'In the chaotic world of television, Amanda Lotz has a keen ability to separate noise from signal. Here she drills into the factors and functions that make subscription streaming services distinctive from one another and put Netflix in a class of its own. This is a must-read for students of and professionals in the TV industry.'Evan Shapiro, Producer, Media Cartographer, and Professor at Fordham University and NYU'Amanda Lotz is unparalleled at addressing our most vital questions regarding the global streaming video landscape. With Netflix and Streaming Video, Lotz has also introduced a blog-incubated mode of academic query as essential, iterative, asynchronous, and disruptive as the industries she studies.'David Craig, USC Annenberg
PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroductionSection One: Subscriber-funded streaming services are different from linear services1. Experience: On Schedules and Viewing Practices2. Building Libraries: Conglomerating Niches and Beyond?3. Subscriber Funding: On Success Metrics, Program Strategies, and Demographics4. Licensing, Labour, Regulation, and Recommendation5. Scale and Specialization6. The Discrepant Field of Global ServicesSection One ConclusionSection Two: Netflix is not like other subscriber-funded streaming video services7. Netflix Content Concepts and Vocabulary8. Netflix Library Strategies9. Netflix Content Strategies10. Netflix's Approach to Being GlobalSection Two ConclusionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
Amanda D. Lotz is a Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.