All looked bright for the company, but in July, Netflix announced they would be changing their subscriber price structure on September 1, 2011, increasing the monthly fees by $6 without any improvement in service. Speculations were positive and even Wall Street thought the change would do the company good. But that didn’t happen. Last week, their stock prices took a dive of almost 19 percent.
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If you haven’t heard the news yet, Sony movies have been temporarily pulled from Netflix’s streaming service. The reason? Netflix is becoming too popular.
But as the saying goes popularity comes with a price. The company is possibly the biggest source of Internet traffic in North America. As Netflix’s popularity grows so does the rights to stream TV shows, movies and other content to its subscribers, hurting the net profit.
It seems like the more successful Netflix gets the less cooperative their content providers become. Is Netflix digging its own grave with its success?
Starz Entertainment will enter the social-media-gaming arena with a Facebook game to help promote the Jan. 21 debut of six-episode original series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and the premium cable network said the game, Gods of the Arena, will be available to the first 10,000 fans who register on Facebook starting Jan. 6, Multichannel News reported.
Gods of the Arena puts players in charge of their own gladiator schools, where they must assemble and train teams of up to nine gladiators, with the eventual goal of placing their fighters in the Roman Empire’s top arenas, according to Multichannel News.
Starz also announced the launch of an iPad app Jan. 17 that will offer screenplays from Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Gods of the Arena is the prequel to Blood and Sand), with the app available for free download with the script to the first episode, “The Red Serpent,” and additional scripts available for $0.99 apiece after the installments debut on Starz, Multichannel News reported.
