NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Handler is proud of herself for knowing when to say when. And the outspoken comedian says she knew when it was time to say goodbye […]
Netflix needs to entertain advertising — at least that’s the view on Madison Avenue. As online video viewing explodes and linear TV- watching comes under pressure, marketers are making the case that the Internet streaming video giant should drop its aversion to ads and embrace brands.
All of your binge watching is adding up, to an average of 93 minutes of Netflix viewing per day, and around 45 GB of data every month.
Exclusives
Netflix Inc. launched in France on Monday, kicking off a weeklong roll-out into six European countries, including Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. It is the online video streaming company’s biggest single International expansion yet, and one of the most risky, as it will be going up against entrenched pay TV competitors and European uneasiness with U.S. tech giants.
In what is believed to be the first SVOD deal for a broadcast series made before its premiere, Netflix has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution for the upcoming Fox drama series Gotham. Under the pact, Netflix will become the exclusive subscription video on demand home of the Warner Bros. TV-produced Batman prequel in the U.S. as well as in each of the territories in which the streaming network operates and select other territories in which it plans to launch services.
Netflix Turns Emmy Wins Into Promo Push
One of the biggest events of the TV year and one of the finest new series of the summer arrive on the small screen the next two weeks. In the past, both productions would have been on PBS. Instead, they are on Internet television — Netflix and the Maryland-based Acorn subscription service. Together, they offer a snapshot of both the way technology is radically changing the manner in which we watch TV and the extent to which a downsized PBS is melting away to nothingness except fundraisers, Ken Burns and Downton Abbey.
You can have Bill Cosby in the palm of your hand. And Jim Jefferies will tickle you at your discretion. Netflix is announcing performances by both comics and three more, […]
The comic says conversations about bringing the iconic sitcom to the streaming service are currently underway. A deal with Seinfeld could be a major coup for Netflix, especially given the increasing importance of exclusivity in the digital-steaming business.
The company that took down Blockbuster and transformed how people watch movies now eyes TV, but there’s one major threat to its long-term survival. Netflix, which makes up nearly one-third of all Internet traffic, relies on the Internet pipes ruled by such companies as Comcast and Verizon.
Netflix, beating out Amazon.com, will be the exclusive U.S. subscription video-on-demand home to the forthcoming CBS sci-fi drama Zoo, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by James Patterson.
When Breaking Bad scored three Emmy wins last fall, its showrunner, Vince Gilligan, credited Netflix for his show’s longevity and for heightening its popularity. Similarly, program execs in general have been thrilled with how streaming video services have made up for lost DVD revenue. But a little bloom is off the rose. Frustration with Netflix has set in as programmers renegotiate contract renewals (to the tune of more than $7 billion, according to some estimates).
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is expanding its empire of original content with a talk show to be hosted by Chelsea Handler. The online TV network said Thursday that the […]
Netflix has announced it will suspend the display of messages that specifically blame individual internet providers for congestion within its apps by next week. At the core of the spat is a long-running dispute about peering, with Verizon and other ISPs demanding that Netflix pays them to provide adequate peering capacity.
Netflix and Verizon are trading barbs in a spat over who’s to blame for slow streams.
The streaming company probably averages 1.8 billion viewing hours per month domestically which is “within striking distance of the broadcast networks,” BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield says today based on some new data from Netflix and his own back-of-the-envelope calculations.
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is making a push into documentaries, with the subscription service announcing deals to premiere four new films in the next few months. Netflix has always […]
