Disney+ has a shared viewing mode. Amazon's Prime does, too. There's even a "Netflix Party" Chrome extension available in the Google Play store. So, why won't Netflix launch the feature?
Thanks for sharing Gib! I was thinking hard about this recently... until I tried the Group Watch feature on Disney+. I was excited to share a holiday classic with our families. It was a cruddy experience. There was no connection other than our devices that could pause/play each other. It wasn't a shared viewing experience like I had hoped.
I think that's what people are looking for but in reality, a remote shared movie experience is at best... cruddy. Who wants to watch someone else watching a movie? Who wants to be interrupted by others when they're watching a movie? I'm sure there's some use cases where this will work beautifully. I really like the 20% perspectives for adoption. If it doesn't hit a critical threshold (20%), then let's try other things that we think will.
How about conversations around a movie ? You see a movie and then you start a conversation about it with your close friends. That already happens off Netflix....also in this world of overflowing content, some people want to checkout curated 'lists'...maybe a few influencers could share lists of their fav movies...
Thanks for sharing Gib! I was thinking hard about this recently... until I tried the Group Watch feature on Disney+. I was excited to share a holiday classic with our families. It was a cruddy experience. There was no connection other than our devices that could pause/play each other. It wasn't a shared viewing experience like I had hoped.
I think that's what people are looking for but in reality, a remote shared movie experience is at best... cruddy. Who wants to watch someone else watching a movie? Who wants to be interrupted by others when they're watching a movie? I'm sure there's some use cases where this will work beautifully. I really like the 20% perspectives for adoption. If it doesn't hit a critical threshold (20%), then let's try other things that we think will.
How about conversations around a movie ? You see a movie and then you start a conversation about it with your close friends. That already happens off Netflix....also in this world of overflowing content, some people want to checkout curated 'lists'...maybe a few influencers could share lists of their fav movies...