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Netflix Looks Beyond US as Competition Mounts

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-i-need-is-popcorn-and-12-hours dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Netflix has come a long way since it started as a mail-order DVD rental service. It has largely been responsible for dragging television into the online world and its dozens of original productions such as House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black have helped it win a huge global audience.

Last year its programming became available in another 130 countries, bringing the total to more than 190.

But Netflix faces increasing competition from online rivals such as Amazon and Hulu, while television networks start to launch their own streaming services and make new shows available in binge-ready box sets.

Sky Atlantic, for example, has made all six episodes of the new drama Guerrilla - starring Idris Elba, Freida Pinto and Babou Ceesay - available to stream, meaning viewers will not have to wait a week for their next fix.

Growth of US subscriptions, which account for almost 60% of Netflix's revenue, has also slowed.

Can Netflix conquer the Cable TV industry by re-inventing itself as what amounts to a cable company?

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  • (Score: 1) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:05AM (1 child)

    by its_gonna_be_yuge! (6454) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:05AM (#495658)

    Kodi

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:28AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:28AM (#495662) Journal

    Correction: TVAddons [torrentfreak.com].

    Streaming piracy is on the rise with popular media player Kodi at the center of attention. While Kodi itself is a neutral platform, millions of people use third-party addons to turn it into the ultimate pirate machine. TVAddons is of the largest repositories of these plugins. The site, which is also the home of FreeTelly, a custom pre-loaded version of Kodi for PC and Mac, is the go-to destination for those who want to upgrade their Kodi experience.

    Over the past year-and-a-half, interest in Kodi has skyrocketed, something that’s in large part driven by “pirate” addons. As such, TVAddons has also seen its visitor numbers shoot through the roof. The site’s latest numbers show how rapidly the platform is growing. Roughly a year ago the repository had about 10 million unique users per month, and last month this number was reached in a single day. Most of these users aren’t visiting the website. They are people checking in from their devices to see if there’s anything new. Still, the numbers are quite impressive.

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