{"id":11147,"date":"2020-05-12T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2550972"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:37:00","slug":"quibi-will-add-sharing-features-as-the-app-struggles-to-find-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/quibi-will-add-sharing-features-as-the-app-struggles-to-find-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quibi will add sharing features as the app struggles to find subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Illustration by Grayson Blackmon \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

To say that Quibi is off to a disastrous start would be an understatement. Co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg attributes “everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” he told The<\/em> New York Times <\/em>in a new interview published on Monday. But Katzenberg is hopeful that rolling out new features will help, including giving subscribers the ability to share content from Quibi shows on social media.<\/p>\n

When Quibi launched at the beginning of April, the app blocked sharing to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. Now, Katzenberg and the team are working on ways to ensure Quibi is “less walled off from the internet.” People will eventually be able to share Quibi content on social media, but there’s no estimated time frame for when that feature will become available.<\/p>\n

(Disclosure: Vox Media is partnered with Quibi on two shows and there are discussions for a <\/em>Verge show in the future.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“There are a whole bunch of things we have now seen in the product that we thought we got mostly right,” Katzenberg said, “but now that there are hundreds of people on there using it, you go, ‘Uh-oh, we didn’t see that.’”<\/p>\n

People also couldn’t take screenshots inside the app. Although that restriction isn’t unique to Quibi (Netflix and Disney Plus deal with the same problem in their mobile apps), without a desktop version of the app for people to watch Quibi shows on, the only way for people to share scenes was to use another phone to record the episode playing. So that’s what people did, managing in some cases to go viral. It’s unclear if people will be able to screenshot or if Quibi will allow direct sharing of clips from the app to various social media apps. The Verge <\/em>has reached out for more information.<\/p>\n

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