"for the most part, our members are watching two-and-a-half episodes at a time"
"Our members tend to start with one show and finish it."
Data driven decisions for Netflix when producing content!
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/why-netflix-dramas-sag-midseason-cindy-holland-interview-707986/
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IPFS is a really nice distributed filesystem that is slowly growing in popularity. Netflix has found a good use case: container image distribution.
https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/ipfs-emerges-as-tool-to-distribute-container-image
I'm slightly reminded of Usenet: just download content from the nearest server!
In addition to common things like UI elements, Netflix even A/B tests site performance aspects to see how they affect user behaviour!
Insightful article on the economics of Netflix's content business model, and how users consume it differently to historical content providers:
