If you have ever had to explain an episode of your favorite series on Netflix or a movie, and you could not find a clip online, then this streamer just came up with the solution.
It unveiled a new clipping feature called "Moments" in its iOS app on Monday. A user can save favorite moments and then quickly replay those or share them with their social networks by clicking on the scene once. One can then click on that post from their own feed, and it opens into their Netflix app.
You can use the bottom of the page to save a scene if you want to watch where you left off later: "Moments" puts the scene in your tab under "My Netflix" on your homepage. Then the next time you restart the show, it will begin playing with the scene you saved playing right away.
Clip sharing is perhaps one of the best ways for fans to take memorable moments of favorite shows, but Netflix strictly limits taking screenshots or even recording while streaming. There are countless sketchy apps and software you can use in lieu; however, not everyone is willing to take the risks. This feature also stands as much better than recording the TV screen with your phone, which usually has the grainy, poor quality video.
Many Netflix title clips go viral online and bring more subscribers to the service. This carriage scene from "Bridgerton," for example. Probably, the company is ready for a modest growth of engagement and viewership owing to the release of Moments.
The feature is available from next month for Android.
Thus, a feature like that is going to resonate whenever the streaming giant probably seems to be taking other bold routes in trying to achieve growth in this hyper competitive market. In this period, it recorded a high of 5.1 million subscribers for Q3 2024 while recording a total of 282 million subscribers. However, though the increase was as high as 8 million new subscribers in Q2, the plateau the firm is experiencing about slight trends is starting to sound like that.
The company recently hiked its price for subscribers for the third time in less than a year.
Separately, Netflix's gaming arm closed its AAA video game studio earlier this month, which may mean its goal to develop a high-budget games is dead or on hold.