[continuations]

I read that Quibi does not own its content. The content creators do.

I don't understand. How could Quibi possibly spend $2B in 6 months when it doesn't even own its content. What exactly did it spend those $2B on?

[Traster]

It's more complicated than just "Does Quibi own the content"- Quibi struck deals with content creators for the creators to create the content and own it, but to give Quibi an exclusive license to the content for 2 years. So whilst it's technically true that the content creators still own the content, the vast majority of the value is in the rights to that content. They justified this as some creator friendly move, but frankly I think they knew that by 2 years time Quibi was either huge or dead.

[skinnymuch]

This basically means there’s no reason for any one to pay more than scraps for the rights to the content as they will have under 1.5 years with it.

[dylz]

Disgusting amounts of advertising and endorsements?