Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But Netflix also considered other sounds, including underwater bubbles and a goat bleat. And the latter was a real contender. “I ...

Netflix has 193 million subscribers, and every single one of them hears the exact same thing any time they watch an original program from the streaming site. It’s that signature “ta-dum” that plays ...

Oscar-winning sound designer Lon Bender also considered using underwater bubbles as the sound that introduces every stream; the end result is now referred to internally as "Ta Dum." By Seth ...