Heres the best take I got from an anonymous person:
A glance at their top ten shows/movies today should give them real alarm bells. Why is Twilight kicking Fear Streets ass? Why is Cocomelon beating Ridley Jones in kids? Why aren’t move of their own developed shows “stickier”?
This thread will be strategy, financials and subscribers. Content will get its own thread. (With way more charts.)
2/ Without having looked--honestly, I just spent the last 100 minutes reading the 10K and updating my charts/graphics--I think lots of people are going to hop on Netflix for a down quarter.
But the mood felt like it was going to be a miss...
3/ ...and beside two key numbers, this doesn't feel that bad.
But I should try to give a bigger thesis. Right? Like something flashy? Viral like?
Moreover, knowing that if something is popular in one window, it is popular in future windows too--literally one of three core principles of video entertainment--I long speculated that Marvel films on Netflix were INCREDIBLY popular.
As I tweeted above, I think over long time periods--say a year or more--the MCU films have more total viewership than the vast majority of Netflix originals.
3/ Also, #floraandulysses definitely beat my expectations and made the list. Though, it wouldn't have made the weekly top ten, which is a good "rule of thumb" for if something is very popular.
2/ And I say that even if I was off on a few of my predictions. Because this is when we get a peak insight the “y” or “output” in our models. We get to see if we were right or wrong. And even being wrong teaches us a lot!
3/ In this case, each earnings report where 1. Netflix provides more data and 2. Where we have more sources to cross check that data allows us to build better models and provide better insights.