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"If a study came out that said deafening high-pitched noises increased conversion rates, we would all be bleeding from our ears by end of business tomorrow, rig
by chunkyks 4y ago
"If a study came out that said deafening high-pitched noises increased conversion rates, we would all be bleeding from our ears by end of business tomorrow, right?"
Netflix auto play? Is that you? You were a hateful idea, no one liked you, yet you stubbornly hung on for far too long
- _tom_ 4y agoI'm convinced that Netflix uses "number of hours watched" as a success metric. Autoplay raises that. I'd pay twice as much to watch half as much quality programming, but that would tank what they think is a positive metric.
- chunkyks 4y agoI'm pretty confident that that horrorshow was a case study in A/B testing: People can't decide what to watch and agitate over flicking through titles, so some bright spark had the idea of just starting stuff in the background to see if that helped. It did! People started watching stuff sooner! Mostly because it was so incredibly irritating that I'd start a show just to make the random autoplay cease. Of course, what it really meant was that I'd go to amazon and agonize over what to watch, but at least I was doing it at my own speed and not being harassed by noise autoplay.