewhat included in a description anyway.
And thanks to you for taking time to read my comments :)
But all of these are too America focused. I want to travel the world, see what lives are like for people all over the world. I can only watch so many food snob documentaries.
Current best bet is just going to youtube.com which has a wealth of documentaries.
Please someone make a non-america/europe focused indie flick site.
https://app.curiositystream.com/browse/category/society/1?ti...
All the documentaries in that link are Europe/america focused. History of western civilization is overplayed, I wan't to know more about what was happening in other parts of the world.
My experience was: 1) saw ad 2) clicked ad 3) not a clear idea about what type and calibre of documentaries you had in your library 4) didn't want to sign up to find out 5) bounced
You did a great job with 1-2 -- targeted me correctly as a potential consumer and even got me to click on an ad -- but you failed in the conversion of interest to customer.
You can check out our library here https://app.curiositystream.com/
There is a plan offering standard definition streaming called "Basic", and a plan offering high definition streaming called "Standard".
Those two words are often synonymous.
Why would you NOT link to press coverage of your money-maker?
Some of the external stuff tracking on https://app.curiositystream.com/ are:
insight.adsrvr.org googleads.g.doubleclick.net connect.facebook.net (Something recognizeable yay, but no login or sign up with facebook, then why?) www.googleadservices.com fonts.googleapis.com www.googletagmanager.com (Google stuff is to be expected) js.maxmind.com cdn.optimizely.com js.stripe.com cdn.taboola.com platform.twitter.com (Again no sign up with so why twitter?)
There is a bunch of stuff that I don´t know about or trust, so why do you need it? why should I let it run? and if your app page needs it, it´s a safe bet it will be needed if I subscribe. I don´t like the thought of that. Can you elaborate on this? I tried a bunch of combinations as to how little I could let through the page for the site to work correctly, I diden´t find a combination that worked other than, enable everything to view it normally.
1st is to track conversion coming from our ad's on those platforms.
2nd is remarket to people who visit our page. We find that many customers may visit the site once or twice before they actually convert, so we found it really effective to be able to specifically show more ad's to those people.
Just curious if you know which plugin or blocked asset might have caused that white page? We try to test with most ad blockers and privacy plugins to ensure our sites work without them. We definitely don't require them to use the site.
If you email me the logs in your browser console when the white page shows up it might help us debug it(matt.petitt@curiositystream.com). And once it's fixed if you decide to become a member I'd be happy to hook you up with a deal as a thanks for helping us out.
The fact that almost everything has a 5-star rating is kind of off-putting as it makes the ratings pretty useless.
By the way, are you the developer I was talking to sometime last year about http://fpvracing.tv and possibly doing a doco about drone racing?
We're currently brainstorming ways to have more effective feedback from users about the content. It's definitely in need of improvement.
And yes I am! I still try to poke the content guys every once in awhile to try to get involved somehow. All of us on the dev team and tech team have been following FPV racing religiously.
One suggestion: please make your app available in the Amazon app store. Some of us don't want to use Google Play.
I'm already sold on trying this out, but it seems very lacking in that department.
Comments are appreciated!
