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Why is Netflix in the News?

  
  

Here is a company that had an interesting value proposition and beat out Blockbuster and reached the top of the mountain. Before the market punished it, the stock was trading at over $300 and was a Wall Street darling. As with any company, we love them when they are the scrappy competitor fighting the market leader and the minute they win, we hate them.

Netflix has many stakeholders. They have over 23 million loyal customers that help them crowdsource content, academics and analysts who like their business model and investors with stake in the company. Their customers love their wide selections, user interface and interactive website. People who follow and appreciate their business model like the fact that they constantly innovate and keep adding new enhancements to their service.

With the recent price changes that were implemented, Netflix has failed to communicate well with the stakeholder groups separately. The customer group had to be prepared for the change in service plans through early and direct communication. In addition, they shouldn’t be asked to deal with two separate companies – Qwikster and Netflix. As far as they are concerned, they should not have to understand the inner workings and the re-organization of the company into separate business units. They should simply logon to one site and the system should recognize their status and provide them with Qwikster or Netflix services. In fact, Netflix could use interactions to cross-sell or up-sell to different segments.

To the business model aficionados, Netflix should explain their supply chain and point out the cost drivers. The simple reality is that content providers are asking for a bigger piece of the action, quite similar to what Facebook had to deal with in the case of Zynga. The only point of leverage that Netflix has is their loyal and growing base of customers. Do they have enough to bargain with content providers? Content providers, on the other hand, could threaten to go directly to customers. The question is who blinks first.

While Reed Hastings wrote a blog and sent an email apologizing, I feel that he did not consider the stakeholders as unique entities. He implemented the same communication strategy for both groups. While it seems that Netflix has been around for a long time, it is still a young company in an emerging market. Various entities in the supply chain are fighting to determine their profit margins while a value migration is taking place. The outcome was expected, the communication plan was bungled. .

Posted by Bala Iyer on Sat, Sep 24, 2011 @ 11:45 AM

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