I love bobs burgers and lucy the daughter of the devil and home movies, but central park is not agreat show.
It's all about the momentum. What show epitomizes the current direction of Apple? Severance. What show encapsulates same for Netflix? Bridgerton. Netflix execs stated their partnership with Shonda Rimes is the most exciting thing to have happened recently. I'll take edgy scifi over costume romcom.
That show was beyond terrible. Could it have been done better? Shows like Firefly and Farscape and movies like Guardians of the Galaxy (itself largely influenced by Farscape) show that it was definitely possible. It was a poorly executed cosplay parody of the source material.
Same here. If I can't share with my daughter, I'm cutting back Netflix to 3 months per year. What's hysterical is that it's easiest to do this with Netflix, since they are a rare service that releases an entire season at once. In order to counter that, Netflix would have to start releasing one episode per week, like most other services. And THAT would piss off even the most complacent current customer to no end.
I feel that they still have THE name in streaming today, partly because they were the first. But I agree that it is a risky investment. I think they will continue to get hammered, and this will attract the attention of other companies. I think any service that doesn’t have hardware or infrastructure behind it is risky.
I sure am. I mean, I was intrigued by Cowboy Bebop. I liked the first few eps and before I could even finish the season... "CANCELLED".
I'm afraid you have a very narrow concept of marketing strategy, and market signals specifically. When 100 million customers are synthesizing a product package, it's not "stealing"; it's the company just misreading the market. Netflix bundles and price tiers are such a huge miss that people are constructing their own packaging to provide sufficient value. If Netflix cuts those options without making other options available, such as by unbundling multiple streams and quality tiers, all they are going to do is lose customers, and revenue. They will not make it up. Netflix, with their policy of binge releasing, is frankly the easiest service to cut back to cyclic subscribing. This is me talking from 30 years of product marketing strategy experience. Now, in my case, I'm a year round high quality subscriber, but if Netflix just starts cutting into my travel viewing options or bars me from gifting a streams to one of my kids, without providing other value or flexibility, I'm cutting back to 3 months per year. That would then provide me the best value. I'm sure I'm not alone. I doubt a significant number of satellite users on multi-stream accounts have the means to start signing up for their own accounts, frankly. It would not surprise me if the vast majority are either struggling young adults or barely interested secondary users just latching onto a primary.
Not that I disagree with you, but the format is here to stay. And with only 24 hours in a day, people pick and choose what content they consume. I'd say the trend is moving more to user-created than perfectly produced TV stuff. Not that movies and shows will ever go away, but I think it's fair to say Netflix is losing subs to "other platforms" -- and not just other streaming services.
Hahahahahahahahahaha……..you have to be kidding. What content…all 20 something shows…that’s not content, that’s a joke. But netflix pricing is an equal joke. Extra for 4K. That’s a rip off.
