1. INTRODUCTION
Video streaming service is one of growing business in the recent years. Many streaming service providers are available in market and there is a lot of competitive edge between those. Some of the providers are Amazon Prime Instant, Hulu, Vudu, ITunes and each has its unique feature.
Netflix is one of the America’s largest movie rental service and in addition provides the subscribers with internet based video streaming service. (Netflix Competitive Advantage, 2010). It was started in 1997 headquartered in Los Gatos, California. (Netflix, 2014). Netflix has more than 40 million subscribers who have access to more than 100,000 titles as on mid-2013 (Netflix, 2014). They have more than 42 shipping locations and ships over 1.575 million DVD’s to subscribers on daily basis (Netflix Competitive Advantage, 2010). In USA the highest ISP speed is 2.97Mbps which is provided by cable vision-optimum. Netflix together with YouTube accounts holds for over 50% of downstream traffic on fixed networks. Its design and traffic management play key roles on its network infrastructure (The ISP Speed Index, 2014). The main strategy of Netflix is to attract more subscribes to the online video streaming service. Amazon, Blockbuster, Walmart, Redbox were some of the competitors of Netflix in movie rental.
Netflix consumes about 29.7% of peak downstream traffic because of its online video streaming service. (Adhikari, et al., 2012). The network architecture of Netflix should be well organized to support the features of high availability and scalability. Netflix previously had its own data center to host the services and functions required for efficient video streaming availability to its customers. Currently, Netflix has adopted cloud techn...
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In the field of low-cost and globally-ambitious Internet subscription services, there are mainly four big competitors, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO. In order to win as much of consumers’ time and spending as possible, each of them have different strategies to compete with each other. HBO is an original content firm getting into the Internet subscription business with HBO Go (Moskowitz, 2015). Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are internet firms with mostly licensed content, all planning their strategy of producing original content.
Netflix provides a subscription-style e-commerce service. Customers only need to sign up and pay $13.95-39.95 a month to borrow as many as 2-9 movies at a time with no monthly limit. If customers quickly watch the DVD and send them back, the monthly fee pays for quite a few movies. The relatively low monthly fee enables Netflix to compete with Blockbuster and other brick-and-mortar video rental business. Meanwhile, Netflix might keep the customers who try the service and happy with it continue paying the monthly fee. Therefore, Netflix has less problem in predicting revenue or level revenues.
The average Blockbuster store carries roughly 1,500 movie titles. Netflix carries more than 12,000 titles. It has movies that you can't find anywhere else. And Netflix uses collaborative filtering technology to send you emails that alert you to movies that you might otherwise never consider. Netflix saw the video- and game-rental market moving to DVD and built its business around that trend. Netflix doesn't rent videocassettes, only DVDs (in part because they're lighter and cheaper to mail). Netflix was able to identify and implement a strategy fo...
Netflix incorporated is in the home video entertainment market and it is the world's largest online movie rental. “Netflix increases value to customers based on four major value drivers: technology, delivery, customization and brand reputation.” In recent year, the technology growth rapidly, Netflix incorporated finds the niche market in video rental market. They distributes the movies to consumers through movie theatres, airlines, hotels, and in-home. Gradually, Netflix changes the customers’ consumption habits on watch movies. More and more customers prefer to choice the convenient way rather than buy DVDs. Therefore Netflix become the first choice for online provider of the home entertainment industry. The optimal decisions for Netflix are the Chief Executive Officer perfectly coordinates the senior managers of different functions and the senior managers decentralised the power to the specific workers.
§ There are a large number of substitute products. Netflix is in the business of providing personal entertainment at an affordable cost. Since any other form of entertainment is considered a substitute, Netflix?s industry is in direct competition with all other forms of entertainment, whether it be reading, physical exercise, regular television, etc. If trends in popular culture move away from those related to movies, revenues may be affected.
The video rental industry began with brick and mortar store that rented VSH tape. Enhanced internet commerce and the advent of the DVD provided a opportunity for a new avenue for securing movie rentals. In 1998 Netflix headquartered in Los Gatos California began operations as a regional online movie rental company. While the firm demonstrated that a market for online rentals existed, it was not financially successfully. Netflix lost over $11 million in 1998 and as a result significantly changed the business model in 2000. The new strategy included focusing on becoming a nationally based subscription model and focusing on enhancing the subscribers experience on their website. The change in strategic focus has allowed Netflix to grow into the largest online entertainment subscriptions service in the United States with over 6.3 million subscribers (Netflix).
Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix headquartered in Los Gatos, CA, began the company’s operations in 1997 after receiving an enormous late charge from a movie rental he returned long overdue. However, Hastings had the desire to be different than traditional movie outlets; whereas, customers had to drive to the location, pay a certain amount for each movie they rented, and were given a deadline in which to return the movie. Instead of using a method established by other video markets “to attract customers to a retail location, Netflix offered home delivery of DVDs through the mail” which eventually led to a booming business towards streaming forms of entertainment (Shih, Kaufman, & Spinola, 2009, p. 3). Today, Netflix exists along with several competitors; however, offers the most streaming content available for viewing, and continues to grow its subscriber base both domestically and globally. Although, direct and indirect competitors, acquisition costs, and several barriers present a financial threat for Netflix, the company has managed to grow with the acclamation of partnerships, expand to international territories, and vastly increase its price in shares of stock.
Video Rental and Streaming has partly been of the most significant avenues of the general home entertainment industry in the United States for many years. It promotes constructive development through various channels such as Information Technology, Public Multimedia and it also has a huge impact on people’s lives and their entertainment on demand. One of the best companies which provide this high-advanced service is Netflix, Inc (Netflix). It was incorporated on August 29th in 1997 in California by Reed Hastings & Marc Randolph; listed on NASDAQ as NFLX in 2002. Netflix is the world’s largest Internet subscription service streaming television shows and movies with over 40 million members in 40 countries (Netflix, 2013).
The idea inspired Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, and then they founded Netflix in Scotts Valley, California in 1997 (Netflix, 2014). The company comes into play by developing a subscription-based streaming platform for movies and television shows. Unlike the traditional movie rental businesses such as Blockbuster and Redbox, Netflix’s innovation offers service via Internet, and it does not have any physical stores but instead delivers DVDs through postal mail in the U.S. Since then, Netflix has become the world’s leading internet television network with constant growth of customers to over 48 millions members in more than 40 countries in the North America, Europe, and the Latin America (Netflix, 2014). In this analysis, the main focus is examining the current market environment for Netflix. It identifies the type of market structure that Netflix is currently competing. The analysis also expands on the competitions, product differentiation, pricing strategy, and measuring the level of easy entry-and-exit.
A high speed Internet connection is required to stream video. The Netflix Help Center recommends an Internet connection speed of 5.0 Megabits per second (Mbps) for HD video ("Internet Connection Speed Recommendations") Today most American households have access to broadband speeds capable of high-definition video. According to Anne Neville of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 98% of Americans have access to broadband speeds of six megabits per second and 83% to speeds of twenty five Mbps or more (Neville). These speeds are more than adequate for HD quality video streaming. With the current broadband initiatives in place this should continue to improve in coming years, along with the possibility of even greater speeds. Beginning in November 2013, Cox Communications began offering increased Internet connectio...
Reed Hastings (co-founded) founded Netflix in 1997. During this time, Netflix offered DVD rentals by mail. As Netflix went public in 2002, shortly a year later their subscription reached the one million mark (Netflix Management, 2011). Recently, Netflix is recognized as one of the 50 most innovative companies, ranking number eight for “streaming itself into a $9 billion powerhouse (and crushing Blockbuster)” with 20 million subscribers (fastcompany.com, 2011). This success shows how Netflix embraced a business approach where their mission was to take the troublesome experience of everyday consumers and transform them into a business opportunity. Below illustrates how Netflix rank in other categories.
As the firm moves forward, top managers must pay attention to staying unique to sustain a competitive advantage. Netflix does not own their content, nor do they have any tangible assets. Netflix is a part of a broad range of network users. As technology continues to grow exponentially, Netflix will have to be readily adaptive to change and innovation. Technology never stops growing and evolving, therefore, Netflix’s business platform should never stop growing and evolving. At the same time, they must be careful to remain user friendly and customer centric by keeping the technology at a level where users will not have to obtain a certain set of technological skill sets.
Netflix was established by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings in 1997 in California. Initially, the company offered a DVD-by-mail service for a monthly, flat rate subscription fee. Videos were sen...
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There is strong competition with other companies that offer video streaming at no extra charge. Additionally, Netflix and its competitors are attempting to enter the digital world. Digitally offering television shows is an area of competition that has previously been controlled by