Firvulag t1_iqompx9 wrote on October 1, 2022 at 11:17 PM

Reply to comment by tottieyang in Netflix's silence on renewing Sandman is a travesty by gotellauntrhodie

> profits.

The rumour is that Netflix themselves dont know how to interpret their own data, it's hard to tell if a show has any value.

A lot of people watched sandman? Great! Did a lot of new people sign up for it? well... Will more people sign up for season 2? maybe..?

Not even netflix is exactly sure about it, which is a huge problem for them in all of this.

Funny-Square t1_iqpplfu wrote on October 2, 2022 at 4:57 AM

Where'd you hear this rumour?

Radulno t1_iqq0ao4 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 7:07 AM

That "rumour" is stupid though, Netflix is doing that since a long time, they know how to interpret data. Hell they even make their shows based on data.

IvarTheBloody t1_iqxsfq5 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 9:40 PM

Yeah and that seems to be going so well, what is Netflixs success rate like.

2% of new shows are breakout hits.

8% are pretty good or very good but there is a 70% chance they will never make it to the end before getting canned.

Maybe 20% of just average shows tha maybe get a couple seasons.

70% filler and complet shit that gets cancelled after 1 season.

Radulno t1_iqxv1pa wrote on October 3, 2022 at 9:58 PM

I mean considering they're the only profitable service and by far the most successful, yes it's going well lol.

They cancel more but they cancel failing shows without enough audience like every other service. They also simply produce way more so in absolute numbers they have more in every category. By the way, random numbers like you give are useless (also quality is entirely subjective so you can't say a show is bad or filler just because you don't like it, plenty of people will like it if it gets renewed)

Apple is a special case since they don't care for profit, they don't play the same game than the others (Amazon neither).

IvarTheBloody t1_iqxwl9e wrote on October 3, 2022 at 10:09 PM

Of course Apple cares about profits just like every company, they needed to play catch up to Netflix and they were never going to do that by quantity so they chose to go for quality instead.

In 10 years time Netflix may have a 1000 different shows but if 800 of them are cancelled and finished without a resolution they really only have 200 shows because no one starts a show if you know it dosn't have a conclusion.

Were as in 10 years time Apple may have only have made 300 shows total but if 250 of them are finished with endings they will have a better catalogue of quality content.