Julia Alexander
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609 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
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It's what TikTok dominates.
And they're trying to figure out they being Netflix.
how to make some of those formats work on its own platform.
And then there's the other side of the equation, which is, can we be eventually down the road a $40 a month premium offering if we have the vast majority of licensed content that people want and original content?
So I think you're seeing them make both bets at the same time.
I think that's part of it.
And if you certainly look at why Netflix could never become HBO, we often forget people in the industry that HBO was always small.
HBO had a small, dedicated base and it benefited from the cable ecosystem, you know, like the greatest capitalist invention in history.
The idea that they could just be a part of a different service or part of a service that people wanted because they also wanted ESPN and ESPN2 and like
ESPN 8 or whatever else existed, meant that they could kind of be within this system and reap the rewards of it, even if they had a very small base overall compared to kind of what the Disney networks and the NBC Universal networks and the Paramount networks.
When you're Netflix and you're operating at scale, when you have 325 million global members, when you're kind of putting out these massive projects and trying to appeal to everyone, you can't be HBO.
And so I think part of the realization for someone like Reed Hastings or now, of course, Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos was if we're not going to become HBO, because we're not going to make these kind of offbeat, witty comedies or these kind of dense dramas.
And that's all we're going to do.
Then we can just buy them.
HBO became much more appealing post kind of.
the 2018, 2019 AT&T acquisition, and then really going into the 2022 WarnerMedia acquisition.
When they started to do more Game of Thrones stuff and spinoffs, they started to do more DC stuff.
They started to do a lot more kind of genre IP, which is where they see the vast majority of their big engagement happen is on those IP shows that you can see working under someone like Bella Bejaria, who's the head of content at Netflix, while Casey Bloys, who's the head of HBO, can continue doing what works really well for HBO.
The thing about library, which is, again, the most important part of this conversation, is that it's really hard to build up a library in the time that Netflix needs to.
Warner Brothers, including all the things that come with it, is 100 years old.
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