Netflix’s Journey: Early Challenges and the Absence of Recommender Systems in Marc Randolph’s Vision
A recent 2-hour interview with Marc Randolph, the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, provides a fascinating look into the early days of the company....
Netflix creates personalized “Sizzles” (video previews)
Netflix announced that it is now personalizing the sizzles in the user interface. A sizzle reel is “a montage of video clips from different titles...
Netflix adds a ‘Double Like’ (Love) rating option
Netflix seems to have added a new type of rating. So far, Netflix had a binary rating (like and dislike). Yesterday, after finishing watching a...
Trends in Recommendations Systems – A Netflix Perspective (Upcoming Presentation by Anuj Shah, Senior ML Practitioner at Netflix)
On April 7th, 2022, the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) is hosting a presentation by Anuj Shah, Senior Machine Learning Research Practitioner at Netflix. The presentation...
Netflix launches ‘Downloads for You’: Automatic Downloads of Recommended Series and Movies
Three years after Netflix introduced ‘Smart Downloads‘, Patrick Flemming (Director, Product Innovation) announces ‘Downloads For You’. Downloads For You, a new feature that automatically downloads...
Against All Odds: Netflix, From Mail-Order DVD Rentals to Streaming Dominance [Shawn Knight @ TechSpot]
Shown Knight from Techspot writes about the history of Netflix and how Netflix evolved from a mail-order DVD rental to the world’s largest streaming service....