by Colin Kern | Dec 17, 2020
With its streaming service approaching saturation in the United States, Netflix is bringing the playbook that up-ended Hollywood to Bollywood, where India offers its most promising opportunity. To claim a market-share lead in India, Netflix is taking the playbook it...
by Colin Kern | Nov 6, 2020
Although the coronavirus aided Netflix’s 2020 subscription growth, its performance against unprecedented competition in the past year showed that the novel ‘streaming wars’ will not be fought domestically but in expansions abroad. Netflix’s...
by Colin Kern | Nov 5, 2020
Netflix’s investors are stoked about the streaming giant’s recent price hikes. But the jury is still out on its subscribers. When Netflix announced Thursday that its standard and premium subscription plans in the U.S. are being raised to $13.99 and $17.99...
by Colin Kern | Oct 20, 2020
Sherry Dorestan, 34, was excited to send her five-year-old daughter to kindergarten. However, after two delayed school openings and new school closings in selected areas of New York City, Dorestan felt uneasy about the public school’s ‘blended learning’ model. “It...
by Colin Kern | Oct 13, 2020
Netflix will be creating and streaming its first film in Tamil—the language commonly used in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as well as in Sri Lanka and Singapore—the tech giant announced Thursday. The project is the latest attempt by Netflix to gain control of...
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