{"id":13149,"date":"2021-09-05T22:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2021-09-13T22:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:39:05","slug":"original-transformers-cartoons-for-free-promotion-versus-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/original-transformers-cartoons-for-free-promotion-versus-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Transformers Cartoons for Free Promotion Versus Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was reading how Hasbro made the entire first generation Transformers cartoon available for free on its YouTube channel which is kind of odd as I would imagine there are still a lot of people who would actually buy videos of this cartoon since it is a pretty popular franchise.  I know people who constantly buy collector editions of sort.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1ujpoDlgRU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking where since it\u2019s so old maybe from a business perspective they get more value by offering it for free online where a younger generation can see how it all started.  At the same time, maybe all the buzz from people who grew up with it will garner more interest on the franchise for future releases such as toys and movies.<\/p>\n<p>So in that sense maybe it does make business sense to offer it for free.  It\u2019s not usually what you would think to do especially if whatever it is still generates income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was reading how Hasbro made the entire first generation Transformers cartoon available for free on its YouTube channel which is kind of odd as I would imagine there are still a lot of people who would actually buy videos of this cartoon since it is a pretty popular franchise. I know people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5953,8008,2126,8007],"class_list":["post-13149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-cartoons","tag-free","tag-transformers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trabsformer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-3q5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13151,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions\/13151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}