Analyst: Netflix facing serious challenges

SweX · Feb 6, 2015

Netflix is facing two very serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, and its business may never be the same, according to Alan Wolk, contributing analyst at TDG Research.

Wolk suggests that Netflix has become the poster child for how successfully to challenge — and change — the television industry. “It has built its success with a content strategy that involves innovative original programming mixed with a much larger base of older network shows (we used to call them ‘reruns’),” he advises.

“But that may all be about to change,” he warns, suggesting that the two challenges it faces are serious. “The first challenge that Netflix is facing is the more immediate of the two: that is, the networks from which Netflix has procured content rights for the past few years may no longer want to play ball. The TV networks have come to realise that selling Netflix the rights to their older shows is no longer in their best interest. It made sense at first — Netflix was mostly buying up older seasons of shows that weren’t yet available for syndication and paying top dollar for them,” he notes.
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Rasheed187 · Feb 12, 2015

I never understood why cable companies and movie rental companies like Blockbuster never offered such a service themselves. I'm not a big fan of Netflix, their movie database is crappy over here in Holland, and they are only available online. I prefer these type of services over the cable signal or IPTV.

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