Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - What’s Next for Digital Streaming | 9
On today's special interview episode, renowned media futurist Rich Greenfield returns to fill us in on the latest developments in the streaming wars and how these changes might impact viewers in the c...
27 Touko 201932min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Streamers Everywhere | 8
It’s spring 2019, and the Mouse House is determined to challenge Netflix for streaming supremacy. Disney CEO Bob Iger draws gasps at an industry event when he announces the new Disney Plus streaming s...
22 Touko 201920min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Break the Wheel | 7
Netflix goes from being a streaming company to a movement in which consumers all over the world decide what to watch, and when and how they watch. The future that Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph envis...
20 Touko 201924min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Binge | 6
Hollywood execs thought Netflix was crazy to give up advertising and spin off opportunities by letting viewers flop on a couch and watch a whole season of a show all at once. But Netflix knew it was o...
15 Touko 201923min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - HBO Gets in the Game | 5
We take a step back to explore how a little company called Home Box Office went from serving B-movies to 325 homes in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania to become the juggernaut that we know as HBO. In the pr...
13 Touko 201926min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - The Digital Divide | 4
You know the expression “content is king”? Well it turns out, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s a hard-working algorithm that burrows into customer habits and viewing patterns. With that, Netflix had...
8 Touko 201922min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Dirty Tricks | 3
Thinking like your enemy is the best way to beat them, and during the war, Blockbuster tried every trick in the book to get inside Netflix. Sometimes they succeeded — sending “housewives” into warehou...
6 Touko 201922min
Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Origins | 2
After Hastings pleaded with Antioco to buy Blockbuster online, Antioco agreed to present Hasting’s proposal to the board. What he didn’t tell him was that he was pushing the board to reject the offer ...
1 Touko 201919min
