Netflix Spends Almost All Of Its Money Making Original Content

Netflix built its streaming empire on other people’s content. Whether it was movies or shows that had already made a name for themselves, Netflix snapped them up and hid them behind a fancy recommendation algorithm, serving up the ones it felt were right for you. While the algorithm remains and is strengthened every time you click on something to watch, what you are actually choosing is changing and it’s not because of your tastes, but because Netflix is adding more of its original content to its archive and spending lots on it. “The creators we’re talking to, they watch Netflix and they want to be on our network,” he said to Variety.