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Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc. was once a highly successful and profitable brick and mortar home movie and video game rental store. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster had up to 60,000 employees and more than 9,000 stores. The idea behind Netflix came from an unsatisfied, embarrassed customer of Blockbuster, Mr. Reed Hastings, now CEO of Netflix, paid a $40 late fee because he returned the movie Apollo 13 six weeks later (Zarafshar, 2013). He began to contemplate ingeniously about a notion to change the movie-leasing pattern into a more pioneering industry. In 1997 Netflix was started as a DVD rental-by-mail business without subscriptions. In 1999, taking a stride additional in the direction of evolving the industry, Hastings began the subscription-based business mode based on renting DVDs by mail with plans reliant on the quantity of titles taken at a time. Netflix put forward 120,000 titles for limitless monthly DVD rental with free shipping no late and per title fees. Since that time Netflix has become one of the most popular subscription services in the world, and is now valued at over $28 billion and steadily increasing. What factors contributed to the success and failure of these two companies?

In 2000 Blockbuster had the opportunity to purchase rival, Netflix but failed to envision Netflix’s potential. The founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, met with then CEO of Blockbuster, John Antioco, to

Blockbuster was a provider of home movie and video game rental services through rental stores, DVD by mail, streaming, video on demand, and Cinema Theater. Everyone was a fan of Blockbuster in the 1990s. It was founded by David Cook in 1985; he opened his first store in Dallas, Texas. When this company first started, that had a limited video selection, but they still grew rapidly. They became one of the world’s largest providers of in-home movies and game entertainment. Blockbuster had more 8,000 VHS tapes in more than 6,500 titles. What made the store different from the others is that they displayed their movies on the shelves, they kept the doors open later than any regular video store, and they didn’t sell any adult films because it was

The first failure of Blockbuster’s strategies, which lead it to bankruptcy, was the negative relationship with their consumers. While Netflix’s chief executive, Reed Hastings, recognized the technology had been grown rapidly and would change the transmission of movie rental industry, Blockbuster’s CEO, James Keyes, believed that consumers would still prefer to the brick-and-mortar rental structure. Thus, Keyes planned to focus on expanding Blockbuster’s stores into various departments

Like many companies that have gotten in trouble, Blockbuster lost track of its number one asset, its customers. They also suffered from a lot of technological issues (the late adoption of DVD's for example) as well. Unfortunately, the customer issue seems to be more basic. This was not the case to begin with. Like any small business that makes it and grows, Blockbuster decimated the local mom and pop video stores by supplying over 8000 video rentals and also by renting video games, removing pornographic movies and by staying open every night until midnight. However, like many large companies, it became content and did not keep up with customer demands and expectations. Unfortunately, Blockbuster would frequently not have the videos in DVD format that the customers wanted, or they would not have what the customers. However, ever more telling was its failure to look at what competitors were doing. Competitor Netflix in 1999 began providing DVDs by mail. While at several

Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix in Los Gatos, California in 1997. Between 1998-2000, Netflix launched its online rentals, sales, subscription service, and a system of recommendations that can predict a consumer’s choice (Netflix). In May 2002, Netflix announced its first public offering led by Merrill Lynch. They offered over 5 million shares of common stock for $15 per share.

Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in 1997 and was originally based out of Scotts Valley California. The business model that they were working towards was to create a company that would offer online movie rental service made available by streaming media as well as DVD’s that could be ordered online and delivered to the customers’ homes. (Wheelen, Case 12). Netflix had a strategic plan to undercut the competition in an effort to stress the market and force weaker competition out of the field. This was a very successful plan and over a period of years it was able to force the closings of most of its competing market to include the mega giant Blockbuster video. Using a business

Over the past 18 years, Netflix has greatly evolved, changing the way movies and television shows are watched. It was founded in 1998 by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings as a DVD mail-order service. Netflix knew that it had to grow and innovate in order to compete with other big-name movie rental services such as Blockbuster and Redbox. Because of this, both Randolph and Hastings decided to integrate streaming in 2007. Although one could only stream on a desktop or a laptop,

Blockbuster Video was a dominant entity of home rental entertainment from the mid-1980s through the end of the 20th century. With thousands of video choices ranging from family to action,

The video rental industry began with brick and mortar store that rented VSH tape. Enhanced internet commerce and the advent of the DVD provided a opportunity for a new avenue for securing movie rentals. In 1998 Netflix headquartered in Los Gatos California began operations as a regional online movie rental company. While the firm demonstrated that a market for online rentals existed, it was not financially successfully. Netflix lost over $11 million in 1998 and as a result significantly changed the business model in 2000. The new strategy included focusing on becoming a nationally based subscription model and focusing on enhancing the subscribers experience on their website. The change in

Blockbuster was too confident in their brand and their reach that failed to see the threat from the online rental business, meanwhile Netflix took advantage of their slow entrance to build a market and leverage on growing technology (DVD) that took off really quickly.

When Netflix was established in 1998, it shook the whole video rental industry by delivering the services that customers actually wanted. It was not about the movies it had in stock, because these were the same with Blockbuster or any other established video rental business. To them it was about how customers can get the best out of what they had to offer.

Netflix, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings, has achieved its goal of becoming the largest online movie rental service in the world. By the end of 2007, Netflix recorded revenues of $1.2 billion. With a library of 100,000 movie titles and a subscriber base of over

Netflix‘s business model and strategy compare closely to its key rivals. Although, Netflix won a patent that covered much of its business model and could be used to help stifle competition in the future (Thompson C-33) . Netflix has a team of executives that manage only the on-line DVD rental enterprise. They are well established and use a very sophisticated software program thereby making movie selection easy and fun. In my analysis, Blockbuster has many retail stores to contend with and many other facets of a business enterprise, thereby not having a unique team of individuals solely dedicated to the on-line DVD rental business. Wal-Mart would be Netflix’s greatest fear due to the enormous capital available and expertise that could be employed, yet Wal-Mart continues to lag behind Netflix. Wal-Mart’s online software needs a lot of debugging, whereas Netflix had already spent several years debugging its software (Thompson C-37).

Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded Netflix in 1997 in California. It is said that the idea came to Hastings after having to pay $40 in overdue fines for returning Apollo 13 to late. Netflix was originally a website (launched on August 29, 1997) that rented DVDs through rental posting and a traditional pay-per-rental model. In the early 2000, Netflix dropped this model and