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Recode Daily

Netflix and quarantine

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Why is Netflix the clear winner of the streaming wars right now? Plus, are we gonna run out of stuff to watch? Featuring: Peter kafka (@pkafka) Links to Resources Discussed: Netflix had the best quarter in its history because of the pandemic Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

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0:15.2

Your willpower could use a little help now and then.

0:18.1

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0:23.2

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0:25.6

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0:27.7

Stop smoking aid.

0:28.8

Requires willpower.

0:30.0

Always read the label.

0:42.0

With people around the world observing stay-at-home orders, A lot of us are just doing what we can to stay entertained.

0:46.0

And yeah, we're watching a lot of TV.

0:50.0

Even before this pandemic, though, TV networks and streaming companies were fighting for viewers.

0:57.0

You have Amazon, you have Apple, you have Disney, you have Order Media, you have Comcast, NBC.

1:05.0

I mean, literally everyone who's in the media business is belatedly now trying to create a streaming service.

1:12.0

And let's be real, there's really just one clear winner.

1:18.0

If you cooked up a company in a lab that said make a company that's going to thrive in a pandemic you would make

1:23.8

Netflix. Today on the show, Senior Recode Correspondent Peter Coffka walks me

1:30.4

through the streaming wars, pandemic edition,

1:34.0

how the pandemic has changed what we watch

1:36.6

and how the stuff that we watch gets made in the first place.

1:40.9

I'm Ariel Zimross. This is reset.

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