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Feb 2018
24m 57s

Netflix vs Blockbuster - The Way We Watc...

Wondery
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Netflix goes from being a streaming company to a movement in which consumers all over the world decide what show to watch -- and when and how they watch them. The future that Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph envisioned two decades earlier has arrived. The unfettered reign of cable television has ended. The war for streaming viewers will become richer. And mor ... Show More
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