Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
Introduction/Description
Netflix, Inc. is a television network which provides streaming of movies, television shows, and original series. It was founded by Reed Hastings on August 1997, and its headquarters are located in Los Gatos, California. Netflix functions in Domestic Streaming, International Streaming, and Domestic DVD. Its content, which is received from several studios and content providers, can be streamed through Internet-connected screens, such as television or mobile phones. In April 2017, it had about 100 million members in 190 different countries.
History/Background
In 1997, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph came up with the idea of creating a website in which people could buy and rent DVDs from home.
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Netflix is an online company with corporate headquarters in Los Gatos, California. Netflix was founded by Hastings who is also the CEO of the company. Netflix’s key business is online rental services in the software industry.
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When Netflix was established in 1998, it shook the whole video rental industry by delivering the services that customers actually wanted. It was not about the movies it had in stock, because these were the same with Blockbuster or any other established video rental business. To them it was about how customers can get the best out of what they had to offer.
The video rental industry began with brick and mortar store that rented VSH tape. Enhanced internet commerce and the advent of the DVD provided a opportunity for a new avenue for securing movie rentals. In 1998 Netflix headquartered in Los Gatos California began operations as a regional online movie rental company. While the firm demonstrated that a market for online rentals existed, it was not financially successfully. Netflix lost over $11 million in 1998 and as a result significantly changed the business model in 2000. The new strategy included focusing on becoming a nationally based subscription model and focusing on enhancing the subscribers experience on their website. The change in
“Netflix, Inc. is the world's largest online movie rental service, with more than 10 million subscribers (Netflix Media Center, 2009).”
Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings who is the current CEO of the company. He noticed that there was a demand for the
Netflix was the pioneer who used this business model to offer entertainment content using video streaming technology in
Instead of various local chain stores, Netflix operated from a single virtual store that offered customers new rental features. The web services platform utilized customization and a user-friendly design to facilitate renting movies. “CineMatch,” a proprietary developed application, tailored the virtual store to each subscriber. This technology produced customized rental suggestions for customers while maximizing potential inventory. “CineMatch” incorporated a subscriber rating system of past rentals to generate more efficient and personalized future recommendations. The web-based services also improved selection through the ability to easily browse Netflix’s large inventory catalog and add selections to a personalized “Queue,” which lists movies customers have scheduled to receive. Instead of being forced to navigate through the traditional genre and alphabetized catalog, Netflix offered an easier movie selection process. Besides the selection efficiencies, members have the ability to share ratings, reviews, and movie selections with each other through the “Community” feature.
The following is a case study of Netflix, Inc. an American-based company that provides the streaming of online media to consumers in North America, South America, and parts of Europe. This case study will provide a brief overview of the company’s history along with four present-day challenges that the company will face as it tries to stay ahead of the competition. In its discussion of the present-day challenges that Netflix, Inc. faces the discussion will also relate the proposed challenges to the managerial challenges of globalization, diversity, and ethics. After each of the four anticipated challenges have been addressed then this paper will provide an analysis of the steps that Netflix, Inc. has already taken to keep the
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Also Netflix needs to prepare a better plan to recover old customers, gain new customers and make sure that the people who still have Netflix keep it. Establishing a bundle price for both online streaming and DVD rental will allow The Netflix Company to recover some market shares and remain the leading overall digital film company. The recommendations are as follows:
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Over the past 18 years, Netflix has greatly evolved, changing the way movies and television shows are watched. It was founded in 1998 by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings as a DVD mail-order service. Netflix knew that it had to grow and innovate in order to compete with other big-name movie rental services such as Blockbuster and Redbox. Because of this, both Randolph and Hastings decided to integrate streaming in 2007. Although one could only stream on a desktop or a laptop,
Netflix began in 1997 as a revolutionary idea by CEO Reed Hastings and software executive March Randolph. Before long, in 1999 Netflix launched its major line of business, the online subscription service, which radically changed the way consumers viewed movies and television. For a young company in an innovative and growing industry, Netflix has set itself up for a tremendous journey. The company has had much success due to its adaption of a modern business model and strength in operations management. Its continued reliance on and improvements of operation management principles is necessary to continue growing and bringing in profits.