Netflix, price discrimination, and the Goldilocks zone Hiroo Onoda was an intelligence officer in the Japanese Imperial Army stationed in the Philippines during World War 2. Onodo… January 31, 2024
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The great streaming squeeze Earlier this month, Disney announced two important and impending changes to its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services: Starting on October… August 30, 2023
Netflix Q2 earnings: password-crackdown subscriber bump, revenue miss and ARPU decline Netflix announced its Q2 2023 earnings results yesterday: $8.2BN in revenue (up 2.7%, year-over-year) and operating profit of $1.8B for… July 20, 2023
Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown calculus Is Netflix's password crackdown a cynical cash grab? Surely it is -- and to the same extent as any revenue-accretive… June 26, 2023
Considering Netflix’s 5MM ad-supported MAU Netflix held its advertising upfront presentation to advertisers yesterday (the event was delivered virtually as a result of the WGA… May 19, 2023
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Netflix, Disney+, and the ad-supported streaming calculus Netflix introduced its ad-supported subscription tier in November of last year. Consumer response was tepid: Bloomberg reports, per leaked data,… April 5, 2023