Netflix and Chill to Netflix in Crisis | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Go to http://hellofresh.com/casket60 and use code casket60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Netflix is a streaming giant, and they were once seen as the place to go for shows, movies, and more. But now, after canceling multiple beloved programs and making it even more difficult to access their content, the king of streaming may have fallen. Will anyone rise to take its place? Or is streaming not what it used to be? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/6tkho Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Netflix, you return the action movie and my film was on your list, so they automatically sent us out.
0:08.0	Netflix from the very beginning was meant to be the downfall of cable. It was just eight bucks a
0:14.9	month for a massive selection of movies and TV shows. Back then Netflix wasn't
0:19.8	just the king of streaming. They were practically unchallenged.
0:24.0	Cable slowly started to seem obsolete while Netflix produced hit after hit,
0:28.8	the crown black mirror Russian doll and bojack horseman just to name a few.
0:33.6	There was something for everyone.
0:35.4	And better yet, you could share it with everyone too.
0:39.0	In fact, back in 17, Netflix said that Love was sharing a password.
0:43.6	They knew that partners, friends, and families shared passwords freely.
0:48.1	People went on Quora asking if it was okay if their partners' X was still on their Netflix account and how often
0:54.2	passwords floated around. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the joke that
0:58.2	there are only a handful of Netflix passwords out there and we're just all sharing
1:01.3	accounts. And Netflix was cool with this.
1:04.0	They were fine about password sharing
1:06.0	and judging from that tweet about love,
1:08.0	they actually encouraged it.
1:09.0	So what the hell happened?
1:11.0	Basically, they got competition. It's not as simple as
1:15.1	Netflix sucks and there are no more good shows but a combination of policy
1:19.2	changes, rival companies stepping up and the audience being discouraged to see their once
1:23.4	beloved programs die. Unfortunately there are some pretty concerning
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