Arrested Development Day — the holiday we made up for Netflix's season four digital dump — is less than two weeks away. Do you have a 53-episode catchup marathon in you? Didn't really think so. So these good people did their homework and built a viral visualization that its creators call "a service for the Arrested Development fan community." Be grateful.
According to new data, everything that you do on every website besides Netflix and YouTube combined generates about the same amount of peak web traffic as those two sites alone. Netflix itself is bigger in every metric than HBO.
Figuring out which titles are going expire soon on Netflix just got a lot harder: The company changed its public API Monday night to prevent this information from popping up on third-party websites.
In the high-stakes race to commoditize the new couch potato, other online networks-in-the-making are working overtime. Can Netflix keep you binging across both ends of the entertainment spectrum? Or is there a funny sleeper hit in the works from the Internet, where two-minute clips are true kings, and 22-minute series are usually, well, really bad?
In May, Netflix will lose streaming rights to a whopping 1,794 titles because of expiring deals with Warner Bros., MGM, Universal, and Viacom. A big chunk of them will expire at midnight on May 1 — and by the end of the month, Netflix Instant will have lost the whole lot.
By adding more than 2 million U.S. subscribers this quarter and another 1 million elsewhere in the world, Netflix has nearly earned back its entire $100 million investment in House of Cards — in under three months, according to our calculations based on Monday's earnings report.
All that anecdotal password sharing we've been hearing about is more than just a few media savvy friends passing around their logins: One analyst estimates that something like 10 million people watch Netflix Instant, gratis.
The news is terrible. It's always terrible, but right now it's especially terrible. And while we're sure you're doing your due diligence in watching cable news or local live streams or Twitter or whatever else, it's OK to take a break, too.
Fifteen new episodes of the beloved show will debut on the streaming site on May 26, an event that has many excited, yes, but many worried, too. What if it's not as good?
Netflix has finally announced a Memorial Day release for 15 episodes of Arrested Development, a beloved sitcom with a devoted audience that the streaming service uncancelled for exactly that purpose: a long weekend of obsessive binge-watching that is now a proven money maker. Here's why appointment television just got a lot more addictive.
Sci-fi siblings the Wachowskis are the latest auteurs turning to Netflix as a platform for a television pet project à la David Fincher and House of Cards.
As if the streaming video business couldn't get any more crowded, streaming music giant Spotify is trying to disrupt its way into on-demand Internet TV content. Which sounds like a profoundly bad idea, until you think about House of Cards and how to work a content deal these days.
After getting rid of some legal barriers, Netflix and Facebook have now cemented a friendship promised to us back in the fall of 2011, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Open Graph would give us all sorts of Facebook integrated actions.
For years cable and satellite companies have maintained they're not afraid of people canceling their service and watching video over the Internet (i.e. cutting the cord), but the cord nevers — the young people who never sign up for pay-TV service in the first place — are a totally different story.
The sudden, total availability of House of Cards — and more shows like it, with every episode dumped upon us, and all at once — can create a stressful, manic viewing experience. How are we supposed to keep up with one another anymore?
Everyone seems pretty interested in the expensive new experiment from Netflix, but how is the actual show? Are the overwrought Washington machinations worth bingeing on? We took a look at the first few episodes, and these are our findings.
With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can Netflix afford it?
As content providers continue to intimidate tech companies with a couch-potato conundrum, the latest innovation in the war to win your living room is not some new gadget from Apple or Netflix — it's a protocol that helps our screens talk to each other.
If you don't feel like watching football, tune in to these classic shows. They'll help you get through the day, hour by looming hour.
A week after the Great Netflix Outage of Christmas 2012, some but not all users complained that Netflix was down once again on New Year's Eve day, and nobody's entirely sure why this keeps happening at the most inopportune time.
The service is now back after going down last night, during arguably one of the worst possible times ever, when many people stuck at home with their families would hope to seek a little refuge in some streaming movies.
The long holiday weekend has arrived. It may be the the time for family moviegoing, but it's also the age of Netflix, so we've taken this December's blockbusters and Oscar bait, combed through the options on Netflix Instant, and found a match.
A big, juicy new deal with Disney means that Netflix will be the first and only place to show its new releases — a privilege generally reserved for places like HBO, Starz, and Showtime.
Netflix CEO Reid Hastings says that Amazon loses between $500 and $1 million a year on streaming video, which, if true, doesn't quite make sense given Amazon's stated business model.
The latest in the Carl Icahn-versus-Netflix saga has Icahn calling Netflix's poison pill measure "poor governance" in an SEC filing, which is exactly what we would expect Icahn to do, given his former dealings with companies like this.
Compared to this time last year, when Netflix lost 800,000 subscribers following a price hike, the streaming service looks like a success story, adding 1.16 million new users this quarter. But that's not how Wall Street feels, which has the company's stock down almost 17 percent following its earnings report.
On Wednesday, the team behind the new season of Arrested Development announced an addition to their cast: You!
If the iPhone 5's bigger 4-inch screen size still isn't enough to appease movie watchers, how big will phones have to go before people start watching? A lot bigger than even the biggest of smartphones now.
Netflix's brand has suffered since its price hike last summer. Turns out, more than a year later, DVD mail-in subscribers are slowly feeling better about the brand while streaming subscribers have been stagnant, according to this chart by brand perception company BrandIndex.
For those keeping score at home, as of today both Netflix and Amazon have content deals with movie distributor Epix, meaning not much has changed for the state of movies on Netflix -- at least not yet.
Rosie Larsen was finally able to rest in peace after The Killing's second season finale, and for a moment it seemed like the show had met its maker, too. AMC cancelled it, but Fox Television Studios decided to shop it around, and now we know who's in the market.
Hulu is contemplating some changes to its service, according to what has been described as a "death memo" that will "completely screw up Hulu" obtained by Variety's Andrew Wallenstein.
On Wednesday, PaidContent's Daniel Frankel looked at a study that claimed Netflix streaming dropped 25 percent thanks to the Olympics. But a new report shows Netflix streaming going up.
ISP technology provider Procera Networks reports that Netflix streaming was down a quarter from normal levels in the U.S. Sunday, even though overall streaming video traffic was way up. Of course, last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said there'd be days like this.
During yesterday's quarterly earnings report, Netflix mentioned a possible end to its relationship with Epix -- one of its movie providers -- as if it were no big deal to lose a contract that provides many popular new release movies.
Turns out we're not the only one who enjoys sitting around all day Netflixing in our pajamas. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said people watched over 1 billion hours of content on the streaming site during the month of June alone.
Critics say a pay TV business that regularly charges its customers $100 a month is doomed. So how about a cable bill that costs less than $40?
After building a powerful subscription video-on-demand business virtually overnight, Netflix passed Apple last year to become the top revenue earner in the U.S. online movie business.
Today: Netflix goes all in, Bravo renews your favorite show, and Showtime has a new project.
Following its failure to separate its DVD and streaming businesses with its loud and unpopular Qwikster rebranding effort, Netflix has taken subtler tactics to segregate its two types of customers: buying up the domain DVD.com.
Today in books and publishing: Consumer Reports endorses The Nook, Joan Didion suffered another scary bone injury, and Tom Wolfe's new book will have a very bright cover.
Internet companies look to old television formulas as they create original content for the Web.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week:
A report from Reuters that Netflix is in talks with an unnamed cable company has us worried since Netflix turning into cable is the last thing we want.
Netflix doesn't have to sweat losing its big Starz Play movie library because viewers come to the Internet for their television fixes and Netflix has built up a pretty valuable store of TV selections in the last few months.
Don't get too, too sad about Netflix losing Starz Play after tomorrow.
As more and more consumers move to cut the cord, Comcast is the latest major media company to announce its entrance into the streaming video business.
As Comcast's earnings report proves, the cable companies and broadcast networks who fear the Internet taking away precious cable subscribers have a lot to gain from the streaming viewing trend. Namely: A new place to profit off of content licensing.
Expensive sports channels are pushing cable bills to levels that make Internet-only subscriptions seem ever-more appealing.
Even after reporting an increase in high-speed data customers alongside a decrease in video subscribers, Time Warner still doesn't think that the Internet is replacing the traditional pay TV model.
Netflix reported a strong fourth quarter Wednesday and confirmed that the rapid exodus of subscribers following this summer's customer relations fiasco has come to an end.
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