{"id":395725,"date":"2022-12-01T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=395725"},"modified":"2022-12-01T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:32:15","slug":"netflix-will-use-thousands-of-subscribers-to-test-screen-its-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/netflix-will-use-thousands-of-subscribers-to-test-screen-its-content","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Will Use Thousands of Subscribers to Test Screen Its Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost since the dawn of film, there have been test audiences, viewers who watch movies before they air and give feedback on what does and doesn&#8217;t work. Streaming giant Netflix got into the practice last year with the Preview Club program, which allows a select group of subscribers to stream content early and respond to surveys on what does or doesn&#8217;t work about the project. And now, the streamer plans to give the program a major expansion. Per The Wall Street Journal , Netflix plans to expand the Preview Club, which currently has roughly 2,000 subscribers in the United States, to include over 10,000 users globally. This expansion will reportedly occur early next year. According to the story, Netflix test audiences have already resulted in alterations to films like Adam McKay&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8221; and shows like &#8220; The Sandman .&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8221; was dinged by subscribers who previewed the film for being &#8220;too serious,&#8221; leading to McKay making<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost since the dawn of film, there have been test audiences, viewers who watch movies before they air and give feedback on what does and doesn&#8217;t work. Streaming giant Netflix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}