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Netflix says it single-handedly increased Mad Men audience by one million

Mark Raby, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

The most recent season premiere for the AMC series Mad Men brought in a whopping 3.5 million viewers. That's not too shabby for a basic cable show, especially when you compare it to last year's season opener. That episode pulled in around 2.3 million viewers. So what's the reason behind that explosive growth? If you believe Ted Sarandos, then it's almost exclusively thanks to Netflix. Read The Full Story

Verizon Viewdini aggregates Netflix, Hulu, Comcast into one app

Mark Raby, May 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Verizon is launching a way for it to both boast about the capabilities of its high-speed 4G LTE network and to make one of the most popular Web activities go through its unified service. The service in question is called Viewdini, and it will allow users to stream Hulu Plus, Netflix, Comcast Xfinity, and mSpot content all within the confines of one platform. CEO Dan Mead made the announcement at an event this week. Read The Full Story

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Why Apple Will Eventually Kill Netflix

Don Reisinger, May 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

I remember a time when Netflix was special. The company was delivering innovative ideas to the marketplace, it fully understood its customers, and its management was in tune with the changing market dynamics. Netflix was, just last year, in fact, a tech giant.

But after increasing how much it charges customers for access to its rentals and its streaming, and watching its content partners turn their backs on it unless it paid up, everything has changed. Now, Netflix is a shadow of its former self, and a company that, as far as I’m concerned, could very well be on its way to outright obsolescence.

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Banned “Tax the Rich” TED Talk slides and text here

Chris Burns, May 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

For those of you wondering if there’s ever a TED Talk that presents an idea too controversial for the group to publish it, there definitely is, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was the one to make it. What we’ve got here is the full text of the TED Talks presentation Hanauer made at the March TED University conference as well as the full set of slides he presented at the conference. We do not have the video for this TED Talk because TED officials have decided not to publish it, not streaming, not for download, and certainly not for consumption on Netflix or your iPad app.

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Netflix says one third of new customers are old customers

Shane McGlaun, May 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Netflix has had a rough road over the last year or so when it split streaming and DVD rental into two services and raised prices. That move led to a large defection of customers who canceled their service out of anger. It appears that many of those customers are now returning to the streaming service according to a Netflix executive. Read The Full Story

Netflix Web-based video player gets massive redesign

Mark Raby, May 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're like me, you remember the day that Netflix's streaming video service first launched. And at that time, you would shut off the TV and spend hours watching movies and TV shows on your computer. Now, though, there are millions of people who no doubt have a Netflix streaming subscription and have never even watched any content from the confines of their computer. Read The Full Story

Netflix customer satisfaction on the rise

Mark Raby, May 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

After Netflix completely shot itself in the foot and announced to the entire world, "We take all of our paying subscribers for granted," the company seems to have played its game of damage control fairly well, as the level of satisfaction that customers have for the streaming service has now gone up from where it was at the end of last year. This is according to the results from analytics group Forsee's annual Top 100 E-Trail Satisfaction Index. Read The Full Story

Dish Network: AMC devalued itself by going to Netflix

Mark Raby, May 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're a Dish Network subscriber, you may be all too familiar with the repeated threats that the cable channel AMC might be dropped from its lineup. Of course, pay TV operators and content providers go through this song and dance every time a new contract is up for renewal. But this may be the first time we've heard such a blunt argument as for why the cable operator isn't willing to pay a lot of money for a network - because Netflix is making the network worth less. Read The Full Story

Viacom, yet again, dismisses Netflix impact on Nickelodeon

Mark Raby, May 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

During its most recent quarterly earnings call, Viacom was met with the question of how Nickelodeon's ratings have experienced steep and seemingly inexplicable ratings drops. Inexplicable, that is, unless you think about Netflix and the fact that it is ramping up its children programming. Last month, a study revealed that homes with Netflix or other streaming platforms have shown declines in children's TV viewership. Read The Full Story

Netflix believed to be working on ‘Jericho’ revival

Mark Raby, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Netflix is reportedly in discussions to bring the TV show Jericho back to life. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then you know the reason why the CBS show Jericho was canceled in the first place. But if you suddenly got a feeling of excitement, then you're probably part of the cult following of the show, and it is that fervent passion that is inspiring Netflix to resurrect the series. Read The Full Story

Amazon to produce original TV shows for Prime Instant Video

Shane McGlaun, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Streaming video has become big business and competition seems to be increasing all the time. The big companies in the video streaming market are Netflix and Hulu, but these two firms will have competition from Amazon soon. Amazon has announced that it intends to create its own original programming for its Amazon Prime Instant Video service. Read The Full Story

Netflix believed to be hurting Nickelodeon

Mark Raby, Apr 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Despite Viacom's assertions that streaming video site Netflix is doing nothing to hurt its Nickelodeon cable channel, the firm Bernstein Research says it has "hard data" to show otherwise. There is no argument that streaming media has had an impact on traditional video distribution channels. There have been studies to show significant numbers of people are actually cutting the cord for Hulu and Netflix. Read The Full Story