1. What are three challenges that Netflix faces?

In the Netflix online television comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black, the lead character is Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a recently engaged blond New Yorker sent to a federal prison for a crime committed years before. Critically acclaimed, and widely followed, Orange Is the New Black follows in the footsteps of Netflix’s earlier successful online TV series House of Cards, a political insider’s tale of Washington politics. House of Cards was the first-ever online television series to win an Emmy award (for best director). Orange won three Emmy creative awards in 2014. In 2014, Netflix racked up 31 nominations. Besides returning award-winning series from previous years, first-year dramas like Stranger Things and The Crown earned 32 nominations alone.
Netflix is quickly becoming the non-cable alternative to cable TV. By producing its own content, Netflix is able to differentiate itself from cable TV shows and attract new subscribers looking for new shows, not retreads from the cable networks. However, original productions are much more expensive to produce than licensing existing content. And there are plenty of other streaming services this year with very large budgets, among them Amazon and Hulu.