Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, speaking at the BOA Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference, talked about TV shows vs. movies, the surprising lack of competition, and license windows for content like the Hunger Games.
When asked about the difference between TV shows and movies, Sarandos said, "The great acting and writing is being done on TV." He noted that TV has an "...incredibly high risk model," and that "Some good shows fail because they're in the wrong time slot."
Sarandos said that the most watched episode of Mad men was season 1, episode 1, and that Netflix was still driving new viewers to shows. He also said that 50,000 people watched all episodes of Season 4 of Breaking Bad in 24 hours when they became available the day before the season 5 premier.
On license windows, Sarandos said that Netflix is the pay TV home for the Hunger Games, but the release windows are: sames day as DVD for latin America, 3 months for Canada, UK 4 months, and the U.S. finally after another 90 days.
On competition: "We never thought that we'd operate without competition. We're surprised it's taken this long."
via Home Media Magazine & Deadline.
I do think they have competition in Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime, nf just happens to be better.
They also have competition with Facebook, but that's mostly for stock price disappointment.
Posted by: rjejr | September 17, 2012 at 11:44 AM
No competition for AYCW streaming entertainment is because studios are now retracting content from previous years and other companies and investors know this. Netflix knows it too, just look at the selection in the Netflix catalog and pay attention to what is getting released on released dates. No blockbusters, just older movies and TV that has less value than mainstream movies. Amazon isn't competition because a good majority of their quality content is pay per use even if You do have Amazon Prime and what they do have on the watch all you want has no closed captioning.
Posted by: Nooseman01 | September 26, 2012 at 06:59 PM