Netflix is losing at their own game - Company Forensics

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Netflix redefined binge-watching for an entire generation.
It would reach 191 countries and have 222 million subscribers by 2022.
And now, it’s struggling to stay alive in the very same market it created.
But, how did this happen? To answer this, we must look at how it began.

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Caya

[Rudtrack]

The fact that I share my password with my parents and brother (we no longer all live together), is the only reason I still have a Netflix subscription. I personally haven't watched anything on the platform since April, but I know the people I share it with use it from time to time. But if sharing is blocked, they won't magically turn us three users into three paying subscribers. They'll turn one paying subscriber into zero

[SiriusXAim]

Netflix doesn't have competition. They are being gutted by other companies each creating a worse off streaming service with less shows on both platforms. As the market becomes fragmented, people start pirating more. Piracy looks way more appealing when one needs 5 or 6 streaming services to watrch what used to be on Netflix.

A competitive market would be that one chooses between HBO or Netflix. Not get both just so they can watch content that used to be on Netflix.

[tramenari]

Imagine if all major music production companies like Sony and Warner music create their own version of Spotify with their exclusive contracts. Spotify would also die.

[Sabundy]

This is why I will never get rid of my DVDs and Blu-rays 📀. I want to own what I like, and be able to watch it regardless of what happens to whatever online business is trendy at the moment.

[philipmurphy]

Netflix is like a lesser of evils if I was to compare the way Disney is nowadays, Then again YouTube has great content by content creators.

[CrocvsGator]

The thing that sucks is that I personally was enthralled with Netflix's original animations...and Netflix slashed their animation department.
And I get that companies in free fall can act irrationally, like I get deals take time, so they kinda can't break deals made..but still some stuff just seems asinine regardless of status. I feel dozens of finished quality shows would attract way more people than hundreds of awful unfinished ones...
And also, stop doing live action anime Netflix....just saying, nobody is winning with those.

[cdcore]

Streaming is slowing recreating cable all over again

[TheJoacojoaco]

Caya, what do you mean that Blockbuster didn’t believe in the internet since they were partnering with Enron to stream video-on-demand? This was mid-2000 when Netflix was still shipping DVDs

[JoshWilliams-mffc]

Love you’re videos. You’re a wonderful story teller

[Celis.C]

Growth must plateau at some point. Freaking out when you're a giant and you're not seeing double to triple digit growth is just stupid and investors demanding you continue such a trend are equally dumb.
Can't say I mourn the situation. I went years without Netflix and when I _did_ try it to watch an older golden series, that was about all the platform had to offer.

[maurreese]

My family discussed getting rid of Netflix once they charge for additional accounts because that is the main reason we kept the service.

[AirQuotes]

Their constant cancellation of shows really pisses me off and has made me seriously consider leaving. Other platforms have better content more and more Netflix is the easiest to use which us why I don't think they'll die

[thefoolishhiker]

You really do a great job on these forensic documentaries.

[AtomicBuffalo]

As I watched this video I kept waiting for the insight to rise out of the overly reductive and randomly selective history of Netflix, and the insight never came. This is a surprisingly slapdash effort for this channel.

[basdfgwe]

I've had Netflix for a number of years, I ditched it last year to try other services. I've now ditched those services and have returned to Netflix.

[lenavablack]

Netflix needs to stop the streaming game and just become another entertainment producer No one's gonna win the streaming war and "IF" there is a winner leave them alone.

[dopemusic]

Bro your fabulous hair needs it's own episode.

[LegitBacKdrNiNJa]

Once sharing passwords stops ill just build a NAS for my tech illiterate parents and siblings.
4 households getting 1-2 services and sharing with the others is great.
If it becomes 4 house holds each having to buy 7 services, the cost analyst of spending ~ $1000 for two Plex Nases and the effort to build a library becomes a small cost than the massive service cost.

[ninehundreddollarluxuryyac]

I had Netflix for years but unsubscribed recently. Their front page sucks. It suggests the same movies over and over. They had plenty of movies that I would like to have watched but I didn't know those were on Netflix until after I unsubscribed. I did not re-subscribe because they are doing nothing to fix the front page, leaving the site on autopilot.

[idkforgot]

Netflix should just cast Depp in a random pirate story.