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Netflix also has lots of detailed data about what kind of ingredients people want in their sausage. Would make sense for them to start being quite specific wit
by jpalomaki 7y ago
Netflix also has lots of detailed data about what kind of ingredients people want in their sausage.
Would make sense for them to start being quite specific with the suppliers what they want to get.
This is not just on high level. You could track on individual episodes and even inside episodes (for example do you pause, switch to another app).
- holy_city 7y agoThe "ingredients" in this analogy are mostly human capital/contractors and locations used in pre/production/post. For example, Netflix doesn't really have the ability to see how much the choice of caterer on set influences their churn. That's contrived, but I hope it illustrates the point. There are dozens to hundreds of these contractors who work on serious productions, and some studios are more integrated than others when it comes to hiring them for different phases of the process. And the sheer amount of real estate and personnel involved in these ecosystems is beyond what Netflix is capable of exploiting today. And while Netflix is uniquely capable of collecting some extremely useful data (which they guard like the crown jewels), I'm not aware of them getting granular with production pipelines to see how changes influence their revenue. And if they were, I'd be skeptical given the amount of variance, since every production is different despite massive efforts to standardize the process. It's a very human problem domain.
- andreilys 7y agoNetflix is in fact getting quite granular with production pipelines, as evidenced by this blog post - https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/studio-production-data-science-646ee2cc21a1 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/studio-production-data-s...