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What You Should Never Say To A Girl

Um, so, uh, uh, Matt King sent this in the group chat. He says Netflix has— he quoted this— Netflix, from an article, Netflix had 137 million subscribers during Q3 of 2018. Assuming the average subscription cost is $11, those people will pay $18 billion during 2019. So $100 million is 0.55% of $18 billion. So assuming more than 0.55% of customers cancel their subscription because Friends is no longer available, they are better off keeping it. Interesting numbers. Yeah, so $100 million is a lot, but if you think about it, if, if 1% of people cancel those subscriptions because of Friends being gone Netflix is losing money.

December 7, 201824:12David
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Jason24:05
Oh, at 8 years old, I think.
David24:09
So I was shitting myself.
Jason24:10
Late bloomer, huh? Yeah.
David24:12
Um, so, uh, uh, Matt King sent this in the group chat. He says Netflix has— he quoted this— Netflix, from an article, Netflix had 137 million subscribers during Q3 of 2018. Assuming the average subscription cost is $11, those people will pay $18 billion during 2019. So $100 million is 0.55% of $18 billion. So assuming more than 0.55% of customers cancel their subscription because Friends is no lo…
Jason24:55
Yeah, and plus it brings people in to watch all the shows that you don't know about.
David24:59
100%. Yeah, so $100 million is not crazy for Netflix. It's actually very smart, which is fucking—
Jason25:06
we've got to the bottom of it once again. Yeah, thanks for joining us today.