Worse than ignored, ignored as a quid-pro-quo.
Netflix is becoming a giant...
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I cancelled Netflix months ago because of price increases but re-subcribed for Nov-Dec so my college age kids and I could watch the last season of Stranger Things. I will cancel again after the final episode of ST. It's not worth what they charge (to me).
Youtube Premium on the other hand, TAKE MY MONEY!
Youtube Premium on the other hand, TAKE MY MONEY!
Or when applied - applied in strange and uneven business damaging ways
DC is a gonner. Not great news for fans. My sons are upset by it. I am too, because, well, I'm Batman.
Good luck with that. I'm sure you have complete dossiers in a few places regardless of what you do.
Just wait till a Private equity firm buys them out!
That's due to the music studios trolling copyright infringement.
Avatars everywhere!!
Netflix likely buy them to counteract Disney. Finally Disney threw in the towel by running at a loss trying to drive Netflix out of business and failed. No more 99c Hulu Black Friday deal after like 5-6 years.
One of the reason Netflix is successful is the management. They had always been a "we are not a family" organization and they were always paying the best for the best people, automatically going out there to check what is the best pay for your performance and automatically give that to you without you begging for a raise. This also means when they don't need you you are gone the next day. For the best of the best software engineers they are the place to work for. I can't say the same about the people working for other streaming companies like Disney, I heard on Blind they are a mess.
Netflix will survive and if they hedge their bargaining power with a studio full of IP they should be able to stand up against Disney. Amazon is a joke on streaming, so the real battle ground would be with YouTube and Tiktok.
The Netflix with ad deal is not bad, I have it from my T Mobile and I would say it is ok compare to Disney. I still think YouTube Premium is more useful though. If you think it is expensive you can always use a VPN and stream from a 3rd world country. Most of them have English contents anyways. Or you can find a friend to share a family membership with.
One of the reason Netflix is successful is the management. They had always been a "we are not a family" organization and they were always paying the best for the best people, automatically going out there to check what is the best pay for your performance and automatically give that to you without you begging for a raise. This also means when they don't need you you are gone the next day. For the best of the best software engineers they are the place to work for. I can't say the same about the people working for other streaming companies like Disney, I heard on Blind they are a mess.
Netflix will survive and if they hedge their bargaining power with a studio full of IP they should be able to stand up against Disney. Amazon is a joke on streaming, so the real battle ground would be with YouTube and Tiktok.
The Netflix with ad deal is not bad, I have it from my T Mobile and I would say it is ok compare to Disney. I still think YouTube Premium is more useful though. If you think it is expensive you can always use a VPN and stream from a 3rd world country. Most of them have English contents anyways. Or you can find a friend to share a family membership with.
Your looking at this completely backwards. Even an idiot like me can hang a video on youtube, giving me access to 2.7 BILLION monthly active viewers. Literally the whole world at your fingertips. That is the absolute definition of competitive.
If you don't like their monetization, you can hang it on X or Spotify and put it on your own website. WWilson could monetize videos here if he wanted. Its literally never been more competitive.
There are studios all over the world now. 28 years later was filmed on iphones and grossed $150M. Anyone can make a movie now. Even the Hollywood studios are leaving Hollywood because its not competitive anymore. The only thing Hollywood makes is the 18th sequel to something from the 90's.
I find it interesting reading the Netflix technical blog. I can understand some of the networking stuff but a lot of the content on there is way beyond my grasp.
I suspect there are a lot of extremely high paying jobs for folks who have the necessary expertise.
Looks like 'not so fast' here*. The hostile takeover bid was predictable though. If I had a rooting interest in it, would be for Netflix as the lesser of two evils. Current environment and players involved, difficult to bet against the hostile bid. Best for customers/subscribers, deny both.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
They at least used to hire and pay the best, by best means better than Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, etc. They also don't play games like locking you in a stock vesting scheme and let you be at the mercy of stock price.
All cash, and a team of HR going out there looking for a better pay for you and raise your pay before you even feel you got underpaid, so you are happy and won't even bother looking.
Interesting…HR at the places I work at are on the lookout for ways to pay me less!!!
And worse yet, being gaslit that’s it’s all thanks to capitalism and free market at work.
I ditched them back in 2023. Haven't missed them. I had been with them since 2014.
Netflix is a giant because they deliver what the public wants. Simple stuff, they get their price and they have the content. There are some others (peacock, starz, apple, and to a lessor extent Paramount + and prime) that are ok but they cant get the price Netflex gets because they cant deliver the amount of consistant content. Meaning they get good movies and some good shows but much more limited and some of them REALLY blow it with the invasive constant commercials. We only get what I call "the secondaries" at bargain basement trials some as much as one year at a time.
I love to love Apple the few things they have are really good, picture and sound fantastic too. But once you see them, there is nothing else and like everyone price has gone up so only take it when offered a special price.
I love to love Apple the few things they have are really good, picture and sound fantastic too. But once you see them, there is nothing else and like everyone price has gone up so only take it when offered a special price.
They don't just try to pay their people more, they also try to find the lower performance or no longer needed people and actively fire them too. It goes both ways.Interesting…HR at the places I work at are on the lookout for ways to pay me less!!!
That's most companies. Also those who move to low cost area and then cut your pay 20%. Netflix is unique that their business models work as long as they are the smaller guy in the market trying to move upstream. If they becomes the monopoly like Motorola and Intel used to be they will get hijacked by accountants and start paying low and then focus on dividend and stock buyback, moving to low cost location etc, and then one day collapse like all those accountant ran former giants.
This is also the reason why Amazon used to only go into a major tech hub and hire only up to a fraction of the workforce there. Their business model is also to hire the better people and pay them better, then fire the lower performance one. They had to find new head quarter(s) instead of building a new major tech center and move people there like Apple did during Steve Job's era with the whole former Motorola cell phone team hired from Chicago into Cupertino.
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To be fair they could license their contents from other studios for cheap like Blockbusters or libraries did until they see Netflix as a future threat, and start charging them a lot to crush them. It is not a good idea to rely on a vendor if they see you as a competitor and want you gone.
That's why Netflix is A LOT CHEAPER if you use a VPN to stream it from a 3rd world country like, Pakistan, even if they are still the same Hollywood movies.
Thats the old Jack Welch model. 10% of your staff are highly promotable, 10% of your staff likely needs to be replaced every year for performance reasons. The 80% in the middle can move along in some normal seniority cycle.
This is why you see big companies constantly doing layoffs.
