Today I come to bring you 5 facts about Netflix that you may not know yet and be surprised by some of them. It is worth remembering that this is the largest streaming platform in Brazil, practically all Brazilians have heard of the company.
And yet, Netflix is excellent for those people who love to marathon series and even some movie sequels. Anyway, enough rambling and let's finally talk about these 5 facts about Netflix that you may not know.
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5- It's Older Than Google
It might sound crazy, but what if I told you that Netflix is older than Google? Know that this fact is an extremely absolute truth, as Google was founded in 1998, Netflix in 1997.
In other words, Netflix is about a year older than one of the biggest search engines in the world. To be more specific, the streaming platform was born on August 29, 1997, but what about Google? The research site and today one of the largest companies in the world was born on September 4, 1998.
4- Who else consumes Netflix?
THE marketer, which is a market research company, decided to research which people used Netflix the most in the world. And as we can already imagine, the North American people are the North American people who alone leads this Ranking in terms of the number of active users.
It is estimated that about 64.5% of people living in the United States actively watch a movie, series or documentary on the Streaming platform. That is, 64 out of every 100 North Americans consume the company's productions. Then there are the Norwegians and Canadians.
3- It was called “Kibble”
Third in this list of 5 facts about Netflix we will talk about its name, which at first has nothing to do with the current one. Right when the company was born, several names were tested and one of them was “Kibble”, but why did it get that name?
Marc Randolph is the founder of Netflix and he had a little dog named “Kibble”, so the platform was named after that. I bet you most likely you didn't know and had no idea that Netflix ever had this name.
2- Time to Choose What to Watch
Most likely you've seen some memes on the internet saying that we usually take a long time to choose what to watch on the platform. And that, however, at the end of it all, we ended up choosing something repetitive to watch, that is, something that at some point we have already watched.
However, the company is working to change this scenario, studying a way to make program referral services more accurate.
1- Oscar nomination
First on this list of 5 interesting facts about Netflix, I'm going to tell you one that I'm pretty sure you didn't know. The streaming platform already owes a production nominated for the award, which is the biggest award in world cinema.
And in case you are curious or curious, this fact occurred in the year 2013 and a documentary was nominated for an Oscar award. This documentary is an Egyptian-American production called The square, which addresses the troubled political period that Egypt was going through.
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