Its the recent phenomenon that captured America by storm, it is what 95% of college students are doing right now, and it is why children under the age of 4 are going to ask “what television was for” when they grow up, it is Netflix.
This new fad is a company that provides subscribers a platform for on
demand Internet streaming for movies and television shows. It also has the much
less used DVD mail rental service, all for less than ten dollars a month. Forbes
listed it as 30th in its most innovative companies list. According
to Wikipedia the company was established in 1999 and approximately ten years
later it had ten million subscribers and offered over one hundred thousand
titles. Then by 2013 is more than tripled its amount of subscribers.
Netflix didn’t stop there; I suppose the company got tiered
of just being the medium to films and television programming. That is why in
March of 2011 Netflix began producing its own original content to be premiered
strictly off of Netflix. Netflix now streams a plethora of “Netflix originals”
as well as rebooting and continuing other series, which it bought the rights to
such as:
- · House of Cards
- · Arrested Development
- · Hemlock grove
- · Orange is the New Black
- · Lilyhammer
- · Knights of Sidonia
- · Love
- · Derek
Netflix is also planning to team
up with larger studios such as DreamWorks Animation and Disney to release new
series based off of existing shows or franchises. Netflix was nominated for and
won a Golden Globe award for its original series “House of Cards” and just this
year its original document “The Square” was nominated for an academy
award.
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