The MFJS Reporter — Winter 2020 T-R

Before 2007, people had to wait for DVDs to come in the mail or go to a video store to buy or rent new movies or would have to wait and sit through ad after ad to watch the weekly episode of Gray’s Anatomy. That is until Netflix introduced the world to online, subscription-based, ad free, unlimited, television streaming in 2007, and it flipped the media industry on its head.

As a matter of fact, subscription-based media streaming outlets have taken the industry by storm. According to multiple experts and studies that examine the impact of the rise of streaming, these services already have had a profound effect on Americans, especially young American adults.