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Throughout its relatively brief history as a streaming service, Netflix has evolved its content, pretty significant.

First, it was just movies and shows from others.

Then they started making original shows, then movies, then unscripted series, game shows, comedy special, live stuff.

They weren't interested in sports and then slowly, but surely they were interested in some sports.

Forever it was the, we're better than YouTube. We don't want that non-premium stuff.

Then all of a sudden, Cocoa Mellon and Miss Rachel came to Netflix from YouTube.

And now Netflix is evolving again via two new deals.

First, it's going into the podcast business, or at least some of the video podcast from Spotify. And more specifically, a bunch of

shows produced by The Ringer, which yes, makes this very show. No, the town is not included in

this deal. I'm very upset with Craig about that. But big shows like the Bill Simmons podcast,

the rewatchables, big picture, a bunch more,

they'll all be available on video on Netflix.

And importantly, the full episodes are coming off of YouTube.

So why is this happening?

For Spotify, they get money and they get a premium distributor for the shows.

And Netflix gets a regular stream of cheap and

often topical content, the kind of programming that subscribers might turn on and leave on for

hours and hours during the day or at work. And perhaps most important, it allows both these

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