On: The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million Show

[reustle]

> With Netflix spending a reported $100 million to produce two 13-episode seasons of House of Cards, they need 520,834 people to sign up for a $7.99 subscription for two years to break even.

Isn't that ignoring profit vs income?

[DavidSJ → reustle]

When Netflix owns the content, their marginal costs per subscriber are near zero -- essentially just bandwidth and compute fees.

[sksksk → DavidSJ]

But out of those new subscribers, you need to filter out people who would have subscribed even if Netflix didn't have House of Cards

[JackpotDen → sksksk]

surely they have the tech to query up the number of new users that watched house of cards?