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Netflix Reports 1 Billion Hours of Viewership in June
Netflix had its best month ever this past June, with subscriber viewership reaching a billion hours of content. This breaks down to 33 million hours of video for each day of the month, and 1.4 million hours per hour.
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Blip Online Video Network Gets on the Original Programming Bandwagon
Another day, another web-based company getting into original programming production and distribution, joining the likes of Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Hulu and Crackle. Online video network Blip announces the launch of Blip Studios...
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Netflix Lures Movie-Going Non-Subscribers with $1 Movie Ticket Offer
Netflix wants non-subscribing moviegoers to give the digital platform a chance...
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Watch: $8-a-Month Netflix Subscriber Streams 252 Films in 30 Days, Miraculously Remains Married
New York-based comedian Mark Malkoff pays only $8 a month for his Netflix subscription, but he's outdone even the most disciplined 8-flix-at-a-time cinephiles with a month-long challenge he just completed. How many films can be streamed in 30 days? 252, apparently. Beginning to end, including credit...
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Report Puts Netflix Ahead of iTunes in VOD Market Share - Is the Subscription Model Taking Over? Discuss.
IHS Screen Digest put out a report Friday that claims that Netflix now tops iTunes in terms of revenue and market share in the VOD business. But as an analysis of the report at PaidContent notes, this is less of an apples-apples (pardon) competition than it seems, with substantive splits between the...
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DIRECTV Joins Netflix in the Original Series Business; Will Audiences Come?
Many companies are jumping into original production to keep their customers from falling away, from Netflix to DIRECTV. But Netflix has more to offer its subscribers at this point in the way of sophisticated taste algorithms than DIRECTV, which is ordering up its first original series, suspense thri...
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"This is a 13-hour independent movie": Eli Roth and Brian McGreevy Talk 'Hemlock Grove' on KCRW
"Hostel" director Eli Roth took to KCRW for a really interesting episode of "The Business" in which he and writer Brian McGreevy talked about their upcoming Netflix horror series "Hemlock Grove."
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'Terra Nova' Will Not Get a Second Chance as a Netflix Series
Upon canceling "Terra Nova" last month, Fox made it clear that it was shopping the series around to other networks who might be interested in taking a chance on the pricey dinosaur drama. The show did have a devoted fanbase, if not a big enough one for Fox to consider it worth bringin...
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Eli Roth Heads to Netflix With Original Series "Hemlock Grove"
The "Hostel" creator will executive produce and direct a new Gothic mystery series starring Famke Janssen.
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After Quikster Missteps, Netflix Has Recovered
There's no question that Netflix misjudged how to handle their necessary survival transition from DVD rentals to streaming. They left their customers feeling confused and betrayed during the Quikster-Netflix debacle.
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