The Hollywood Goliaths should have been more wary of this David who came straight from Silicon Valley.
Netflix, a threat?
Funny joke.
“
It's a bit like asking if the Albanian army can succeed in conquering the world!
», quips Jeff Bewkes, the powerful boss of Time Warner, the cable and television giant.
The manager is one of the guests at the prestigious Global Media and Communications conference, organized in New York by the investment bank UBS, in December 2010. And he speaks in front of the elite of the media industry , entertainment and telecommunications.
At that time, the “Albanian army” did not yet reign supreme over video streaming: confined to the United States, it had just crossed the Canadian border.
However, it is no longer the unknown outsider of DVD rental by mail from its beginnings, in 1997. Not only is the service for distributing films and series, via the internet and post, booming…
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