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by lakechfoma 2908 days ago
How does he square that with the inundation of Netfix originals on the home page? HBO has a handful of quality shows. Neflix has a plethora of random titles, many of which (especially those created at Netflix and not acquired) are really not that good.
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That makes sense if you think like a major studio going after broad demographics, but it's not how Netflix thinks. They use their data to try and build global clusters of people.

It fails miserably for me, at least with their recommendations, but it seems to work for most people based on Netflix's stock price growth. Someone is out there watching those 5000 shows imported from China with no English dub, and in big enough numbers for Netflix to consider it a wise investment.