Netflix wants to issue more preview accounts for testing content
Streaming service Netflix has the plan to allow more people to its preview program. Within this program, people can test new content to check whether it is something for Netflix and in which category it fits best. The program already exists, but now the streaming service would like to add tens of thousands of new users.
Netflix Preview Club
The Wall Street Journal writes based on anonymous sources that the Netflix Preview Club is looking for more members. Currently there are only two thousand and only in the United States. With such a preview account you get to see the film or series months before it is on the streaming service. However, it is a bit skewed that people in the United States determine what the rest of the world wants to see (although of course it has always been that way, given the status of Hollywood).
Such a preview is quite normal in Hollywood. There, films and series are always subjected to a small audience before they officially leave for the cinema or television (or, increasingly, the streaming service). Studios test how the audience reacts to the content in all kinds of ways, a bit like a try-out in the theater. Let’s see which jokes work, which don’t, how people feel afterwards and what rating people would give the movie or series in the first place.
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Netflix would like to see more diversity in the preview team and that includes people from outside the United States. The Flix has not yet indicated whether it wants to expand in certain countries or whether it will be open to people around the world, for example. Many people probably want to participate: after all, you will be one of the first people in the world to see the latest films and series. Plus: that preview program actually appears to have an influence on the content itself. For example, the film Don’t Look Up has become funnier after panelists said it was too serious.
The Netflix Preview Club seems to be very new. At the beginning of this year, new Netflix subscribers were asked to join the preview program.
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