{"id":67320,"date":"2020-10-26T01:34:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=67320"},"modified":"2020-10-26T01:34:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:34:53","slug":"cuties-spells-subscription-doom-netflix-intense-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=67320","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cuties&#8217; spells subscription doom for Netflix after intense backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCuties\u201d turned out to be ugly for Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming service has watched subscription cancellations skyrocket by 800% after the French coming-of-age film\u00a0triggered a boycott\u00a0in early September, analyses show. Within two days of the movie\u2019s premiere, #CancelNetflix became the top trending topic on Twitter and a petition on Change.org garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s chief financial officer Spence Neumann didn\u2019t mention \u201cCuties\u201d in a third-quarter earnings call this week, instead focusing on the first half of the year, when coronavirus lockdowns nationwide drove subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Neumann told investors the company \u201ccame pretty close\u201d to meeting its membership goal of 195 million worldwide. For the three months that ended Sept. 30, Netflix added 2.2 million global subscribers \u2014 down from the first two quarters of 16 million and 10 million, respectively<\/p>\n\n<p>But numbers analyzed by New York data analytics firms Antenna and YipitData tell a different story \u2014 that the protest, led by conservatives who claim the film\u2019s portrayal of pre-teen girls living in Paris \u201chyper-sexualized\u201d children, had made a big dent in subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Antenna reported that Netflix\u00a0lost five times as many subscribers\u00a0in September\u2019s first couple of weeks \u2014 a few days into the protest \u2014 than the company lost in all of August.<\/p>\n<p>YipitData gave even grimmer numbers, putting September cancellations at 8 times of those in August and declaring the drop \u201ca multi-year high.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. 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Within two days of the movie\u2019s premiere, #CancelNetflix became the top trending topic on Twitter and a petition on Change.org garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[836],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Cuties&#039; spells subscription doom for Netflix after intense backlash - TheFastFashion.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=67320\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Cuties&#039; spells subscription doom for Netflix after intense backlash - TheFastFashion.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cCuties\u201d turned out to be ugly for Netflix. 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