They could try, but in the Afrostream case, could they catch up with the community we build. I mean, we have 72k facebook page fans, and a lot of their bought a one year subscription because they are ignored about their movie needs in first case. I am the first fans of my fans too.
Let's face it : Netflix could do that, but they have one year to catch up, fight is on
Netflix is huge. No offense, but I doubt they'd have to do much "catching up" with the userbase. Most of your subscribers are probably already Netflix subscribers and would be happy to cut their monthly expenditures by unsubscribing from your service once Netflix offers the same content. Your play would be original content and/or exclusive licensing that makes it so Netflix can't easily duplicate your service, at least not without years of waiting for licensing contracts to expire. This is the same dilemma Netflix faced as content producers started to ask why they can't just cut Netflix out, and Netflix solved it with compelling original content.
It seems part of your argument is that your content is so niche, Netflix would rather spend licensing money on content that has broader appeal, which is fine, except that its totally dependent on Netflix not changing its strategy, and that's a bad basis for a sustainable business.
As i said, I hate the world Niche, and I never use it only to say I hated this word,
African descent movies are so diverse. We have an African Diaspora all over the world which produce a ton of contents you never saw, you don't even know their existence and thant's our goal to diversify the point of view of a maximum of people. Yes Netflix has resources, a lot of resources but we know our market well. They need to catch up, that's my word for now, fight is on
"They have to raise prices or start offering mix&match packages" makes sense to me. Since they seem to resist this, it locks them out of these sorts of markets. Is that a good idea? Well, that's above my pay grade....
