{"id":308959,"date":"2019-06-06T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=308959"},"modified":"2019-06-06T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:20:28","slug":"netflix-testing-instagram-like-discovery-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/308959-netflix-testing-instagram-like-discovery-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix testing Instagram-like discovery feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has begun testing a new discovery feed which displays trailers, photos, and other media in a manner similar to Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/digital\/news\/netflix-extras-feed-1203233785\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The feed is named Extras and is being rolled out to the Netflix mobile app for a small portion of Netflix&#8217;s audience, the company confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are testing a feed of video extras in our mobile app to help fans connect more deeply with the titles they love and discover new ones to watch,&#8221; Netflix told Variety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These tests typically vary in length of time and by region, and may not become permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Extras allows users to share trailers and show alerts through third-party applications, as well as prompting users to share when they add shows to their list.<\/p>\n<p>Users can access the Extras feed through a dedicated button at the bottom of the mobile app. Netflix did not state when this feature would roll out to the rest of its users.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/308685-magic-the-gathering-series-for-netflix.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Magic: The Gathering series for Netflix<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has begun testing a new discovery feed which displays trailers, photos, and other media in a manner similar to Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":236520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[59379,33314,2054],"class_list":["post-308959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-discovery-feed","tag-mobile-app","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}