Last month, Netflix announced that after first expanding to Canada and then Latin America, their long awaited launch in the United Kingdom and Ireland was official and imminent. Two weeks later, the company has announced a partnership with film studio […]
Charter Communications is taking three of the most popular streaming services- Amazon, Hulu and Netflix- and pulling them together to pool the content for subscribers on Charter.net. The mish-mash of content from the three services will increase the amount of […]
Earnings for the Discovery Network were up in the third quarter, and the bump is being credited essentially to the addition of streaming for the series of channels’ content. Yes, Netflix itself may be having a rough couple of months, […]
Despite the recession (and consistent grumbling about price increases for Netflix and then to a smaller degree, Redbox), spending on home movies in the US was up 5% in the third quarter over the same period of time last year. […]
In a sign of the changing times for television both Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com signed internet streaming deal with Walt Disney Co. over the weekend. Under the terms of their deals the two rival companies will be given permission to […]
Although Netflix is bleeding customers at a higher rate than was originally expected, the video streaming service still accounts for a huge amount of bandwidth usage in North America. Earlier this week, the 2011 Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report was released, citing Netflix […]
As Netflix deals with the fallout of tanking stock and the ensuing public relations hassles, the company is said to have cut some of its of its staff. The cuts are believed to be due to slower than expected growth […]
Netflix on Thursday announced a new four-year deal with the CW network, a partnership that will allow the streaming video provider to offer previous and new series shows to their customer base of more than 24 million subscribers. Under the […]
Netflix has officially ditched plans to spin-off their DVD-by-mail service into a new platform called Qwikster. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement on Monday while stating: “It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make […]
Say what you want about the increase in popularity of streaming video content (if you’re a naysayer and hate the newfangled equipment, or the quality, or the selection), there are some places where the advent of the services brings the […]
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You know the handling of your product launch was mishandled when Marketwatch suggests the timing and the way it was managed was an intentional mishandling to kill off a segment of your market. Was Netflix’s introduction of Qwikster so bad that […]
While Netflix has had little difficulty gaining steam in the US market- even if it hasn’t been going all too smoothly lately- the company is facing some significant hurdles to similarly entrench itself with customers to the south as it […]
Poor Netflix has gotten an all-around thrashing in recent weeks, both for jacking up rates to much user outcry as well as for their plummeting stock values as a number of subscribers quit in protest due to the rate hike. […]
Netflix isn’t making many friends lately and I’m willing to bed CEO Reed Hastings can add AOL President Tim Armstrong to his list of detractors. Speaking on the Netflix company blog over the weekend Hastings apologizes for his price hike […]
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