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#Netflixandchill takes off worldwide – subscriber boom means celebration @Netflix – an annotated infographic

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Netflix is booming on the back of its subscribers outside of the United States. The Silicon Valley-based streaming service added 9.9 million paid subscribers in the first six months of 2017. Last year Netflix burned through $1.7 billion creating original content – an estimated 126 series or films to offer something unique to its global web subscribers. Netflix is projecting an even wider gap in 2017, with free cash flow – that’s cash from operations minus capital expenditures – worsening to a $2 billion outflow. Netflix hasn’t had a positive free cash flow for three years and expects negative cash … Continue reading #Netflixandchill takes off worldwide – subscriber boom means celebration @Netflix – an annotated infographic

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Stream-ripping threatens music industry, as companies struggle to make streaming profitable – annotated infographics

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As if a beleaguered music industry didn’t already have enough to contend with, the rise of streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Pandora, Deezer and Tidal –  yes! even Tidal! – have changed the way many people listen to music. It has also brought about a new form of piracy, known as “stream ripping”. This new type of copyright infringement has overtaken conventional music download piracy. Click on the graphic for an expanded view. It’s not all days of wine and roses at the streaming companies, either. Spotify is the most successful streaming music service in the … Continue reading Stream-ripping threatens music industry, as companies struggle to make streaming profitable – annotated infographics

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World goes bonkers for music streaming services – an annotated infographic

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We never thought we’d say this, but: poor old CDs. On the one hand, vinyl sales are up, up, up 50 per cent year on year to a near 25-year high – higher sales, in fact, than at any time since 1991, when Nirvana’s Nevermind album first blew up radios worldwide. On the other hand, the majority of folks who never cared much for physical media have turned to streaming music services with a vengeance. No shelf space, no heartache. Even cassette tapes are enjoying a hipster renaissance, as a subset of the digital-generation music fans dig in to the … Continue reading World goes bonkers for music streaming services – an annotated infographic

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#NetflixNights go global as video streaming services pushes in to Australasia – an annotated infographic

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Good news for all red-eyed, telly-addicted, insomniac, pop culture vultures down under. Just months after pushing its service further across Europe, Netflix has announced that it will launch its video streaming service in Australia and New Zealand in 2015. Despite reservations periodically expressed about the quality of the Netflix service from some people – such as the limited breadth of titles on offer and the speed of streaming – this has apparently done little to stop the precipitously upward trajectory of its user base and share price. Since the company’s IPO in 2002, when shares traded at a modest $15, … Continue reading #NetflixNights go global as video streaming services pushes in to Australasia – an annotated infographic