Talk:Crackle (service)

Major Cleanup Needed

This article seems to have obvious and significant contribution from people related to the company and project it is about. It reads more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia. Added Peacock and COI banners to the top of this article, and have made massive deletions, including "content offered" section, as it is simply a list of movies and shows along with the sponsors of each, thus bearing no utility to an encyclopedia (though plenty to a commercial). Other content deleted included extraneous content from the history section, and the section about Crackle's distribution network, as they are not pertinent to an encyclopedia article. This article needs attention as a Peacock. Dpetley (talk) 04:30, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

I've done a cleanup of the introductory paragraph, stripping it back to something less grotesquely ad-like. It's a bit barebones but I've never used Crackle (it's not on offer in the UK) and didn't want to spend too long on doing it. It's a step in the right direction regardless. 92.233.215.184 (talk) 18:01, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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Well now. It looks as if Crackle is on youtube then.

"All changes to the Terms or the Privacy Policy will be effective when posted, and your continued use of the Service after the posting will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes."

Crackle TOS, article 20.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.175.155.51 (talk) 09:09, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Untitled note

Seeking advice on updating the Crackle Wikipedia page. Full disclosure: I could not be more biased, I work for the company (note the Sony IP address). Nonetheless, the page is quite outdated, particularly in its description of Crackle distribution network: Crackle now has an IOS app and an Android app, and is available on Sony Bravia TVs, ROKU set top boxes, and Playstation and Xbox gaming consoles; all of this can be cited via press articles. As an employee, is it even permissible for me to submit these updates? Or should I just wait for one of our viewers to do so? Any advice from a Wikipedian would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.84.225.10 (talk) 01:11, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Anyone like yourself who has "Conflict of Interest" should not edit the article. Another editor who has no COI may fix what needs fixing if you can provide, here on the talk page, a link to a reliable third-party published source that gives the info you feel needs be added. The other possibility is to go to the talk page of the most relevant WikiProject, and leave a note there asking to if someone in that Project is interested in adding the info, again backed up with a reliable source. Invertzoo (talk) 14:37, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Looked for information on Crackle

This arcticle aligns with the site as in there is almost no info on the site on how to use it or who can use. Not even a FAQ  or ABOUT section. It gives the impression that all you have to do is click on the content to watch. However that doesn't work. Info gleaned from this page portrays it as a subscription service that get income from commercials.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.157.139.179 (talk) 00:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC) 

Disinterested commenter here. Was simply looking for info on Crackle. The entry reads factual, has no laudatory, commercial, sales pitch, or promotional angle to it and told me what I wanted to know--what it is, who runs it, what's included. Not sure why the disclaimers are needed about potential inaccuracy, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.88.171.208 (talk) 13:12, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

What I'm curious about is what's the catch. As a PS3 owner, it seems too good to be true. Will there be a fee? How does Sony generate revenue from such a service? Which devices have it. Those are things I wish the article would contain. If someone from Sony is reading this page, you need to fire your PR people, they're doing a piss poor job of getting the word out about this service. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.79.2.203 (talk) 21:02, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

--The article implies that revenue is generated by commercials (that can't be skipped), so there is no real need to add more info.Scottrandall (talk) 13:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Possible source for this article ... Josh Felser - Recode.Net - 01/2015

I am unfamiliar with this topic but ran across the following source which appears to be a first-person account of the history of the company by the founder ... https://www.recode.net/2015/1/9/11557604/the-true-story-of-grouper-a-k-a-crackle 172.88.134.126 (talk) 02:27, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 18 September 2017

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 17:35, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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• Crackle (company) → Crackle
• Crackle → Crackle (disambiguation)

– None of the subjects on the dab page even have the name "Crackle", they have different forms of it. By far, this service is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. JE98 (talk) 23:41, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

• I had never heard of Crackle (company) before. They don't seem very primary to me, from what their Wikipedia page says. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:05, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose @JE98: please "None of the subjects on the dab page even have the name "Crackle"" is contrary to WP:DISAMBIGUATION. We disambiguate by topics (meaning content) not titles. This is guideline No.1 of disambiguation 101, everything else follows this. Also when citing WP:PRIMARYTOPIC it requires demonstrating both criteria, how the article either satisfies both or satisfies one by such a spectacular margin that the second can be waived. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:42, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose No evidence that the media company is the primary topic, and I don't think it should be considered as such, especially over Crackles which has similar (if not marginally higher) page views -- Whats new?^(talk) 07:56, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
• Strong oppose - Per WP:DETERMINEPRIMARY, Crackle the company does not have relevance for as wide a swathe of people._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 21:34, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose' - far better to keep keep general words as dabs to prevent mislinking MfortyoneA (talk) 08:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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Japanese

Being a Japanese company which uses an English word for its name, would there be any linguistic aspects to the usage of the name? For example with regard to perception. -Inowen (nlfte) 02:40, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 18 December 2019

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page to Crackle (streaming service) at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 05:15, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

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Sony Crackle → Crackle – Sony Crackle was sold to Chicken Soup for the Soul in March of 2019. Chicken Soup now owns a controlling 51% interest in the company and has rebranded it as Crackle, removing all Sony logo, copy, and imagery from their product on all platforms. The URL for the company is now www.crackle.com. Spindock1 (talk) 23:48, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose: The provided rationale is not relevant to the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC question for the existing dab page at Crackle, and also does not consider the WP:COMMONNAME question. —BarrelProof (talk) 00:11, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose move. Not the primary topic; we should look for parenthetical disambiguation instead. O.N.R. ^(talk) 13:58, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose no evidence that this is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.--69.157.252.96 (talk) 01:44, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
• Move to Crackle (streaming service): While this is not the primary topic, it has rebranded as Crackle per the website. 64222368Z260O (talk) 03:13, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. Crackle (streaming service) seems ok. Hyperbolick (talk) 15:45, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
  • We might want to consider Crackle (service), since we have Twitch (service), Origin (service) and Steam (service). I don't especially like that dab term, but consistency is desirable. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:50, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Would make more sense to move those to be consistent with the category. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:16, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose. Crackle (streaming service) In ictu oculi (talk) 09:15, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
• Move to Crackle (streaming service), as per the above. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

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Seinfeld

Apart from one footnote, Jerry Seinfeld and his show 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee' is not mentioned anywhere, especially the fact that Seinfeld leaving Crackle has had a huge negative impact on Crackle's popularity. (Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqbvsDt_D3o at 1:40). — Preceding unsigned comment added by NoWikiNoLife (talk • contribs) 08:56, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Unable to access a show I was watching

I was watching a series with Patrick Swayze called The Beast and it disappeared from the screen in the middle of the episode. I brought it up on sights search option but it won't go there and I can't find it by surfing through the pages??? Has this happened before with other shows on the sight 208.98.149.202 (talk) 02:26, 26 July 2022 (UTC)