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This infographic was submitted to us by Meoble, who, like the rest of you all, have been very patient with us over the last several weeks of holiday insanity!

(To begin, I’d like to thank everyone who reads and submits for entrusting your valuable time to us. We’re working to get up to speed. We publish and review infographics that we feel benefit the creators and the readers in terms of feedback, and while not everything makes it onto the site, a nudge may help!)

This particular infographic focuses on the recent uproar over Netflix, and its subsequent decline. It really benefits from the inclusion of stock price graphs–what better way to track a company’s progress or regression? It’s stunning how much share prices have plummeted in the last half of 2011. Will they recover? It remains to be seen.

The color palette here is appropriate, as it correlates to Netflix’s own red, white, black and gray scheme. However, the infographic gets a bit gray-heavy, to the point of being distracting. Gray text on varying shades of gray boxes is a lot of gray to look at–my eye jumps to the spots of black and white, which aren’t necessarily the most important pieces of text or illustration. It would help if more red or other techniques for contrast were incorporated in the lower portion of the IG.

There are also spots where the inclusion of text wasn’t necessary. Whenever possible, text should be minimized or removed from infographics. The data viz and illustration should tell the story.

For example, the box about losing 800,000 customers doesn’t need the accompanying sentence–except that the sentence says 805,000 and the illustration says 800,000. The less text there is, the more easily and quickly the viewer can process the information.

The portion about stocks plummeting 27% after customer loss also stands perfectly well on its own, without accompanying text. If the text is just repeating what the data viz already says, it can be excluded, to the benefit of the infographic.

Overall I’d give this infographic a B. When the text is cut down and the colors livened up, it’ll be a great source of fast info about the fall of Netflix.

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The people at Ultimate Coupons submitted this “infographic.”

The vibe of this graphic is pretty funny. I really enjoyed going through the “how do you prefer to watch movies” quiz, and it’s cute that it seems to be on the back of the pictured couple’s couch. (Oops, “the alter of Apple” should be “the altar of Apple.” “The alter of Apple” would probably be Microsoft.)

Unfortunately, this isn’t really an infographic. The quiz is fun, and it does provide some information about different services in a sort of roundabout way, but the bottom half of this graphic is all text. There’s no visualization at all. It would’ve been very effective to make pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, etc. of each of the variables they looked at here. “Number of DVD Titles Compared,” “Number of Streaming Titles Compared,” “Stream Speed Compared,” etc. would have made the presentation of this data much more accessible. The descriptions of each service need to be pared down, too. IGs aren’t about reading.

Another pretty big problem with this graphic (pun fully intended) is its width. An infographic that is wider than about 1,000 pixels makes the viewer have to scroll horizontally, and this is more than twice that width. That’s an inconvenience–it’s impossible to see all the info in even one category at once that way. (It’s especially detrimental to the quiz.)

This is a great concept for an infographic, but it needs a good amount of tweaking to bump it from graphic to infographic. I’ll have to give it a D-.

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This infographic gives an overview of Netflix and Redbox, who are battling to win over consumers who want to rent movies. Renting movies is the cheapest way to view them, as it costs much more to go to a movie theater or buy the DVD or Blu-ray disc. It notes that 90% of homes in the U.S. have a DVD or Blu-ray player, so it makes sense why so many people are choosing to use rental services like Netflix and Redbox. Most people who use Netflix get their discs via the mail, and can have one or more discs at a time, depending on their membership. Netflix members also stream some of the movies and T.V. shows that are available online. Redbox is a bit different in that people use their kiosks to get discs, and the infographic reports them having over 24,000 in the U.S.