And like I said, if you're not in that bubble, you don't know that because the whole world doesn't revolve around the movie that was number one in the box office.

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We actually get more viewing and cumulatively more social media buzz, more tweets, more activity on social media, around these shows for the all-at-once model.

Here's the thing, the way that the internet has kind of fragmented audiences, you might be in the center of the bubble and you think your show is the biggest show on the planet, or you never heard of that show and it is the biggest show on the planet, that happens now. That's new in the last five years.

By not [ releasing numbers ] what was happening, is, I think, people were missing some of these kind of cultural moments, one way that people choose things is popularity, and we were the denying people the use of that one tool to help discover new things.

We're trying to figure out a way to make it useful. by Ted Sarandos

We're trying to figure out a way to make it useful.

Ideally, it would be great if you could watch a network and not understand what the networks' politics are, the programming on Netflix is an aggregation of the politics of a lot of storytellers and creators... It's not an aggregation of my politics or Reed's [ Hastings, Netflix's CEO ] politics.

Jerry Seinfeld is Jerry Seinfeld that all television comedy is measured against, we can't wait to welcome Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine, George and Cosmo Kramer to their new global home on Netflix.

It's why we will work with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and others to fight it in court. Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we'll continue to film there - while also supporting partners and artists who choose not to. Should it ever come into effect, we'd rethink our entire investment in Georgia.

It's why we will work with the ACLU and others to fight it in court. Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we'll continue to film there, while also supporting partners and artists who choose not to, should it ever come into effect, we'd rethink our entire investment in Georgia.

What's important is for part of your Netflix subscription, you are in the zeitgeist, you're watching the programming that the rest of the world is loving at the same time.

If they're enjoying hours and hours of programming and a lot of shows, and we're meeting the need, they'll think it's of great value, and if they don't, they won't. So it's figuring out the right balance for each user.

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There’s no political slant to the programming. by Ted Sarandos

There’s no political slant to the programming.

There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

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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.

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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending... by Ted Sarandos

There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

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I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'

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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

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Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

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