Netflix

Netflix is a global streaming service that offers a wide range of TV shows, movies, documentaries, and original content to its subscribers for a monthly fee. Founded in 1997, the company has grown to become a major player in the entertainment industry, with over 200 million subscribers in more than 190 countries. The company is led by co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters and operates through several divisions, including content acquisition, production, and distribution. Netflix's competitors include other streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Hulu.

Recent Articles about Netflix

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Inside Reed Hastings' Life After Netflix

By Abram Brown · Jan 27, 2024 6:00am PST

Welcome to your Weekend!Let me introduce—well, reintroduce—myself. I’m Abram Brown, the new editor of Weekend, the magazine you’ve got in front of you. This issue marks my return to The Information after earlier tenures as a Weekend staff editor and senior reporter. In coming weekends, you’ll notice some changes to Weekend, but its raison d’être... Welcome to your Weekend!Let me introduce—well, reintroduce—myself. I’m Abram Brown, the new...

Reed Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix. Photo by Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

How Netflix Missed Out on Succession Drama

By Martin Peers · Jan 26, 2024 3:00pm PST · 2 comments

When it comes to drama, Netflix has turned out to be a disappointment, at least for reporters. In the annals of tech CEO successions, Reed Hastings’ handoff of the reins to the duo of Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters seems to have gone about as smoothly as possible. In the year since Hastings kicked himself upstairs, Netflix stock has soared 67%.... When it comes to drama, Netflix has turned out to be a disappointment, at least for reporters. In...

Fintech Struggles, Netflix Rises and ‘Big’ is Winning

By Jessica E. Lessin · Jan 26, 2024 12:46pm PST

It's been a bleak week. From the blood bath in the news industry to further job cuts throughout tech, 2024 is off to a brutal start. Unless you're Netflix. Plus, why we're so into football, pop culture and peptides at the moment. That and more on this week's More or Less. Apple Spotify It's been a bleak week. From the blood bath in the news industry to further job cuts...

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The Power and The Powder: Inside Reed Hastings’ Life After Netflix

By Julia Black · Jan 26, 2024 9:00am PST · 5 comments

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The Power and The Powder: Inside Reed Hastings’ Life After Netflix

By Julia Black · Jan 26, 2024 9:00am PST · 5 comments

Up nearly 9,000 feet in the Utah sky, the yurt-shaped lodge atop Powder Mountain offered an expansive vista when I arrived in mid-January, showing dozens of icy peaks stretching across four states. A blizzard had just dumped several feet of snow across the 10,000-acre luxury ski resort, worsening travel on the mountain’s infamously steep... Up nearly 9,000 feet in the Utah sky, the yurt-shaped lodge atop Powder Mountain offered an...

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Why Netflix’s Raw Deal Will Strengthen Its Streaming Lead

By Martin Peers · Jan 23, 2024 5:00pm PST · 2 comments

Netflix has put media companies in a chokehold. The streaming giant’s $5 billion deal to assume the rights to World Wrestling Entertainment’s Raw from NBCUniversal’s USA network—and other WWE programming overseas—demonstrates its growing competitive advantage over older TV companies. USA has aired Raw since 1993—with a five-year break in the... Netflix has put media companies in a chokehold. The streaming giant’s $5 billion deal to assume...

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What Netflix’s Stock Recovery—and Ackman’s Mistake—Tells Us

By Martin Peers · Jan 12, 2024 3:00pm PST

If you want to get under Bill Ackman’s skin right now—without mentioning Harvard University or Business Insider—ask him about his Netflix bet of 2022. The hedge fund manager’s decision in late January of that year to jump into Netflix’s stock, just as it was getting pummeled by investors unhappy with its growth slowdown, would prove to be a... If you want to get under Bill Ackman’s skin right now—without mentioning Harvard University or...

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What X and Netflix Have in Common

By Martin Peers · Oct 30, 2023 5:00pm PDT

Here’s a question: Is the entertainment value provided by X, formerly known as Twitter, equal to what Netflix offers? Elon Musk wants to charge people roughly the same for an ad-free version of X that they pay for Netflix’s cheapest ad-free tier, around $16 a month. It’s part of his effort to supplement X’s much-diminished ad revenue with... Here’s a question: Is the entertainment value provided by X, formerly known as Twitter, equal to...

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Netflix Reports Healthy Q3 While Raising Premium Tier Price

By Martin Peers · Oct 18, 2023 5:00pm PDT

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Netflix Reports Healthy Q3 While Raising Premium Tier Price

By Martin Peers · Oct 18, 2023 5:00pm PDT

Let’s hope the boffins who track inflation are watching video streaming (and not for the entertainment value!). Netflix today raised the price on its premium tier by $3 a month to $22.99, a notably bigger increase than the last time it jacked up prices. Aggressive price increases are becoming standard in streaming, at least among the bigger... Let’s hope the boffins who track inflation are watching video streaming (and not for the...

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Netflix Earnings Next Week Should Be OK But Not Great

By Martin Peers · Oct 13, 2023 3:00pm PDT

Earnings season is back. Banks, always the early birds, began reporting Friday and next week Netflix kicks off tech earnings season with its third quarter report on Wednesday. Big tech—Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and the rest—don’t start reporting until the week after. But Netflix’s report will give us plenty to chew over. It will give... Earnings season is back. Banks, always the early birds, began reporting Friday and next week...

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Netflix’s Ad Exec Shakeup Was Part of Effort to Speed Growth

By Sahil Patel · Oct 10, 2023 9:30am PDT

Turning Netflix into an advertising goliath is proving tougher than the video-streaming giant expected. Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters decided to replace ad sales chief Jeremi Gorman with Amy Reinhard, a longtime Netflix executive, in hopes of accelerating the ad business’ growth, according to people with knowledge of the matter. One sign of... Turning Netflix into an advertising goliath is proving tougher than the video-streaming giant...