How Netflix Acted Like a First Place Brand

And why your company should too

Barry W. Enderwick
Better Marketing
Published in
4 min readJul 18, 2018

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In the early days of Netflix, we were an underdog, to say the least. Our competition was every single place that rented DVDs — from gas stations all the way up to big video stores. But clearly our number one competitor was Blockbuster (followed by Hollywood Video, in a distant second).

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Brand/marketing executive, Kaizen (ex Netflix). I write on startups, strategy, business, culture & design. Also Sandwiches Of History on Insta/TikTok/YouTube