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And Netflix is not a delivery network?
by danhak 12y ago
And Netflix is not a delivery network?
- cwyers 12y agoThey don't really want to be anymore, which is why they're spending so much money on original programming.
- Crito 12y agoEven HBO pads out their scheduling with content produced by other companies. I do not see a future where the bulk of Netflix's streamed content is produced by Netflix.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoAmazon is also at least nominally getting into entertainment production, though so far they're doing a pretty clumsy job of it.
- cwyers 12y agoAmazon does a clumsy job at a lot of things. It's incredible. Their shipping and logistics? Top notch. Their server operations, including AWS? Very good. Their website UI? Pants. Utterly pants. Using the Prime Instant website to watch video and using Netflix to watch video is like the difference between night and day. Netflix is well-organized, provides helpful recommendations, and has meaningful categories. Amazon, meanwhile, uses the exact same UI for buying books as it does for browsing streaming movies. And it uses that same UI for office supplies, groceries, clothes and caskets. (Okay, maybe not caskets.) And it's a mediocre UI for all of them. EDIT: I checked, you can totally buy caskets on Amazon. Wow.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoIs Netflix making money yet or are they taking losses to grow?
- ianferrel 12y agoNetflix has been profitable since 2003.
- adventured 12y agoNetflix was profitable for 2011, 2012, 2013. They generated $231m in net income the last four quarters (while simultaneously dramatically expanding their expenditures on content acquisition and production).