Netflix original movie "Beasts of No Nation"

[Tweak155]

Your response doesn't answer the questions.

Gee you spent 100 million on 48 hours of content [a fraction of] your subscribers will watch once. Then what?

You're looking at it kind of short term.

My guess is that the main draw in creating your own content is that you only have to pay for it once. Subscribers come and go, but over an infinite timeline (I.E time itself), even if you get only a fraction of your viewers per month retained because they watched your content, it will pay for itself.

Compare that to other content they serve which will continue to cost them substantially more each and every month / contract.

 

[Jimzz]

You're looking at it kind of short term.

My guess is that the main draw in creating your own content is that you only have to pay for it once. Subscribers come and go, but over an infinite timeline (I.E time itself), even if you get only a fraction of your viewers per month retained because they watched your content, it will pay for itself.

Compare that to other content they serve which will continue to cost them substantially more each and every month / contract.

That and Netflix sells its content outside the US. Not sure if they do DVDs yet but I know they resell outside the US in many markets.