NETWORK MARKETING (Netflix Case) By Gracie Lee (B94705011 )‚ Jennifer Huang (B94705035)‚ Charles Virgile (A97749219)‚ Nicolas Valaize (A97749221)‚ Vincent Montmoreau‚ Fabien Palmero 1) Would you buy Blockbuster stock or short it at the time of the case? How about Netflix? Why? We would rather short stock of Blockbuster‚ since we conjecture that the price of it will decline. Our conjecture is based on the following reasons: A. Competitors: This is the main reason of our
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History Their main objectives at this time were to rent and sell DVDs over the Internet. Marc helped to start a computer mail order company called MicroWarehouse‚ vice-president of marketing for Borland International. Apart from his background‚ Hastings founded Pure Software‚ and sold it for a massive $700 million. With finances backed up‚ he supplied the startup cash of $2.5 million in order to get the project rolling. During the initial planning stages of Netflix‚ only a few video stores carried
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1. How strong are the competitive forces in the movie rental marketplace? I believe the competitive forces in the movie rental market place are very competitive and tough to stay in business. There are so many competitors that have and continue to take market share of the industry without any sign of it to be regained. This happens because of pricing and the medium in which that can be rented‚ sold or watched. These alternatives to rental are purchasing movie through retailers‚ renting through
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Overview: Prior to the prospectus of Netflix‚ Blockbuster dominated the home video market by opening 5‚194 retail outlets in U.S. and achieving ‘100% brand recognition with active movie renters’. The industry was largely based on retail outlets‚ which subscribers needed to visit physically and pay separate rent fees for each movie for a period between two days to one week. ‘Late fees’ will be charged to overdue rents‚ and these fees account for about 10% of Blockbuster’s revenue in 2004. Netflix
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Quentin Tarantino paints with a palette of the past. As a young man‚ he worked in a video store‚ studiously absorbing film. When he began creating movies himself‚ he construed the elements of classic cinematic storytelling into his own modern pastiche‚ this is what sets him apart‚ and why he is often considered the most influential filmmaker of the 90s. Nearly twenty-five years after his first major film Tarantino gives us his eighth film‚ The Hateful Eight. The Weinstein company has rolled out
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Identify and analyze the marketing issues at Netflix‚ Inc Netflix is an American on demand media provider. Netflix’s core product lines are online streaming‚ and DVD rental service. The on demand Internet streaming media is offered to people in the US‚ and 41 other countries‚ as Netflix is currently operating. Netflix began instant streaming in 2007. People can access their service through rental fees and subscription fees. Netflix market plan is to focus on online streaming‚ and they got over 36
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Strategic Position Statement Netflix is the world’s largest online movie rental service. We provide over 100‚000 choices of DVDs to more than eight million of our subscribers. We saw how the Internet is changing the way people buy and sell goods. We saw an opportunity in the movie rental industry and decided to provide a novel product and service from the convenience of ones home. Here’s how Netflix works. First Netflix customers choose which type of monthly package they want. They then make
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Introduction Blockbuster opened in 1985 and in its “first 20 years of business‚ the movie rental giant opened 9.100 stores in 25 countries” (Laudon‚ 2007‚ p. 121). Netflix launched in 1998 using a new business model and became Blockbusters biggest threat. The paradigm shift in the rental industry from having to travel to a store and rent a movie to being able to have a movie delivered to your mailbox changed the way people think about media entertainment. The next shift will be having the technology
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Blockbuster vs. Netflix: Which will win out? Blockbuster’s business model is selling and renting out videos/DVDS‚ and offering what the consumer wants in one of its 9‚100 brick and mortar locations in 25 countries. The business model was a huge success‚ dominating the video rental market by 40% of the U.S rental market. Now the industry and technology forces‚ that is challenging Blockbuster’s business model is the integration of the rentals online. Netflix has made this challenge by offering customers
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One hotly contested and highly competitive industry is the movie rental business. You can rent videos from local video rental stores‚ you can order pay-per-view from the comfort of your own home‚ and you can rent videos from the Web at such sites as NetFlix. Using Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ evaluate the relative attractiveness of entering the movie rental business. Is buyer power low or high? Is supplier power low or high? Which substitute products and services are perceived as threats? Can
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