Why Does Netflix Rock This Much?

• Netflix members say they rent twice as many movies per month than they did prior to joining the service.
• If Netflix members, instead of receiving movies by mail, drove two miles each way to a rental store, they would consume 250,000 gallons of gasoline per day and release 750,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
• On a busy day Netflix ships about 5,000,000 gigabytes of data on DVDs, this is approximately 70% of the entire daily capacity of the Internet in the U.S. and Canada (7,000,000 gigabytes per day).
• Netflix ships 17 tons of DVDs per day or 6000 tons per year.
• If you stacked every DVD we ship in a single pile, the stack would grow by 1600 feet each day and be taller than Mt. Everest within a month.
• New Netflix members say they are immediately more satisfied with their home-entertainment experience than they were prior to joining Netflix. Their high level of satisfaction tends to increase the longer they remain with Netflix.
• Netflix members and visitors watch more than 22,000 movie trailers per day on the Netflix website.
• Nine out of 10 Netflix members say they are so satisfied with Netflix that they recommend service to family and friends.

(source: netflix.com)