If binge-watching Netflix shows all day long sounds like your dream job, then look no further than this job posting for the streaming company that seeks someone an “editorial analyst” to “watch, research, rate, tag, annotate and write analysis for movie and TV content” for their Netflix Originals catalogue.
March 29, 2018 3:21 PM EDT I f binge-watching Netflix shows all day long sounds like your dream job, then look no further than this job posting for the streaming company that seeks someone an. Netflix employs people called “Taggers” to watch upcoming content and help flag it into proper categories, i.e. “Indie Movies with a Strong Female Lead,” or “Critically Acclaimed TV Dramas.” This is done mostly by choosing words from a pool of 1,000 to best describe the program.
In other words, Netflix needs someone to watch hours and hours of TV and movies for them to help categorize the content into genres, an enviable career for anybody who’s fallen into the deep hole of Netflix’s endless offerings in their free time.
According to the qualifications requirement for the job, the ideal candidate will be “passionate about movies and TV with a deep knowledge of the entertainment industry” and should be able to live and work in Los Angeles. Read more about this dream position, here.
LOS GATOS, Calif. Now is your chance to binge-watch, guilt-free. Netflix is looking to hire people to view their shows and movies, then rate them. Here is what we currently know about the company that made 'cord-cutting' and 'binge watching' commonplace digital industry terms. I hope you find this data helpful. Netflix Headquarters: Los Gatos, Ca; Netflix Founders: Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph; Netflix CEO: Reed Hastings; Number of Netflix Employees: 3,500 employees. .quits current job immediately and applies. This individual will be a professional binge-watcher, specifically of Netflix's original programming. C'mon Andy Sachs of binge-watching!
Do you binge watch Netflix shows?
Wanna get paid to watch TV shows and movies?
Now you can!
Netflix is hiring people for their Editorial Analyst position to watch and review their many hundreds of thousands of shows and movies.
Basically, they want you to binge watch stuff and they’ll pay you to watch movies and shows.
Get paid to watch TV shows and movies!
Why?
Well, every year, hundreds of thousands of new titles are added to Netflix’s huge content library. All of these titles need to be reviewed, tagged and categorized.
So from time to time, they hire a whole bunch of people to basically binge watch shows so they can review, rate, tag and categorize them.
They have hired people known as Netflix taggers in the past to do similar work.
To qualify, you have to know a little about the entertainment industry. You have to be able to summarize the shows and movies you watch, then rate and tag them.
There are of course a few qualification criteria as well.
According to the company, the qualifications are:
As a Netflix Editorial Analyst, you will be responsible for a few things.
Your responsibilities include:
Watching, researching, rating, annotate and writing analyses for movie and TV content.
Reviewing content metadata for quality and accuracy.
Basically, you are going to get paid to review movies, shows, and features and categorize them according to their genres.
Needless to say, you must be deadline oriented and complete all the projects on time and efficiently.
Unfortunately, there is not much info on that.
Their official job page only describes the job, qualifications and your responsibilities. Beyond that, there is no mention of the pay.
If this changes, I’ll update this post.
Think you got what it takes to binge watch Netflix all day?
You can apply by visiting https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/865745.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, enter your information and hit “SUBMIT APPLICATION.”
Or if you like, you can upload your resume by clicking the “upload your resume (.pdf, .doc)” tab.
By the way, if you are interested in side hustles like this, check out 20 Ways to Get Paid to Watch Videos.
So, what do you think?
Would you wanna binge watch TV to make money?
I would love to hear especially from those of you that have done Netflix tagging before. How was your experience? How was the pay and would you do it again?