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My takeaway from Birdbox is the old adage: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." Su
by jVinc 8y ago
My takeaway from Birdbox is the old adage: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."
Sure it got tons of views because of all the advertisement and the tons of focus on viral media advertisement on every single platform. But the reaction from people watching it before me when asked if it was good was "Well I mean, I did watch it to the end, but i wouldn't call it good". Personally I didn't care for it. It was a huge and expensive stunt by Netflix to show that they could game viewer numbers for a one-shot thing. And I get that this is an important thing for them to do, but it's in no way sustainable or valuable either to them or their viewers.
If they did more stunts like bird-box throughout the year, most would quickly start to completely ignore them with an attitude of "Oh sure I head about X, and it's "blowing up on facebook" but that's always the case with Netflix focus pieces, they aren't worth watching though."
- x3tm 8y agoFew people complain about google's curated search results though or facebook news recommendations (or whatever they are called, I dont have facebook I just read about their algorithm some time ago). edit: typo.
- misterprime 8y agoFor me it was: "Cool, this is some decent new content from something I was already paying for." Perhaps if I wasn't already a subscriber and the social media hype led me to subscribe I would be disappointed, but for an existing subscriber? I'll keep my auto-renew going.
- bilbo0s 8y agoThis is so true it hurts. It's like you're a mirror of myself: Price going up? mmm... I don't know if I want to pay that... Wait... What? Decent new content? Well, guess I won't unsubscribe. Still cheaper than cable!!!
- AdrianB1 8y agoFor me, it was the time to ask myself seriously if I should cancel the subscription. The "decent new content" is subjectively mediocre and most of what I see in the catalog is mediocre or worse. I have just 3 TV series I enjoyed in the past year, 2 are British weird stuff and one is Altered Carbon, all were ok, nothing great.
- PretzelFisch 8y ago>" And I get that this is an important thing for them to do, but it's in no way sustainable or valuable either to them or their viewers." If you were a director, would you sign with netflix after seeing those view numbers? If this helps Netflix get high quality creative talent then I think that is a value to the subscribers.