Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandosis an American businessman. He serves as the Chief Content Officer for Netflix...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 July 1964
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
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I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.