Power Players: Has Netflix hit a wall?
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Power Players: Has Netflix hit a wall?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202624 min
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Netflix transformed the entertainment industry, changing how audiences around the world discover and consume media. But after announcing plans to cut 1,000 jobs and losing its content and film chiefs, questions are growing about the streaming giant's future. Has Netflix reached a turning point, or does it still have room to grow? Will Bain and Rahul Tandon are joined by Simon Gallagher, a former Netflix head of content and acquisition who worked with co-founder Reed Hastings and later at Hulu. Producer: Matt Lines You can email the team: [email protected]

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. ...and the Over the past almost three decades Netflix has completely disrupted and transformed the way we watch our favourite shows and films. But in a twist worthy of one of its bingeable

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dramas the apex hunter seems now to be the hunted. And it's telling the world as much this year with high stakes, gambles and potential mega mergers to a squid game-esque round of brutal executive elimination just this week. So today on Power Players from Business Daily has Netflix hit a wall.

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Yes, welcome back to the programme. I'm Will Bain here in BBC HQ. I'm Rahul Tandon here in a studio in the north of England and we're getting with the The times we got cameras in our radio studio here as well. That is part of the modern world as we'll be hearing through the programme about Netflix

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