I’m no expert but in my experience:

1. “Elite” is an elusive quality. I’ve subscribed to one service that seemed “elite” until their contact address stopped working and they went dark. Made the mistake of buying 3 months based on initial confidence. Their streams still (mostly) work for now but it’s clear this “elite” service is on its way out.
2. You won’t get many to name a so-called “elite” service on an open forum like this, for fear of everyone climbing on board and turning the “elite” service into just another overwhelmed and underresourced service provider.
3. By posting on this forum you will probably get between 2 and 10 solicitations from random providers. The only thing that seems to work is to try them — as many as you have an appetite for — and sticking with the one(s) that meet your needs. But only a month at a time! Today’s “elite” provider could be tomorrow’s roadkill.
4. Some may send you private messages recommending one or another provider. They may or may not be reliable recommendations. I’m sure everyone means to be helpful but see my earlier comment: today’s brilliant provider can quickly become just another casualty in the IPTV wars.

Its most likely marketing bullshit. Server bandwith for iptv is really expensive and you would need a good number of subscribers to cover it, so keeping it a secret would be a bad idea. There are some subs that are hard to get, like eternal and smoothstreams but its not like their existence is a secret. They just rarely take on new subscribers. Plus I didnt really see that much of a difference between smoothstreams and my regular subs. Some of the channel sources were even the same.

Take not of what Jim said below. Also those type of services are usually invite by family only, rarely allowing members to invite anyone other than their own close family. None of them will reply to you on an open sub like this.

Makes sense. Thanks

I’m a reseller myself and most of these comments are correct....word of mouth not in open forums.