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Netflix’s Biggest Competition Isn’t Sleep — It’s YouTube

posted by mrpg on Saturday December 15 2018, @02:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the subscribe-and-like-me! dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

VentureBeat:

Each day in India’s capital, New Delhi, hundreds of thousands of people take a quiet subway across the crowded suburbs to reach their work. The relative calm is interrupted every few minutes as the train reaches a station and an ever-growing population jostles to find a seat. Seconds later, everyone returns their attention to their smartphone screen, resuming the comedy sketch they were watching on YouTube.

More than 7,500 miles away, executives at Netflix are scrambling for new strategies to court this audience. Earlier this year, CEO Reed Hastings, who has identified sleep as the biggest competition to his service on multiple occasions, wondered out loud if the next 100 million Netflix subscribers are in India.

They probably are, but YouTube, not sleep, has already claimed them.

The story posits that YouTube is overtaking Netflix because it is more mobile-friendly.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @07:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @07:21PM (#774890)

    I just wish YouTube would stop trying to suggest to me videos I've already watched. Even when I click on the "Not Interested" -> "Tell Us Why" -> "I've already seen this video", they keep popping up.

    Apparently my interests are so outside the mainstream of YouTube watchers that it doesn't have anything else to suggest to me but the same handful of videos.

  • (Score: 1) by NateMich on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:45AM

    by NateMich (6662) on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:45AM (#775007)

    Even when I click on the "Not Interested" -> "Tell Us Why" -> "I've already seen this video", they keep popping up.

    It's almost like there isn't anyone there listening to you...