Last month while traveling to San Jose, I had the opportunity to visit Netflix headquarters for a tour and update on all things Netflix. As a member of the Netflix Stream Team, they invited any Stream Team bloggers who might be in the area while attending BlogHer. Netflix HQ, based in Los Gatos, has two beautiful buildings and a fun working environment, pretty close to what you’d expect from a Silicon Valley tech company.
Besides getting a pretty thorough tour of Netflix’ HQ buildings, a highlight of the trip was listening to and meeting Piper Kerman, author of the popular book, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
and the basis upon which the ever popular Netflix show, Orange is the New Black show is based upon. Piper Kerman remains as a consultant to the show to help better depict prison life in a woman’s jail.
Netflix HQ Presentation
Netflix is the most popular paid streaming service available with a wide variety of movies and show and priced at only $8/mo. Netflix is so versatile, it’s available on nearly any watchable device…TV’s, DVR’s, Tivo, Blu-ray players, tablets, phones, computers, they have all the basics covered.
Netflix continues to aggressively grow their selection through new partnerships with production companies as well as expanding their own Netflix-created shows. After the Netflix HQ tour, we had a number of executives talk to us about Netflix programming. I was impressed to see how they use the data of shows viewed from their subscribers to build their collection further based on interests. Netflix is interested in all members of the family and continuously seek programming deals to suit their audiences. They look at their streaming portfolio in different ways…
By Gender
By Age Group
By Key Genres
And by Family Movies & Shows that can be watched together.
Although I’d caution you on Grease, it has more adult conversation than you remember as a child!
Netflix HQ Tour
It took us quite a bit of time to tour both of Netflix’ HQ buildings, so I had a lot of video footage. I didn’t want you to miss anything, so I sped up the video to show you everything. As we walk though the building, notice the fun things around the office that makes Netflix a fun environment to work in.
What a great day. Enjoyed the Netflix tour? We also toured Tivo HQ the same day, keep posted for a video tour of Tivo next month!
* I am a member of the Netflix Stream Team and was provided with streaming service for my time. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Hello! I was wondering if I could talk to you because my school(in Mexico is taking a group of high school students to visit tech companies. We already have access to Google, HP and other companies, but I’m very interested on trying to have access for a tour guide or something on Netflix. Thank you