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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may have missed the real reason why U.S. subscriber numbers plunged
how about the pedo content being recognized….Anyone…anyone?..nahhh anything but that.
they have always lied since day one-even the story about how it was founded: he said it was because he returned a copy of Apollo 13 late and suddenly had this 'epiphany' about the disc mail order biz with no late-fee's, ALL 100% BULLSHIT.
Consumers turn to a trusted source when they don’t know what to watch on their streaming service
New research on how consumers react when they don’t know what to watch on their video-streaming service could help explain why Netflix is losing subscribers.
Netflix’s NFLX, -1.05% second-quarter earnings report Wednesday revealed fewer new subscribers than expected. But Nielsen’s analysis on viewing habits might help explain what consumers have been doing if they haven’t been buying Netflix subscriptions of late.
The company said it added 2.7 million subscribers across the globe in the second quarter. The company had predicted it would add nearly twice that (5 million subscribers) and analysts were disappointed. The company also lost 126,000 subscribers in the U.S. in the second quarter, the first such loss since 2011.
That sent Netflix’s stock tumbling. Netflix shares dropped more than 10% Thursday. (Netflix did not respond to a request for comment on this story.)
“We think Q2’s content slate drove less growth in paid net adds than we anticipated,” Netflix executives said in a letter to shareholders this week. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that would be a focus in the third quarter, and said the third series of “Stranger Things” had already broken records.
Some 40.7 million household accounts have been watching the show since its July 4 global launch, the company said on Twitter TWTR, -0.98% — “more than any other film or series in its first four days. And 18.2 million have already finished the entire season.”
But Nielsen has another, perhaps more troubling, theory that goes beyond other streaming competition from shows on Hulu, Disney DIS, -0.40% CBS CBS, +0.02% and Amazon: When there’s just too much video streaming content to choose from, viewers turn to a trusty old friend: broadcast television.
If video streaming subscribers don’t know what they want to watch, they’re almost twice as likely to tune into their favorite broadcast television channel (58%) rather than browse through the menus of their streaming services (33%), according to the research from Nielsen.
Streaming service recommendations do not appear to carry much weight either — 44% of polled viewers said they would scan through television channels to decide what to watch, while 26% said they watch shows recommended by their subscription service.
When viewers are indecisive, the preference for television is stronger within the 35 to 49-year-old demographic, compared to viewers between the ages of 18 and 34.
Subscriptions like Netflix and Amazon Prime offer plenty of critically-acclaimed, award-winning content. But the thing is, viewers have to pick which movies and series they’ll watch, and observers say many are getting burned out from all that decision-making.
In addition to its rotating library of existing feature movies and TV shows like “Friends,” Netflix has ramped up creation of its own content, releasing some 1,500 hours of original series and movies in 2018, by one estimate. Viewers between age 18 and 34 spent 9.4 minutes browsing through content. Viewers age 35 to 49 spent 8.4 minutes.
Research by behavioral psychologists has shown that too many choices can overwhelm consumers, create the unpleasant feeling known as “decision fatigue” and sometimes leading them to shut down and walk away from a potential purchase.
Television viewers also need to choose what channel to watch. Yet part of the allure might be how television just beams whatever’s on the channel instead presenting viewers with even more options on what to watch.
2018 marked the first time ever that there were online video subscriptions than cable subscriptions across the country, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. There were 613.3 million streaming subscriptions globally, and 556 million cable television subscriptions, the organization said.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-too-much-content-could-be-hurting-netflixs-subscriber-numbers-2019-07-19
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX?p=NFLX&.tsrc=fin-srch
BTW shorts, put holders getting annihilated in Crowdstrike today
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CRWD?p=CRWD&.tsrc=fin-tre-srch
do "man-cave"
don't you ever get tired of being a huge cum sock?
we've all been the guy under the chair at one point.
have that one too, somewhere. oldskool chan.
and then they used it against everyone so it got where some go..waiting until people forgot.
CEO Of World's Largest Asset Manager: "The ECB Will Buy Stocks"
Three weeks ago, when previewing the restart of the ECB's monetary easing in the form of even more negative rates and further QE - which just like the Fed's rate cut and subsequent ZIRP, NIRP and QE is now inevitable - Goldman laid out three potential "bundles" which Mario Draghi could unveil as one of his last pre-retirement acts, depending on just how severe the ECB perceives Europe's economic slowdown. There were as follows:
First, a “small” program which includes a 10bp deposit rate cut and corporate purchases (scaled to EUR 5bn per month for six months).
Second, Goldman constructs a “medium” package which includes a 20bp rate cut with tiering, somewhat stronger forward guidance, corporate purchases (EUR 5bn per month for nine months) and limited sovereign purchases (EUR 25bn per month for nine months).
Third, the bank considers a “large” package that contains more aggressive sovereign purchases (scaled to EUR 75bn per month for twelve months) via an increase in the issuer limit, in addition to the other elements in the medium package.
In retrospect, it appears at least one major asset class was missing.
Stocks.
To be sure, it's hardly a novel idea: back in 2016, Reuters first floated an ECB trial balloon that the central bank "may soon be forced to follow the Bank of Japan’s example and buy equities as part of any expanded stimulus programme," even as it faces significant hurdles in helping all 19 euro zone members equally without distorting a key market for investors.
Citing analysts, Reuters noted that Draghi, and soon Lagarde, will have to pursue alternative options to loosen policy further to lift growth and inflation across the bloc: "Analysts say these could include large-scale share buying, a policy that the BOJ has already adopted after it started purchasing equity exchange traded funds (ETFs) for its own quantitative easing scheme six years ago."
Now, none other than the head of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, has chimed in on this, and in his view the Japanification of Europe is almost complete, and that the ECB - as so many have speculated - will have no choice but to buy stocks to stimulate Europe's slowing economy.
Fink, who back in April correctly predicted a broad market "melt up" - which was driven entirely by the Fed's pathetic capitulation to Trump and its suggestion that it would cut several times in the coming year - appeared on CNBC this morning to make the case that the next European QE would also include stocks.
"55% of all European debt has a negative yield. I'm going to stick my foot out again: if the ECB is really going to try to restimulate the economy in Europe, they're going to have to buy equities just like the Bank of Japan has done", Fink told CNBC.
At least Fink whose business is all about higher stock prices, admits - unlike Dragh, - that this would be game over for capital markets: "Most monetarists would say that's terrible." And they woudl be right. However, at this point it is too late to change the outcome: "I believe that negative returns harm the economy" Fink concluded, and every European bank agrees with him.
The ECB will need to buy stocks in order to stimulate Europe's economy, says $BLK CEO Larry Fink pic.twitter.com/uB2DUhUEbS
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) July 19, 2019
Which begs the question - when will there finally be a rebellion to the catastrophic, destructive and idiotic policies of central bankers that we have been raging against for the past decade?
The answer - never, because what is coming next is MMT, and wholesale money printing for the entire world, as the status quo makes a last ditch attempt to hyper-reflate and extend and pretend for at least a few more years before the entire financial system, and western way of life, comes crashing down.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-19/ceo-worlds-largest-asset-manager-ecb-will-buy-stocks
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/db/institutional-holdings
this is just a polite way to say we have to have them buy Douche bank equity and all their shitty over-valued "assets".
This the trial balloon for that.
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Deutsche Bank Gives Investor Cerberus Hands-On Role in Overhaul
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-10/deutsche-bank-hires
-cerberus-for-support-in-overhaul-of-lender
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