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Mmm, I think Netflix made plenty of their own missteps in that department. They’re notorious for shutting down popular shows after a few seasons, for example. I
by draw_down 4y ago
Mmm, I think Netflix made plenty of their own missteps in that department. They’re notorious for shutting down popular shows after a few seasons, for example. I’m sure they had numbers that convinced them that was the smart thing to do, but you do that enough times and people might wonder why it’s ever worth getting into your shows.
This kind of thing comes from company culture too. I can’t speak to specifics, but presumably Disney and other studios who have been at the content game a lot longer than Netflix have a better understanding of how to cater to their customers and foster that relationship over time.
Another way to put all this is simply that it’s a lot harder to build a content business than a CDN, especially now. So the existing content biz just built CDNs.
- lordnacho 4y agoIt crossed my mind that perhaps content is actually a relationship business. You need to have a bunch of connections with the creators that goes beyond just giving them money to make a show. There's some kind of negotiation between what the artists want to make and what Disney wants to sell that requires some sort of hard-to-put-your-finger-on experience to handle. But it's not my industry, so very hard for me to anything but speculate.
- bluepizza 4y agoIndeed Netflix seems to rely too much on numbers and data to justify decisions, and to define what goes into their shows. And they ended up with a bunch of generic, disjointed, easily forgettable shows that get cut midway.
- treis 4y agoNetflix seems to be perfectly happy beating the corpse of House of Cards, Stranger Things, and Ozark for content. There's just a difference between popular and popular on the internet. Sense8 as an example was decidedly the latter.