I'm not sure if I'm phrasing this right. But I've felt for the past three years Netflix's US' content has become like the Hallmark Channel for U.S. progressivism. Too sterile, too formulaic, too forced. (Or could it be the algorithm that is recommending me the same content over and over?)
I'm sure someone could come up with a "Generic Netflix TV Show" video like this one:
* Dissolve - This a Generic Millennial ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_i7oWzTyU
* Dissolve - Generic Brand Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M
I still keep the subscription for some Asian and European content though.
Until you watch the film, I couldn't possibly care what you have to say about it.
Why are you so defensive about something that wasn’t even sort of attacked?
Yes, anecdotal.
And this is after 25 years of investing in technology.
I am not sure what the lesson is. But something seems to have gone really wrong for Netflix. Not just on the content side, but also with their technology investments.
Now lots of other companies are in the marketplace to provide this and Netflix would be a late entrance.
Here's one of their famous quotes,
“We’re a team, not a family. We’re like a pro sports team, not a kid’s recreational team. Netflix leaders hire, develop and cut smartly, so we have stars in every position.”
The most obvious name one could come up with this is The Big Tech Crash which has now spread into the private start-up markets. [0][1]
As for Netflix itself, they are essentially a side-project for Disney, Apple and Amazon which after this disastrous earnings they respond by raising prices; which is a bad idea. If they don't think of something clever soon, they will be at risk of themselves being taken over.
Probably won't happen, but we'll see.
[0] https://www.ft.com/content/298baba3-83c7-45d3-8932-d811d248e...
EDIT: Non-paywalled link.
Netflix is a zombie unless they can either produce some very popular series or the government starts taking antitrust seriously and either divorces producers and distributors or forces FRAND licensing for all content.
Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.
I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear someone complaining that they have to subscribe to eight different music streaming services to hear all the popular songs. It seems the big music streaming services all have pretty much all the popular artists and you can just pick one and listen to all the hits, regardless of which label they're on.
Why isn't it this way for video content?
1. Exclusives were very expensive and not linked to growing subscribers. This is true within the other services but can be seen publicly by the failure of Tidal.
2. Frank Ocean screwed Universal Music (well played), resulting in the CEO declaring an end to exclusives [0].
[0]: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/frank-ocean-endle...
I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear someone complaining that they have to subscribe to eight different music streaming services to hear all the popular songs. It seems the big music streaming services all have pretty much all the popular artists.
Why isn't it this way for video content?
You also get a lot of productions that are financed in-house. Few HBO properties are going to be available on Netflix and vice-versa. The filmmakers had no choice but sign with someone, giving them access to a particular subscriber base at the expense of the broader market.
When your boss says, "your department is super important to our company," that is effectively meaningless. I take it back; it has meaning: it means you should wonder why the boss has raised the issue at all.
