Is the geek steaming marketplace getting crowded yet? Hot on the heels of the launch of COMIC-CON HQ, the joint streaming service from Comic-Con International and Lionsgate, comes word that Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist and Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry are launching their own streaming service, paid for by their corporate parent, Legendary Entertainment.
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The market of subscription video streaming services is about to become a little more crowded: Legendary Entertainment says today that it will launch a platform, called Alpha, “later in 2016” using content from its pop culture production services Nerdistand Geek & Sundry. Pricing is still being set, but could go as high as $7 a month. It will be available on desktop computers as well as iOS and “popular [streaming] devices.”
Nerdist CEO Chris Hardwick says that the partners want it to “feel like a community clubhouse. We want it to be special and have real, justifiable value for members, e.g., live event access, merch, IRL meet-ups and bonus podcasts to name a few things. Alpha is about partnering people we love to create a safe space for fandom and the people who are passionate about it.”
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For months, we’ve been toiling away in our secret lab, creating the perfect interactive platform with state-of-the-art technology that will allow YOU, our dear audience, to build a community with each other, our new original content, and of course, your favorite Nerdist and Geek & Sundry folks! Everything you watch and connect with on our new, monthly membership service will have interactive features like live video chats, polls, and dial-ins… so you can be completely immersed in our wonderfully weird world and help to shape its evolution.
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