Netflix is constructing a brand new search expertise geared toward bettering the invention expertise, and it’s going to make use of AI to do it, the corporate’s CEO Greg Peters stated throughout its first-quarter outcomes convention name.
Peters stated Netflix is engaged on “interactive search that’s based mostly on generative applied sciences” to assist individuals discover completely different titles.
Answering an analyst’s query, Peters stated the corporate’s hottest titles that dominate in style dialog draw 1% of site visitors, and due to this pattern, bettering discovery and suggestion is essential to the corporate.
“There’s extra room to enhance the invention and suggestion expertise, and subsequently present extra worth for members, and subsequently discover the largest audiences for our titles,” he stated.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that Netflix has been testing OpenAI-powered search with choose clients in Australia and New Zealand.
The corporate, which additionally began testing a new home page design on its TV app that introduced a brand new solution to show present titles and descriptions, plans to roll it out extensively later this yr.
“This [Homepage redesign] is one thing that we hadn’t made huge structural adjustments to in over a decade. We imagine that this may considerably enhance Netflix’s discovery expertise. We’ve been sprucing and bettering that have based mostly on the enter we obtained from members who used it,” Peters famous.
The corporate stated first-quarter income rose 12.5% to $10.54 billion from a yr earlier.