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Australia’s producers have called out streamers for offering “unfair” commissioning deals with “unrealistic” budgets, a study has revealed.
Screen Producers Australia’s second Commissioning Survey revealed streamers ranked the lowest in overall deal fairness across the industry.
The streamers, who have been closely assessing their work in Australia amid government plans to introduce content quotas, ranked below industry average in seven of nine categories and went backwards year-on-year in six.
SPA CEO Matthew Deaner claimed many of their business practices were akin in “fishing ‘super-trawlers,'” and were potentially “permanently damaging our screen ecosystem.”
The news comes despite the launch of high profile streamer series such as Paramount+’s well-received The Last King of the Cross and Netflix’s Heartbreak High reboot. Disney+, Prime Video and Apple TV+ are also active in the country, along with the local streamers.
The SPA survey revealed a dramatic slump in the perception streamer deals are fair, with last year’s 74% who agree they were falling to 40% when overall budgets, deliverables, terms of trade and rights retention were considered.
Free-to-air channels such as the ABC are still considered those that offer the least appropriate budgets to match expectations, but streamers dropped an alarming 24% to 65% satisfaction.
More than a third (36%) of producers reported they “had to agree to unfavorable variations to an existing deal” to a streaming deal “with no material benefits.” That’s a volte-face from the first survey last year, when only 19% said the same about streamers, which made them market leaders.
At an overall industry level, three issues emerged: overall fairness of deals, which worsened;
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