Netflix Final PDF
Netflix Final PDF
Netflix Final PDF
Abstract
Netflix, an online video streaming platform, broke the traditions for the last 20 years and has
been changing the way world watches anything today. India is a land where humanity
presents itself in the most creative burst of culture and religions, races and tongues. It is
indeed a challenging platform for Netflix to sustain in the Indian markets. The study provides
an integrative and analytical review of, what will be the tactics Netflix will follow in order to
please Indian consumers, can subtitles play a role? Can they get the pricing, right? Can they
fix on the bandwidth across the country? and so on. This conceptual paper will help in
validating the strategies Netflix would follow in future and will they be phenomenal where
Objectives
1) To understand the marketing strategies that can help Netflix to dominate the Over-
2) To determine the challenges faced by Netflix in the growing Indian video streaming
platform.
3) To determine the major competitors of Netflix and their strategies in getting customer
attraction.
Introduction
Netflix was established in the year 1997 in California, initially it started as mail order video
rental and sales service.Over the time they have adapted themselves to the changing
technological development to a lead in the online streaming market. They began a
subscription model where the subscribers pay a monthly fee and they had the access to rent
the movies , tv shows from the Netflix library and return it whenever they want to without
paying any late fee. Today Netflix has more than 80 million subscribers around the world ,
as it produces their own series and movies. As we analyse their growth we can see that they
have a clear picture of the customers trends and develops strategies according to it. As the
company was started during the dot-com bubble where in the internet was just being
accessible to the consumers , Netflix recognised the upcoming trend and looked for a way to
capitalize it. When they decided to launch their new website they found that it will be
expensive to work with the VHS technology. However in the previous year the DVD’s were
first introduced in the test markets and mainly concentrated to re-develop their strategies with
this new medium. When we look at the above strategy we can learn that they had a major
revenue from people buying DVD’s . Initially when Netflix started off they did not have
many competitions as such who offered them to legally watch the movies, the ones who were
in the business had a requirement that the customers has to first download the movies and pay
for them. Netflix understood that customers really didn’t want to download and pay for the
same every time they wanted to watch movies,they created a platform where they could
watch their favourite shows online without downloading it with their subscriptions availed.
This bought about a new experience to the customers and Netflix made their service
appealing to the subscribers. In order to sustain their position Netflix has to invest their time
in learning the new insights in markets which is not developed by any other online streaming
platforms. As generations grow old the purchasing power also increases, this will most likely
continue in the future and as we see Netflix has and advantage of positioning them in the
markets.
Literature Review
Osur, L. (2016) emphasises about the launch of Netflix in the markets, where platform of
internet videos was a breakthrough and how they established as a leading company and made
the reputation their of own. Netflix also evolved themselves to a production & distribution
network and they had turned the traditional way of watching television into videos of their
preference at finger tips. Dawi, Jusoh, Nor, Qureshi(2016) enhances the service quality that
determines the effectiveness of the business that is striving to catch customer attention that
will build loyalty towards the brand. Elgohary, W. R. (2011) does a speculative analysis of
Netflix’s business strategies and its impact on the subscribers, was the policies laid down was
in the favour of company’s profitability, did it meant to satisfy the subscribers of Netflix ,
the study also emphasis a relationship between the rate of subscription and satisfaction of
customers. Nover, S. (2018) discusses on the emergence of visual media was from the 20th
century. The evolution of technology paved Netflix to offer certain facilities to the public, the
decision to launch video streaming platform was one of them from the conventional DVD
rental program which they had previously followed. Adaptions of new policies had helped
Netflix to gain a role in the competitive market.Hampton-Sosa, W. (2017) say that digital
piracy is one of the challenges that is faced in the digital world . As corrective measures it is
very important for the customers to look into the quality, information and authorization rather
than looking at the free charge from unauthorized websites. Wayne, M. L. (2018) says that
branding is the strategy followed by the television industries to gain an advantage over time .
Amazon and Netflix are rivals in the market which are trying to fabricate strategies’ to attract
customers subscribe their premium accounts and also they are laying out plans to throw out
traditional television networks and to sustain from the competition of parallel entities.
Given, j. (2016) investigates two late explanations of the idea of TV that have propelled 'end
of TV' stories in the two nations.The invasion of digital platforms in the countries had an
impact on the traditional television viewing.The best online membership video benefit in
Australia and New Zealand up until this point, Netflix, talks up the finish of TV.The article
from DVRs, to Netflix. The subscribers have no idea how they can devour the televisual
content. New service released had availed the customers to live and recorded over the air. In
this era the modern television platforms are adapting new strategies by evolving in
Netflix had triumphed the video on demand market from the other rivals prevailed in the time
and how they had become successful in creating a brand perception in the mind of people at
the first moment itself. Thomas (2018) in his interview with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, for
Business line, mentioned about their great start in India. He appreciated the fantastic
membership growth in India and said that Netflix wants to create movies and TV shows that
Indians are waiting for. Supporting different languages, making better mode of payments,
developing amazing content are the different challenges to be dealt within India, he said.
Chawla (2018) in his article briefs about the challenges faced by Netflix in the growing
Indian video streaming platform. The article discusses on the recent survey in which Netflix
is positioned last among the top five Over-the-top online video streaming services in India
and finds Hotstar, Amazon prime, Voot and Youtube to be the major competitors. Poor
internet connectivity and bandwidth are considered to be the major challenges in India. The
article also suggests Netflix to work more on its content. Knowledge.Warton (2017) studies
on the chances of Netflix to be a blockbuster in India. China and India are considered to be
the two major potential markets of Netflix but the video streaming service failed in offering
enough local contents for the people out there. The article tells that Indian markets are to be
built slowly without any big bang fashion. High subscription price, high data costs, poor
speed of delivery and the lack of Indian content have resulted in the low number of premium
memberships.Business standard (2017) discusses on the increasing demand for online video
streaming in India and on the strategies used by Hotstar in building a strong customer base.
One reason for global OTT services to lag behind India's hotstar is the lack of Indian
online video streaming platform, several American companies considers India as a potential
market. The article states that 'Unlike the US citizens, Indians prefer free video. These
reasons have made it difficult for the content creators and the video streaming platform to
earn profit from streaming and its downloads. In January, 2016 Netflix started streaming in
130 countries including India. India, with its good demographics is considered to emerge as a
prominent market for online video streaming and downloads.But the emerging Indian
streaming market offers a number of challenges which Netflix will find difficult to
position in the Indian market. India’s growth is found to be the fastest among the 16 countries
where Amazon Prime is available. Indians stick on to their regional languages and this has
that Netflix will use MicroStrategy for detailing and investigation of monetary information
and serves its subscriber base to 6.8 million members. Ease of use, robust-reporting, and
analytical capabilities are some of the features of MicroStrategy. Netflix is the world’s largest
online movie rental service which offers a variety of subscription plans with no due dates, no
late fees and no subscription fees. Friends(SM) feature is used by people to share and
recommend movies among one another.Madison, A. L. (2018) says that it’s the time of
Netflix governing the industry of qualified originality contents with its series named ‘Orange
is the new black’ and ‘Stranger things. The video streaming platform is making brilliant
move with their production house. The article tells that this control triggered the creativity of
producers to come up with new scripts. The fantasy movie ‘Bright’ was an example which
showed a huge increase in the number of subscriptions.Newswire (2000) takes us through the
initial stages of the company, when it provided DVD rental services. Then they stepped on to
TV commercials to make people watch through Netflix. It says that watching movies make
humans make more aware and matured enough to handle situation. Gottfried, M. (2013)
suggests Netflix to work more on their content, understanding the strategies followed by
Amazon and HBO in their productions. The latter mentioned have got viewers from around
the world.Sabharwal (2018) does a comparative analysis of Amazon and Netflix and the
strategies they use to capture the Indian market. The paper also discusses on the introduction
of their exclusive contents that strengthen their competition in the market.Panda, Pandey
(2018) investigate on the reasons that have changed the viewing habits of the viewers. The
college students are engaged in binge watching and the paper discusses on the consequences
of the same. They also discuss on its implications on the video streaming platforms.TechSci
(2018) says that Indian OTT video streaming platform will show a tremendous growth in the
recent years. Reducing prices of data packs and smart phones, good internet connectivity,
growing youth population, increasing number of online users etc are found to be the major
reasons behind this growth.Choi, Chow, Kwok, Liu& Shen(2013) study the customer
perceptions in terms of quality of the products and service they receive and finds the
‘fulfilment and responsiveness’ that relates to customer loyalty. As a result of the study it was
found that the company must develop strategies in order to satisfy the customer’s needs and
amazon and Netflix ,it is seen that Netflix has consistent , and corelates with its brand’s good
, convenient and smart service to its costumers , whereas amazon had few downtimes.
However amazon has an upper hand when it comes to the pricing which has a long term
Netflix an online streaming platform gained incredible popularity in the US in 2013 for its
production of TV series and movies. However, like any other entertainment industries they
decided to expand in the other countries. In the year 2016 they had setup a strategy of
launching Netflix in about 130 countries where India was one among them, during this course
of time they faced various challenges relating to their cultural, economic and legislative
aspects. One of the major challenges was the language barrier. In India we have about 44% of
them speaking in Hindi. For a giant entertainment industry like Netflix where they have all
the content in English this was one of the threats because the viewers necessarily need not
understand the content and there would have been high probability to reject it. The suggestion
to overcome this challenge would be viewing the series with subtitles, but how far are the
The other challenge faced by the company was the payment options. The subscribers could
pay the subscription amount only through the debit and credit cards. The complications with
the payment was faced even in the other countries. In order to overcome this issue they have
to adapt the local payment forms like the paytm, googlepay etc .The other problem that was
encountered was the content , they were perplexed if the content could be viewed by children
and was there any inappropriate content in it. Followed by this the next concern was the
technological aspect. Since india has low speed internet and there is no wifi in most of the
public placesthis could be one of dispute. Another aspect is the widespread tendency of
providing better content to their clients , for Netflix it is very crucial for them to invest more
on their innovations and find unique strategies that their competitors wouldn’t have thought
Even though Netflix had incurred certain losses by entering into the the Indian market they
have taken a stand to hold on to this market because they believe, to develop a profit margin
it takes time and they are also developing certain modern technologies to increase the
convenience, internet traffic and user interface . To all the questions regarding competition
they are emphasising the tagline that they are focussing on the customers rather than the
competitors
Be that as it may, if Netflix figures out how to take care of these principle clear issues and
actualize its arranged business methodologies, it stands a decent opportunity to end up a main
Conclusion
In our opinion, Netflix has to concentrate and invest in their Research and development in
order to understand the perspectives of the Indian customers. As India is a land of cultures,
they have to look into their cultural aspects in order to attract a wide range of
customers.Whenwe look at the subscription rates, they should be more considerate about the
prices and the modes of payment as we have different payment systems which gives the
customers various advantage and discounts on their online payments. The other aspect would
be the bandwidth, as we know that India has a relatively poor network connection, which is
one of the main challenges, the company can join hands with any one of the telecom
industries and get it resolved.However, if Netflix do not involve themselves in innovations
and cannot offer a superior ordeal than their competitors or if they do not meet the
expectations of their clients, then they tend to risk their market positioning.
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