Vox

AUGUST 23, 2023

Netflix founder Reed Hastings holds up a few dozen DVDs headed to eager households in 2002, when the company had 500,000 subscribers. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Netflix is finally completing its pivot away from shipping DVDs — and it’s not asking for its discs back either. But now is your chance to own a piece of it.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 24, 2024

During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters was asked how the streamer would take on Prime Video and if it had considered copying Amazon by making ads the default option, which will begin on January 29. Read Entire Article

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Vox

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., If so, you can head over to Netflix, which started streaming the 2021 movie this week. It’s not unheard of to have the same movie playing on multiple services: You can also, for instance, watch Wolf of Wall Street on both Netflix and Paramount+. That’s so 2021.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 18, 2019

In a 2013 article in GQ, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos laid out the then-nascent streaming company’s challenge: “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In an email to Prime subscribers on Tuesday, Amazon said the addition of limited advertisements during Prime Video movies and TV shows will allow the company “to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time.” Amazon first announced the change was coming on Sept.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Alex Birsan, a Romanian threat researcher, recently made over $130,000 by virtuously breaking into IT systems at dozens of major tech companies. Read more.

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TechSpot

JULY 13, 2022

Microsoft and Netflix have announced that advertisements for Netflix's upcoming cheaper ad-supported tier will all come through Microsoft's advertising platform. The companies' statements end a string of rumors surrounding Netflix's ad plans.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

Netflix revealed that its initial efforts in gaming will be focused on mobile games and that the games will be included with users’ Netflix subscriptions, the company announced as part of its second-quarter earnings report on Tuesday. There’s also no word on how games will be delivered to Netflix subscribers.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

Netflix’s struggle to boost its subscriber count took a dire turn in the first quarter of 2022. The company reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers globally compared to Q4, and it’s forecasting even bigger losses to come. Netflix estimates it could lose up to 2 million subscribers in the second quarter. So what comes next?

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX. Netflix has surpassed another major milestone: 203.6 The achievement comes after Netflix saw spectacular growth in the first half of 2020. Netflix added a total of 8.5 Netflix “achieved $25 billion in annual revenue,” according to the earnings report. million subscribers around the world.

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Vox

JUNE 1, 2022

. | Courtesy of Netflix. Netflix is losing subscribers. Does that mean Netflix has a problem or that streaming has a problem? Hollywood spent years ignoring Netflix. And more recently, Hollywood has contorted itself trying to be Netflix. You can see the outlines of what that looks like at Netflix itself.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

Netflix has dipped a toe in gaming on occasion, with perhaps the hugely-successful “choose your own adventure”-style film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as the most prominent example. But the streaming giant may be expanding further into gaming with a new bundle for Netflix subscribers, according to several reports over the past few days.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2022

Netflix is raising prices across all of its plans in the US today. The company’s standard plan will rise to $15.50 For existing subscribers, the changes will be rolled out “gradually,” with Netflix promising to email members 30 days before the price hike goes into effect. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

Apple lawsuit show that employees at Apple were considering giving Netflix special treatment to convince the streaming service to not abandon in-app purchases. The emails, spotted by 9to5Mac , start with an explanation of a test Netflix wanted to run to study the impact of disabling in-app purchases on iOS.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings in February 2022. Netflix doesn’t want to sell itself to Microsoft. And did we mention that Netflix really, really wants to be in games? And did we mention that Netflix really, really wants to be in games? Wolter Peeters/Fairfax Media via Getty Images.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

Netflix has for years ignored the fact that many of us are mooching off our friends’ and families’ accounts. But the streaming king now appears to be reconsidering its look-the-other-way policy, a shift that comes as Netflix’s growth slows and its annual production budget for churning out new hits creeps ever higher.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Netflix has more than 200 million subscribers around the world, and now the company is looking at ways to curb password sharing for both business and security reasons. A Netflix spokesperson told The Verge , “This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so.”

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

As Netflix’s streaming rivals like Prime Video and HBO Max’s WarnerMedia focus on consolidation and studio acquisitions, Netflix is instead prioritizing its own service and investment in games over snapping up any available studio IP. Netflix spelled out its streaming strategy in its second quarter letter to its shareholders.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

Image: Netflix. The third “volume” of Netflix’s science fiction anthology series Love, Death, and Robots will debut on May 20th. The company announced the release on Monday with a short video — though don’t be fooled by the footage of The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit at the beginning.

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Vox

JUNE 21, 2023

HBO Netflix set out to become HBO. But if you don’t subscribe to Max, you may still be in luck: In the not-too-distant future, Insecure , along with other shows that ran on HBO, will probably start streaming on Netflix, HBO’s longtime rival, too. Reps from WBD, HBO, and Netflix declined to comment. Goodbye, streaming wars?

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

An image from the Netflix series Bridgerton. Image: Netflix. Netflix is seeing a slowdown in new subscriptions as the company puts out fewer shows following a year of delayed productions. The company now has 208 million paid subscribers across the globe, up from 204 million last quarter. Image: Netflix.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Netflix will not distribute a number of state-run channels in Russia as mandated by a new law, the company says, following reports that it could soon be forced to carry the networks. However, a Netflix spokesperson told The Verge that it does not plan to carry the channels. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechSpot

JULY 20, 2022

When Netflix reported Q1 results back in April, the company said it expected to lose as many as two million additional subscribers in the second quarter. In actuality, Netflix shed just half that at 970,000 subscribers during the three-month period ending June 30.

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TechSpot

JULY 15, 2021

We heard back in May that Netflix was looking for a new executive to oversee its expansion into the lucrative video game businesses. The company said at the time that it was "excited to do more with interactive entertainment." Now, Bloomberg reports that Netflix has found its exec.

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Vox

JANUARY 19, 2023

Reed Hastings has been in charge of Netflix since he co-founded the company, which originally shipped DVDs by mail, in 1997. Now Netflix has more than 230 million customers around the world, dominates the streaming video industry it basically invented, and Hastings is no longer going to run his company day to day.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

(Amazon Image) Amazon is ready to interrupt Prime Video programming to bring commercial breaks to its streaming shows and movies, the company announced Friday. “We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers,” the company said in a blog post about its plans, which will start early next year.

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The Verge

MAY 1, 2021

A former Netflix executive was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from vendors doing business with the company, according to the US Department of Justice. Michael Kail, who was Netflix’s vice president of information technology operations from 2011 to 2014, was found guilty by a jury of money laundering, and wire and mail fraud.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Does your Netflix home screen — you know, the one with your user profiles — now have a “Shuffle Play” button? The company tells us it’s actually been running this test since July. Interesting new feature @netflix. The company tells us it’s only available so far on “TV devices.” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Image: Netflix. Netflix’s immensely popular Squid Game is getting an edit after phone numbers shown in the series dialed real numbers, leading to what the company described as “unfortunate” prank dials. That’s great for the show’s creators and certainly a win for Netflix.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Netflix subscribers in three Latin American countries can now read the details on the company's new restrictions to prevent password sharing. The new conditions appear on the Netflix help center's page on sharing accounts only when the country selector is set to Chile, Costa Rica, or Peru. The company hasn't.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The emergence of a vast number of streaming services in recent years seems to be catching up to the companies who’ve launched platforms intended to take on industry titans like Netflix and Disney. Read more.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

Ads could be coming to Netflix in the next few years. After years of rejecting calls for an ad-supported streaming tier, Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings said on Tuesday’s earnings call that the company is “quite open to offering even lower prices with advertising, as a consumer choice.”.

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Vox

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Netflix’s Stranger Things. Courtesy of Netflix. Netflix’s new cheaper subscription has ads, but it doesn’t have all of its shows and movies. What does an ad look like on Netflix? For years, that was a trick question, because Netflix never had ads. And its ads will look.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 7, 2022

Netflix is being phased out of Russia, following President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine twelve days ago, according to a spokesperson for the streaming video giant. And Netflix is just the latest high-profile company to announce it will pull out of the country altogether as Russian soldiers continue to… Read more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings speaks at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2016. GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Reed Hastings is taking a page from Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates’ playbook in his decision to step down as CEO of Netflix. RELATED: Co-CEOs? Ted & Greg are now co-CEOs.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Iñaki Godoy will play Luffy in Netflix’s One Piece live action show. Image: Netflix. Netflix has revealed five key cast members for its upcoming show based on the hugely popular manga and anime franchise One Piece. onepiece pic.twitter.com/s3UvjkShbL — Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) November 9, 2021. Mackenyu as Zoro.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Netflix is finally mixing games into its gargantuan library of content. It’s a new way for Netflix to keep subscribers hooked on its service — and gaming could just be its winning play for continued streaming dominance. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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