{"id":94037,"date":"2020-10-21T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/netflix-will-offer-its-library-for-free-to-indian-non-subscribers-for-a-weekend\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T05:27:42","slug":"netflix-will-offer-its-library-for-free-to-indian-non-subscribers-for-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/netflix-will-offer-its-library-for-free-to-indian-non-subscribers-for-a-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"#Netflix will offer its library for free to Indian non-subscribers for a weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Netflix will offer its library for free to Indian non-subscribers for a weekend<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/02\/Netflix-796x417.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            Earlier this month, Netflix said that it\u2019s ending the 30-day long free trial that it used to entice people into getting a sub<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion. Today, during its earnings call, the\u00a0company stated that it\u2019s exploring new ways for people to experience its library before they get a subscription.<\/p>\n<p>The first test the streaming giant is performing is a free weekend-long trial. The company will start this experiment in India, where it\u2019ll offer its service for free on the weekend of December 4, as reported by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/bulletins\/after-discontinuing-free-trials-netflix-plans-streamfest-promotion\">Protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>India is the first of many countries where Netflix will test this two-day \u201cStreamfest\u201d to hopefully gain more subscribers. The company would want to compete with Disney+ Hotstar in the market, which has more than <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/04\/08\/disney-plus-hotstar-subscribers-india\/\">8 million subscribers in the country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[Read: What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US presidential election]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe think that giving everyone in a country access to Netflix for free for a weekend could be a great way to expose a bunch of new people to the amazing stories that we have, the service, how the service works, really create an event, and hopefully get a bunch of those folks to sign up. So we\u2019re going to try that in India,\u201d Greg Peters, the chief operating officer for the company, said on the earnings call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Netflix has tried various ways to promote its service in a content-crazy market. Last year, it launched a mobile-only subscription plan for Indian users at \u20b9199 (~$3) a month. The company has also tested <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.hindustantimes.com\/tech\/news\/netflix-starts-testing-rs-65-mobile-only-weekly-plan-in-india-story-1LQGXEiuMqRbgpnbpbrffK.html#:~:text=Netflix%20has%20three%20more%20weekly,two%20screens%20at%20a%20time.\">byte-sized weekly plans<\/a> in the country starting from under $1 for a mobile-only subscription. The company also said it\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-12-06\/netflix-is-spending-420-million-on-indian-content-ceo-says\">committed than $420 million<\/a> to produce local content in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technology category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/in\/2020\/10\/21\/netflix-will-offer-its-library-for-free-to-indian-non-subscribers-for-a-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Netflix will offer its library for free to Indian non-subscribers for a weekend&#8221; Earlier this month, Netflix said that it\u2019s ending the 30-day long free trial that it used to entice people into getting a subscription. Today, during its earnings call, the\u00a0company stated that it\u2019s exploring new ways for people to experience its library before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/02\/Netflix.jpg&signature=9e159b713f395912d6b4035dc3011e0d","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[17318,1377,76553],"class_list":["post-94037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-india","tag-netflix","tag-subscription-business-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}