{"id":659989,"date":"2013-05-23T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=229884"},"modified":"2013-05-23T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T22:36:18","slug":"adios-dora-netflix-is-starting-to-take-viacom-shows-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659989","title":{"rendered":"Adios, Dora: Netflix is starting to take Viacom shows offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Don\u2019t ask Netflix subscribers: The video service removed <em>Spongebob Squarepants<\/em>, <em>Dora the Explorer<\/em>, <em>Go Diego Go, Blue&#8217;s Clues\u00a0<\/em> and other animated Nickeolodeon fare from its streaming library this week as its licensing agreement with Viacom is expiring. Also gone are shows like <em>iCarly<\/em>, <em>Teen Mom<\/em>, <em>Jersey Shore<\/em> and the <em>Sarah Silverman Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/digital\/news\/viacom-and-netflix-to-scale-down-svod-deal-1200407086\/\">had announced in April<\/a> that it wasn\u2019t going to renew its broad licensing deal with Viacom. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said at the time that his company was in talks with Viacom to possibly strike separate deals for specific shows. A Netflix spokesperson told us Thursday that the company doesn\u2019t have any news to share on that front.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s previous deal with Viacom <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2011\/05\/more-mtv-networks-content.html\">included titles from<\/a> Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, VH1, Logo and Spike. <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/2013\/04\/24\/netflix-long-term-view-reed-hastings\/\">In a position paper on the future of his company<\/a>, Hastings said in April that Netflix was using a whole lot of data to evaluate these kinds of deals before deciding to renew them:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"quote-%e2%80%9cwe-might-pa\">\n<p>\u201cWe might pay, for example, $200,000 for a 4 year exclusive subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) license for a given title. At the time of renewal, we evaluate how much the title has been viewed as well as member rating feedback to determine how much we are willing to pay. How many similar titles we have is also a consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Netflix doesn\u2019t share any of its ratings with the outside world, but the company has made it clear in the past that kids are a very important audience, which even <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/08\/08\/just-for-kids-xbox-personalization\/\">deserved a dedicated UI<\/a> to further encourage their viewing. With that in mind, it\u2019s possible that there may be hope for <em>Dora<\/em> or any of the other more popular kids shows to return to the service sooner or later. Fans of <em>Teen Mom<\/em> on the other hand may have to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=14960843&#038;%23038;post=649015&#038;%23038;subd=gigaom2&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=418442\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=418442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:<\/strong><br \/>Subscriber content. <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/?utm_source=media&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=649015+no-more-dora-spongebob-on-netflix&#038;utm_content=jroettgers\">Sign up for a free trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/gigaom.feedsportal.com\/c\/34996\/f\/646446\/s\/2c543cc5\/mf.gif' border='0'\/><\/p>\n<div class='mf-viral'>\n<table border='0'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='middle'><a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/twitter\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F05%2F23%2Fno-more-dora-spongebob-on-netflix%2F&#038;t=Adios%2C+Dora%3A+Netflix+is+starting+to+take+Viacom+shows+offline\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/twitter.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/facebook\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F05%2F23%2Fno-more-dora-spongebob-on-netflix%2F&#038;t=Adios%2C+Dora%3A+Netflix+is+starting+to+take+Viacom+shows+offline\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/facebook.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/linkedin\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F05%2F23%2Fno-more-dora-spongebob-on-netflix%2F&#038;t=Adios%2C+Dora%3A+Netflix+is+starting+to+take+Viacom+shows+offline\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/linkedin.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/gplus\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F05%2F23%2Fno-more-dora-spongebob-on-netflix%2F&#038;t=Adios%2C+Dora%3A+Netflix+is+starting+to+take+Viacom+shows+offline\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/googleplus.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/email\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F05%2F23%2Fno-more-dora-spongebob-on-netflix%2F&#038;t=Adios%2C+Dora%3A+Netflix+is+starting+to+take+Viacom+shows+offline\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/email.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign='middle'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=6cWuT57wpHc:cWskb6JoeuE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/6cWuT57wpHc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Don\u2019t ask Netflix subscribers: The video service removed Spongebob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Blue&#8217;s Clues\u00a0 and other animated Nickeolodeon fare from its streaming library this week as its licensing agreement with Viacom is expiring. Also gone are shows like iCarly, Teen Mom, Jersey Shore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}