[plasma]

I’d enjoy seeing a more creative approach to recommendations for something as big as Netflix.

A few suggestions:

1. Review channels by genre

2. Trailer TV - let me leave a “comedy” trailer channel running that shows the trailer and movie rating and details at the bottom, let me easily skip to the next trailer (or let it play out)

[prepend]

I think Netflix doesn’t have enough content to do this. They have their own originals and just a thin layer of other stuff.

So I think any truly personalized content channel would get exhausted quickly.

What I’d like to have is just a channel of curated or semi curated movie content that I can leave running or forward through to watch.

I recently stayed in a hotel with 6 channels of hbo. It’s kind of refreshing to have “hbo comedy” with random stuff like Beverly Hills cop and billy Madison on at 2pm in the afternoon.

Netflix doesn’t have enough content to do this, so they keep recommending the same crap originals to me over and over, knowing that I don’t watch them.

[Elidrake24]

…Huh? Netflix has more originals at this point then HBO has across their entire library. That’s ignoring the licensed content Netflix also pays for.

I can appreciate that you may not like said content, but they certainly aren’t lacking.

[prepend]

HBO licenses more movies. In my week in my hotel room I haven’t watched a single “hbo original.”

So Netflix does have more original content, I don’t care. I want to watch shows and movies and don’t care what studio produces them.

Can you imagine only listening to Spotify produced music? Or Apple Music or something?

[albertsondev]

It isn't, however, ignoring the exclusively licensed content Netflix also pays for, which the bulk of their "originals" are.

[smnrchrds]

Anything can beat their current algorithm of "push people towards our originals, preferences be damned".

EDIT: I should add in terms of customer satisfaction, not revenue. I am sure forcing their originals down people's throats is great for their revenues.

[echelon]

Licensed content costs them more. Users that consume licensed content are worth less if that's all they consume.

[rurp]

Well yeah, that's what is in Netflix's interest, but there's a reason many companies succeeded by focus on improving the user's experience. I guess Netflix has a a different approach.

[CoolGuySteve]

I'd just like to tell Netflix I want to go to bed in 40 minutes so play something about that long.