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Yeah, that doesn't sound like a smart strategy imo with their policy of always releasing full seasons and not episode by episode.Netfix have said publicly that their production policy is to produce a ton of different shows and look at which have good watch numbers within the first 2 weeks of release. Anything that doesn't measure up gets cancelled. They cannot afford to produce every show they try out, but are always looking for another Stranger Things or Squid Game. Thing is, they don't give any of the new shows time to grow an audience. If it's not an insta-viral hit, it's done.
Technically, with their strategy of looking for instant hits, they'll throw around a lot of money, end up with just very few hits (just statistically).
And when they do stumble onto a hit, their watchers can watch it all, in the span of less than a months subscription.
And they're also basically encouraging their viewers to not get attached to anything unless it explodes in popularity.
And then when they do want to watch something they can just binge and drop off.
I would imagine, with a subscription model, their strategy should be a constant stream of decent to great things. As diverse as possible, to cast the widest net.
I don't see the point in throwing so much money at trying to find very few instant hits, when they'll also be consumed by viewers very very fast, and then have not much reason to stick around.
But what do I know? Wasn't it that Netflix has been unprofitable for very many years? Are they even profitable now?
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