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Organisation

Netflix

Netflix contributed to Online video and streaming platforms, Recommendation Algorithms and Personalised Feeds. YouTube’s 2005 launch lowered the practical barrier to uploading and sharing video through the Web, while subscription services such as Netflix turned catalogues into continuously delivered personalised libraries.

Type
company or platform
Known for
Online video and streaming platforms, Recommendation Algorithms and Personalised Feeds
Historical role

What the organisation contributed

YouTube’s 2005 launch lowered the practical barrier to uploading and sharing video through the Web, while subscription services such as Netflix turned catalogues into continuously delivered personalised libraries. Netflix and other media services made recommender evaluation a visible engineering and research domain.

Why it mattered

Reduces scheduled-channel, physical-copy and specialised-distribution barriers to global audiovisual publication and on-demand playback. Selects and orders a manageable recipient-specific subset when available information exceeds manual attention.

Connected topics

Where this fits in ITEM

Online video and streaming platformsRecommendation Algorithms and Personalised Feeds
Evidence

Sources and further reading

  1. Optimizing the Netflix Streaming Experience with Data Science,

    Netflix Technology Blog · 2014

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  2. Per-Title Encode Optimization,

    Netflix Technology Blog · 2015

    Open source ↗

  3. The Netflix Recommender System: Algorithms, Business Value, and Innovation, ACM TMIS, 2016

    Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe, Neil Hunt · 2016

    Open source ↗