{"id":7951,"date":"2013-02-04T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2013-02-04T00:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T05:35:10","slug":"the-economics-of-house-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-house-of-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of House Of Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/020413_0533_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re anything like us you spent a good part of the week making your way through Netflix&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/?s=house+of+cards\">House of Cards<\/a>. Rebecca Greenfield looked at the economics of the show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The show costs Netflix about $50 million a season to produce.<\/li>\n<li>Netflix intends to have five new shows of a similar scale every year.<\/li>\n<li>Yet most of its revenue comes from people paying $7.99 a month for a streaming subscription. It doesn&#8217;t use ads to top up that revenue.<\/li>\n<li>If Netflix wants to recoup the costs of producing the shows then the shows need to attract 2.6 million new individuals who subscribe for two years.<\/li>\n<li>Yet for Netflix this would be an increase of less than 10%. Last year Netflix increased its US membership by about 13%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the dynamics of Netflix&#8217;s big bet over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/technology\/2013\/02\/economics-netflixs-100-million-new-show\/61692\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/technology\/2013\/02\/economics-netflixs-100-million-new-show\/61692\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like us you spent a good part of the week making your way through Netflix&#8217;s latest House of Cards. Rebecca Greenfield looked at the economics of the show: The show costs Netflix about $50 million a season to produce. Netflix intends to have five new shows of a similar scale every year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/020413_0533_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}