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dlr5288
6/25/2016 1:31:04 PM
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Re: Netflix down a little
I agree!
It should definitely be an option and I'm not sure why it isn't. I think it would become so much more popular if they joined up with them.
mpouraryan
6/26/2016 1:04:54 AM
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Re: Netflix down a little
As I am walking away, I am watching "West Wing' on Netflix :)
Beyond that, though, Here is one thing that should give somewhat of a heart to those who may want a "redo":
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JohnBarnes
6/26/2016 6:52:11 PM
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Re: Netflix down a little
Ariella: the "impressive amount of progress" is just an artifact of the measurement and doesn't really require an explanation. The comparison is between rankings. Netflix has a bit more than twice as much downstream traffic share as #2 YouTube (35.15 versus 17.53). The next eight in the list, beginning with Amazon Video, are all packed together between 4.3 and 1.7. So picturing a horse race, Netflix wins by many lengths, YouTube places by being between the winner and the pack behind it (though closer to the pack), and Amazon Video shows because they are at the front of a very tight pack. It's a runaway.
Rankings and shares are both dubious ways to report gains, and combining them like this makes it all nearly meaningless. Netflix is the biggest by far. Out of the non-Netflix downstream shares, YouTube has the biggest by far. Everyone else is packed up, way, way back, and maneuvers within the pack are insignficant in the overall scheme of things.
JohnBarnes
6/26/2016 6:57:33 PM
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Netflix is also benefitting from the social media cycle
Watching TV and movies is much more social than it used to be (and it was always pretty social). One reason to watch is to be able to talk about what you saw with friends/neighbors/acquaintances -- in other words, to create some traffic in your social network because traffic maintains the social network you need. If more shows are on Netflix, more people watch it because it gives you access to more conversations (and of course those conversations are where you hear about new shows). The bigger it gets, the more advantages there are to having it; the more advantages, the more people sign up.
Ariella
6/26/2016 7:28:02 PM
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Re: Netflix is also benefitting from the social media cycle
@johnbarnes the social media conversations extend even beyond real life conversations. I know that for kids in school, talk about shows in common is how some identify their groups. Adults do that less in real life (I think) but they do participate in discussions about the shows they follow online.
JohnBarnes
6/26/2016 7:40:03 PM
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Re: Netflix is also benefitting from the social media cycle
Ariella,
Yep. Time was when tribes of kids self-organized around music, or less-so comic books or some literary genres. There's now very clearly a great deal of neo-tribalism around movies and especially around ongoing shows.
(Favorite detail: several dating sites now have little binary checkboxes that are supposed to sort basic types of people: cats/dogs, thin crust/thick crust, beach/mountains, etc., and the ones that have that have begun adding Wars/Trek (the "Star" is implied)).
Ariella
6/26/2016 8:02:45 PM
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Re: Netflix is also benefitting from the social media cycle
<, and the ones that have that have begun adding Wars/Trek (the "Star" is implied)). > @JohnBarnes obvious to any sci-fi fan worthy of the name. And if you have to ask, you just don't belong.
faryl
6/28/2016 8:39:21 PM
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Re: Netflix down a little
The "West Wing" is one of my favorite "classics" to watch on Netflix - sad how many of the issues still ring true and haven't changed since it aired though :-/
mpouraryan
6/28/2016 8:41:36 PM
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Re: Netflix down a little
It is absolutely spot on and then some!!
It is probably one of the best civics lessons there is--one learns much about Government, Leadership, Transformation and Vision in the 42 Minutes of the episode than in any textbook anyday.
faryl
6/28/2016 8:57:34 PM
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Re: Netflix down a little
I think I read that Amazon discontinued selling Apple TVs recently though - so I guess that will be unlikely!
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