• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Their stock is down 40% YoY and they are cutting thousands of staff including their director of content. Looks like it bought them 24 months of bluster and then their watchtimes plumetted.

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      1 day ago

      There’s no reason to believe that that’s related to the family plan enforcement, so it’s really not relevant to this discussion

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        1 day ago

        It is relevant to the stock price discussion, which was the dfense of the family plan enforecement.

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          1 day ago

          The metric of interest in the context is the effects on churn/subscriber conversion, in which Netflix significantly overperformed following the enforcement of family plan rules.

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            1 day ago

            And has since underperformed. Their watch times have not followed their subscriptions and investors are concerned.

            So the enforcement resulting in more subscribers could be seen as short lived given the results for netflix.

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              1 day ago

              A drop in consumption could be equally well explained by lacking content quality, leading to disinterest in consumption.

              Arguably better explained, given that they laid off the director of content.

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                22 hours ago

                Now that people can’t share maybe they’re more discerning about keeping that subscription?

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                  22 hours ago

                  I’m not really clear on what you mean here - Netflix are not having any trouble with their subscriber growth/churn numbers

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                    20 hours ago

                    But their subscriber growth is not increasing their market share or stock price.

                    Which is why you would do that.

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      2 days ago

      capitalism machine prioritizing short term over everything else, working as intended.