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The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million Show
> With Netflix spending a reported $100 million to produce two 13-episode seasons of House of Cards, they need 520,834 people to sign up for a $7.99 subscription for two years to break even.
Isn't that ignoring profit vs income?
DavidSJ
on Feb 4, 2013
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When Netflix owns the content, their marginal costs per subscriber are near zero -- essentially just bandwidth and compute fees.
sksksk
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But out of those new subscribers, you need to filter out people who would have subscribed even if Netflix didn't have House of Cards
JackpotDen
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surely they have the tech to query up the number of new users that watched house of cards?
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Isn't that ignoring profit vs income?