Netflix plans to release 60 original programs in 2017, and along the way, it expects to spend $6 million. How does the streaming video platform keep its acquisition budget lean and efficient, even as it massively increases the amount of content it distributes? With AI, apparently.
A recent report from Business Insider details ultimately-doomed negotiations between documentary filmmaker Craig Atkinson and Netflix. Among other points, Atkinson shares a conversation between his lawyer Jody Simon and a Netflix lawyer, the latter of whom told Simon Netflix had used an algorithm to determine how much it should pay for Atkinson’s film.
Atkinson entered into conversations with Netflix shortly before his documentary Do Not Resist premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. As he tells it, the streaming platform’s lawyer acted as if the figure generated by Netflix’s algorithm was immutable. "During the course of the conversation our lawyer had with the Netflix lawyer,...
A recent report from Business Insider details ultimately-doomed negotiations between documentary filmmaker Craig Atkinson and Netflix. Among other points, Atkinson shares a conversation between his lawyer Jody Simon and a Netflix lawyer, the latter of whom told Simon Netflix had used an algorithm to determine how much it should pay for Atkinson’s film.
Atkinson entered into conversations with Netflix shortly before his documentary Do Not Resist premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. As he tells it, the streaming platform’s lawyer acted as if the figure generated by Netflix’s algorithm was immutable. "During the course of the conversation our lawyer had with the Netflix lawyer,...
- 12/26/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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