Netflix
 Netflix  (Corporate media)    | |
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| Formation | 2007 |
| Founder | • Reed Hastings • Marc Randolph |
| Headquarters | Los Gatos, California, U.S |
| Membership | • Wade Davis • Sergio Ezama • Maria Ferreras • David Hyman • Eunice Kim • Minyoung Kim • Marian Lee • Dan Lin • Spencer Neumann • Pablo Perez De Rosso • Greg Peters • Francisco Ramos • Amy Reinhard • Ted Sarandos • Elizabeth Stone • Larry Tanz • Alain TascanP • Spencer Wang |
Netflix is a US subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025.[1]
Activites
Has a track record of producing content that perfectly fits a mainstream agenda.
Made a "creative partnership" with Higher Ground a media company started by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. As part of the deal, Higher Ground will have a multiyear first-look deal with Netflix for all of its film and TV projects.[2]
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| Big Tech | “So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.
Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though. There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.” | Farhad Manjoo | 26 October 2017 |
