Netflix Is Still a Binge Thinker
You can teach a new-media company some old-media tricks, but it doesn't mean that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is changing its binge-happy ways. The leading premium streaming service is defending its release strategy after several online media outlets are pointing out that a growing number of shows on Netflix are no longer making all of their episodes available right away.
Netflix has changed the way that viewers approach new seasons of shows. Folks can watch an entire season of a sitcom or serialized drama the weekend it comes out -- as long as their eyelids are up to the challenge. Traditional television networks never had much of a choice but to serve up new episodes in weekly installments. On-demand technology didn't exist, and when it did, they weren't the ones behind the wheel.
But now that media and tech giants are setting up camp on the cloud, it's surprising that many of them continue to prefer the old weekly cadence of new episodes. The disrupted are not getting the disruptor's memo, but now even Netflix finds itself leaning on old-school release schedules for a limited number of its offerings.
Source Fool.com
