“Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer give the consumer what they want. ”
Ted Sarandos“Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer give the consumer what they want. ”
Ted Sarandos“When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.”
Ted Sarandos“I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.”
Ted Sarandos“I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.”
Ted Sarandos“I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.”
Ted Sarandos