ISU

Corporate greed
Netflix

Aarujan Sotheeswaran, Anas Elmady, JohnCarlo Holden

June 1’st 2023
HSB4U1
Teacher: Ms. Singh
Introduction:

● Corporate greed/ Greed in marketing

We all know about companies attempts to make more money, since enough is never enough. Human beings
have never been content with what we have, and this common influence has been the cause of many major
incidents throughout history. For example

❖ The british empire literally owning everything 80 years ago

❖ Germany got greedy (twice)
❖ Hendrick lucifer was pirate and wanted gold, so unalived for it
❖ Indigenous people get kicked out (multiple times)

The point is greed has been a consistently occurring factor throughout history. Companies are no better.

Anas
Springboard Article:
Our springboard article was an article by the CBC.

Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-password-sharing-1.6741484

Anas
Springboard Article:
● Netflix claims their earnings will dip for a short while, but will begin to rise soon
enough

● The company believes that people will cancel their subscriptions, but return when
they realize they still enjoy the service

● Netflix has admitted that they are trying to collect as much money from users as
possible by not allowing people to access friends or family member’s accounts for
free

Anas
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Introduction:
● Hypothesis: we believe that Netflix users will reject or will be against the idea of
password sharing restrictions as this negatively affects anyone who uses the platform.

We believed that Netflix users would reject the idea because of the idea of paying more money
for the same platform, or not having as much freedom with the shows they currently watch.
The current plans they have available are:

Anas
Standard with Ads for $5.99/mo
- Ad-supported, all but a few movies and TV shows available, unlimited mobile games

- Watch on 2 supported devices at a time

- Watch in Full HD

Anas
Basic $9.99/mo
- Unlimited ad-free movies, TV shows, and mobile games

- Watch on 1 supported device at a time

- Watch in HD

- Download on 1 supported device at a time

Anas
Standard $16.49/mo
- Unlimited ad-free movies, TV shows, and mobile games

- Watch on 2 supported devices at a time

- Watch in Full HD

- Download on 2 supported devices at a time

- Option to add 1 extra member who doesn't live with you

Anas
Premium $20.99/mo
- Unlimited ad-free movies, TV shows, and mobile games

- Watch on 4 supported devices at a time

- Watch in Ultra HD

- Download on 6 supported devices at a time

- Option to add up to 2 extra members who don't live with you

- Netflix spatial audio Anas

Introduction:
We believe that Netflix users will reject the idea because:

● corporate greed is mainly an attempt to draw as much potential profits from users as
possible

● It will diminish the user experience by raising prices or adding ads to a cheaper plan, or
limiting the user’s freedom in viewing on the go

● Netflix has been more open about their attempts to take as much money from their users
as possible with this newer system

Anas
Method:
subjects/participants Materials procedures

● We used Google forms ● Before the survey was sent

● Our survey subjects out to the grade 12’s by
for the survey and we
consisted of grade 12 email, the survey was made
used google sheets to
students contacted anonymous and allowed the
make the pie charts
through email, family survey responses to be kept
and record all of the
members, and friends confidential.
data.

● After the survey was sent

● The survey consisted out and the responses
of 20 questions that were obtained, the data
were required to be was split into two
answered by the different spreadsheets
based on the gender of
participants.
participants.

Aarujan
Anas
Results: (Gender Pie Chart Explanation)
● 50% of participants identified as female

● 43.8% of participants identified as Male

● 6.2% of participants identified as he/they

● Visible diversity of gender pronouns in survey

Anas
Anas
Results: (Netflix use pie chart explanation)
● Wide range of use in participants

● 31.3% of participants use Netflix about once a week

● 25% of participants use Netflix about 2-6 times a week

● 18.8% of participants do not use netflix

● 12.5% of participants use Netflix everyday

● 6.3% of participants use Netflix about once a month

● 6.3% of participants use Netflix less than once a month

Anas
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Results: (Netflix restriction user opinions)
● 56.3% of participants are against the new password sharing restrictions

● 18.8% of participants are unsure about their stand on the new password sharing
restrictions

● 18.8% of participants are in the middle about their stand on the new password sharing
restrictions

● 6.3% of participants are for the new password sharing restrictions

Anas
Results:
The results in our surveys varied, but the main gist of the information is the following:

● The gender gap between the people surveyed is virtually nonexistent

● The majority of people surveyed use Netflix weekly, with few people using the website
daily

● The majority of people surveyed believe that Netflix should not restrict the use of password
sharing, as we had hypothesized

Anas
discussion:

Does the data we’ve looked at support or

contradict our hypothesis?

JohnCarlo
discussion:

Can we identify some conclusions from these pie

charts? Is there anything that surprises you from
the data?

JohnCarlo
discussion:

How can this data be

considered important?

JohnCarlo
discussion:

What are some limitations that

you see with this data?

JohnCarlo
Conclusions:
● From the results, we can see that most people are against the new password sharing
restrictions

● Our hypothesis claiming that the password sharing restrictions do not benefit the users has
been statistically proven to be true from our survey data.

● If we are able to further study this topic we could find participants from different
demographics

● To gain a better understanding we would of also had more open ended questions in our
survey

● To prevent response bias, we should not have made the survey anonymous

Aarujan