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Two years ago, I published a video on this channel titled the number one mistake that people make after canceling cable TV
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And since then, that video has gained 600,000 views and 5,000 subscribers
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But it's also led to comments like these, which is why I regret making the video
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Let's talk about it. The most important part of the video is where I referenced the number one cord cutting mistake
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And that happens at 2 minutes and 45 seconds in. Now YouTube tells me 60% of the audience was still watching
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But that means 40% of the audience clicked off the video by this time
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Take a look. This is the portion of the video that I wish 100% of people saw
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So then why do people cancel cable, sign up for a live TV streaming service
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stay with them price hike after price hike, and never shop around to see if there's a better deal
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This is the mistake that cord cutters make after dropping cable. You are not stuck in a contract anymore, so you don't have to keep acting like it
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I made this video at a time when a lot of people were cutting the cable TV cord for the first time
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but many were not taking advantage of the flexibility that streaming offers My point was that since streaming services don have contracts the first service you sign up for doesn have to be the last and that you can start
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and stop your subscriptions to save some money. I stand by this advice, and I think it's more
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important than ever with the rising cost of streaming, but I messed up this video before
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many people could even hear that point. Here's what happened. Early on in the video, I mentioned
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a $100 a month figure for cable TV, and then I compared it to the price of YouTube TV, showing
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YouTube TV's price hikes over the years. Now, if I stopped there and went right into the number
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one mistake, I probably wouldn't have gotten the comments saying that I was comparing apples to
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oranges. But in the video, I added in the cost of several on-demand streaming services to demonstrate
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that monthly streaming costs can also sneak up on you. The problem is, I failed to clarify that
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many cable TV subscribers also subscribe to these on-demand streaming services. So people were
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correct to point that out and I am sorry for not being more clear. I've been reviewing streaming
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services since 2016 and I can tell you that cutting the cord does save money over cable
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in most cases. I think I did a better job of explaining myself in a recent video on why
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I'll never go back to cable
