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Netflix vs Blockbuster - The Way We Watch
Season 1 Episode 7
Netflix goes from being a streaming company to a movement in which consumers all over the world decide what show to watch -- and when and how they watch them. The future that Reed Hastings and Marc R…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Binge
Season 1 Episode 6
Hollywood execs thought Netflix was crazy to give up advertising and spin off opportunities by letting viewers flop on a couch and watch a whole season of a show all at once. But Netflix knew it was …
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
Netflix vs Blockbuster - HBO Gets In The Ring
Season 1 Episode 5
We take a step back to explore how a little company called Home Box Office went from serving B-movies to 325 homes in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania to become the juggernaut that we know as HBO. In the p…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
Netflix vs Blockbuster - The Digital Divide
Season 1 Episode 4
You know that expression “content is king”? Well it turns out, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s a hard-working algorithm that burrows into customer habits and viewing patterns. With that, Netflix h…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Dirty Tricks
Season 1 Episode 3
Thinking like your enemy is the best way to beat them, and during the war, Blockbuster tried every trick in the books to get inside Netflix. Sometimes they succeeded - sending “housewives” into wareh…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Origins
Season 1 Episode 2
After Hastings pleaded with Antioco to buy Blockbuster Online, Antioco agreed to present Hasting’s proposal to the board. What he didn’t tell him was that he was pushing the board to reject the offer…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Sudden Death
Season 1 Episode 1
This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.
It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician fri…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
Introducing: Business Wars
Netflix-HBO. Nike-Adidas. Business is war. Sometimes the prize is your wallet. Sometimes your attention. Sometimes just the fun of beating the other guy. From Wondery, the network behind Dirty John a…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago