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“Franchise are nice but what you want are hits,” says Sarandos. Says things like Stranger Things are big world building franchises that can be expanded upon. — PolitiTweet.org

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Games will be primarily focused on mobile and part of the subscription, says Sarandos. No hard deadline — “when it’s ready for prime time.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Sarandos looks at games like “any other vertical,” like scripted and movies and foreign language content. — PolitiTweet.org

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The next biggest crossover hit on Netflix is something called Squid Games, Sarandos says — PolitiTweet.org

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Kara asks what Sarandos likes. He says Ted Lasso and “a show on HBO Max called…” and I was really hoping for F Boy Island but he said The Other Two. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Most talent wants to be on the place that they’re watching and their kids are watching and their friends are watching, and that’s Netflix,” Sarandos says about pitching talent. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The one thing about data when it comes to creation is you have to be careful not to use it too much. Reverse-engineering storytelling is a disaster,” says Sarandos — PolitiTweet.org

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“It’s a nice marketing platform for sure, but there are more effective ones,” Sarandos says in regards to Apple TV+ — PolitiTweet.org

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Sarandos says making dedicated devices is “not important” for Netflix. — PolitiTweet.org

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“You can’t look at the world and say how do we protect our business. You have to look at the world and say what do people want,” Sarandos says when asked about the future theatrical movie releases — PolitiTweet.org

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“We really compete with ourselves. The thing I’m most focused on is internal execution,” says Sarandos when asked about Disney, HBO Max, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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“If you look at trends in the history of television, they happen in 20 year cycles. If you look at [current TV trends] over the next 20 years, you probably won’t even be able to identify Covid,” says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandon at Code. — PolitiTweet.org

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And I am interviewing Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana tomorrow! — PolitiTweet.org

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Y’all. The Code Conference is back. @backlon @alexeheath and I are here. Satya Nadella, Ted Sarandos, and Lisa Su today. Elon tomorrow! And many more: https://t.co/MJM6ADGUB9 https://t.co/40Ku6v9LKh — PolitiTweet.org

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Somewhere the people who make the For Dummies books are feeling the cold wind of disruption. "Should we learn to dance" reads a hastily prepared slide presentation — PolitiTweet.org

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The definition of a platform is when it can support dudes getting rich on TikTok explaining how the features work — PolitiTweet.org

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@erigion @AgentMcBride Yeah it’s gotta be the feeds NBC controls directly — PolitiTweet.org

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They’re really gonna run this every few minutes for the whole game huh https://t.co/0k0jcWIi0C — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexjimithing I do, watching on my iPhone in a cab! — PolitiTweet.org

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(Disclosure NBCU is an investor in Vox Media, etc etc) — PolitiTweet.org

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NBC and YouTube TV are in a carriage dispute, and NBC has decided to not screw around. Fun that the oldest and most boring arguments in media have been updated for the modern era! https://t.co/Y42UAkK674 — PolitiTweet.org

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@thierylaverdure Then why do other TV apps have it enabled? — PolitiTweet.org

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@leomvck @adamnash @orenjacob The apps are running on your phone! Same w Android Auto — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is what YouTube’s head of product told me on Decoder when I asked about it - hard to think what issues DirecTV was able to solve *with the NFL* that Google cannot https://t.co/hCqjsHcNlU https://t.co/3AzeNlIRVD — PolitiTweet.org

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The DirecTV Sunday Ticket app supports pip on the iPhone but YouTube TV does not, which is pretty sad for YouTube — PolitiTweet.org

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@leomvck @adamnash @orenjacob Sure - CarPlay is itself basically just like attaching an external monitor to the phone — PolitiTweet.org

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@exchgr tremendous — PolitiTweet.org

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@slashkevin ! Love that planes are like a parallel dongle evolution situation at all times — PolitiTweet.org

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CarPlay, but for airline seatback screens — PolitiTweet.org

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Amazing how competition works https://t.co/elnqFKFzKz https://t.co/FJ4D4jud9L — PolitiTweet.org