Netflix Sees Overseas Losses Doubling To $118 Million This Quarter
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) expects overseas losses to double in just three months, as it spends more and more on vital local video content and mar… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Analysts ‘Bullish’ Again
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) stock jumped over 20 percent, with a number of equity analysts bumping up the movie rental company’s price target follo… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix tops 800+ devices, tablets overtake PC viewing
Netflix can now be watched on more than 800 devices, and some of them are starting to gain more traction than others. Apple TV, for instance, has been really successful for the company — and tablets are starting to attract more usage than PCs. Read more »
Netflix’s Hastings: ‘We’re Done Promoting Our DVD Service’
It won’t happen as fast as you can say Qwikster, but Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) plans to slowly edge its way out of the DVD rental business. Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Rebounds in Q4, Recovers Most Of Its Lost Subs
Rebounding from the subscriber losses and investor dissonance that troubled it last fall, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) reported better than expected… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix: No plans for games, but 3-D streaming possible
Netflix may have had plans to expand into the rental market for video games when it tried to spin off its physical disc business last summer, but those plans are now canned. Instead, it may start delivering 3-D movies to its streaming subscribers. Read more »
What To Expect From Netflix Today
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will report its Q4 ’11 earnings later today, but whereas I’ve taken stands in past quarters about subscriber acquisitio… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix streaming users now outnumber DVD subscribers 2:1
Netflix now has close to twice as many streaming subscribers than DVD subscribers, according to its most recent financial statement. And with DVDs declining rapidly, the company has to look elsewhere to finance any further international expansion. Plans to go abroad are completely nixed for 2012. Read more »
Netflix’s UK Moneyball Scores Yonks-Old Fremantle Fare
The latest addition to Netflix’s UK and Ireland content lineup is 115 hours of archive FremantleMedia Enterprises comedy and drama. Read more at paidContent »
Analyst To Studios: It’s Time To Force Early VOD On Theater Chains
With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, B… Read more at paidContent »
Carriers Have Only Around 100 Million Pay-TV Users, Less Than 60% Via IPTV
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Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, includin… Read more at paidContent »
New Video, Cinedigm Form Digital Film Distribution Alliance
The struggling independent film sector believes it has stumbled onto an effective release strategy, combining various forms of online and ca… Read more at paidContent »
Longtime Netflix Marketing Chief Leslie Kilgore Bumped To The Board
In a move that seems designed to shore up confidence in its communications skills following the Qwikster and price-hike debacle, longtime Ne… Read more at paidContent »
After a rough six months, Netflix marketing chief steps down
After a tumultuous year for Netflix, long-time Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Kilgore will be stepping down from her role with the company. In her place, Netflix has named Jessie Becker as its interim Chief Marketing Officer and appointed Jonathan Friedland as the company’s Chief Communications Officer. Read more »
Social Media Gets Stickier: Twitter/Summify; Facebook/Apps, Video Too?
This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them l… Read more at paidContent »
Subscriber Content
Amazon’s DynamoDB: rattling the cloud market
DynamoDB, AWS’ latest effort to rock the technology establishment, has many implications for other players in the big data and cloud computing markets. A new GigaOM Pro research note examines just who is affected, and how. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Subscriber Content
Q4 Wrap-up: SOPA and the future of digital content
From SOPA to Microsoft’s expanded Xbox live platform to cloud-based content storage from Apple and Google, the fourth quarter in consumer electronics and media was all about the continued battle for digital living room dominance. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Forget SOPA: Hollywood And Silicon Valley Make Up At Sundance
The legislative battle over SOPA highlights the cultural rift between Hollywood and Silicon Valley but one place where the two tribes seem t… Read more at paidContent »
Lovefilm lands on LG, Roku up next
U.K. Netflix clone Lovefilm just announced an app for LG’s smart TV’s, and the company is also getting ready to launch on Roku’s media streamer once the device becomes available to Britons. Details on the Roku app are scarce, but it could launch in early February. Read more »
Netflix Hit With Class Action Suit By Angry Investors
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has been hit with a class-action suit by a group of disgruntled investors who claim the online movie-rental chain withh… Read more at paidContent »
Why UltraViolet Produced More Questions Than Answers At CES
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A… Read more at paidContent »
Why you’ll buy a new TV in the next 5 years
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how consumers will soon be buying more TVs, and upgrading them ever faster. After seeing the best that CE manufacturers had in store at CES, I’m even more convinced. But not for the reasons you might think. Read more »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix, Hulu and the golden age of content
Hulu is launching its first original scripted show just days before Netflix will unveil its first stab at an original TV show. Both companies are part of a bigger movement toward original online programming that includes new ways of funding as well as distribution. Read more »
Hulu in ’11: $420MM revenue, 1.5M paying subscribers
Hulu made $420 million in 2011, and is expected to pay $500 million to rights holders this year alone. The service now has 1.5 million paying subscribers, and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar projects that Plus will account for more than half of Hulu’s revenue this year. Read more »
After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more at paidContent »
How P2P could save the set-top box by improving VOD
Netflix dominates the business of streaming movies and television into consumers’ homes, but a new business model developed by big data firm Opera Solutions could help give cable companies the inside track. The model is combination of peer-to-peer networking via set-top boxes and big data algortihms. Read more »
Ultraviolet Movement Picks Up New Backer: Samsung
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more at paidContent »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon, Samsung throw UltraViolet a lifeline
Hollywood’s UltraViolet initiative might not have gotten off to a great start. But things are looking up, as it’s added Amazon as a partner, and Samsung Blu-ray players will now let consumers add DVDs they’ve already purchased to their UltraViolet digital rights lockers. Read more »
Cord Cutters: Netgear’s NeoTV reviewed
Netgear is trying to compete with Roku, Apple TV and Boxee with its own streaming media player. The NeoTV has a few hundred apps, including Vudu, Netflix and YouTube, but lacks local playback capability and Hulu Plus. Should you buy it? Check out our review. Read more »
Roku players go up for sale in U.K., Ireland
Roku is starting to sell its Roku LT and Roku 2 XS players in the U.K. and Ireland. The company is hoping to cash in on the launch of Netflix in both countries earlier this week, and possibly make up for weaker-than-expected sales last year. Read more »
Interview Part 2: Netflix's Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent the company has emerged from the “pain” of a consumer and investor backlash, after… Read more at paidContent »
Interview Part 1: Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more at paidContent »
Dish’s Blockbuster @Home now streams 25,000 titles
Dish first announced its Blockbuster subscription streaming service three months ago. In that time, it’s been quietly ramping up the amount of content its subscribers can access through the service, boosting the number of choices from just 4,000 streaming titles at launch to more than 25,000 now. Read more »
Netflix is about to discover that Britain bites back
Netflix wants to recover from a disastrous few months by launching in the U.K. and Ireland — but the company will have to overcome many obstacles to achieve success, not least competition from broadcasters who have very different priorities from their American counterparts. Read more »
Netflix makes it official, launches in U.K. and Ireland
Now it’s official: Netflix launched in the U.K. and Ireland Monday morning, promising to bring unlimited streaming of popular movies and TV shows through PCs as well as connected and mobile devices to both countries. But for Brits, Netflix isn’t the only choice. Read more »
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon's Lovefilm
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more at paidContent »
What Warner Bros.’ 8-week DVD window really means
A lot has been made of Warner Bros. and its new eight-week window for DVD rental firms. But the new window is unlikely to change much for companies like Netflix, Redbox or Blockbuster. While Netflix users will wait longer, Blockbuster and Redbox users likely won’t. Read more »
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more at paidContent »
