Netflix gained market share in December over broadcast and cable television. How "Squid Game" and NFL games helped tie a company record.

Netflix's new deal with Ms. Rachel, the kid content phenom, marks the latest major influencer agreement to come to streaming.

Netflix is raising prices in the US to $17.99 for its standard plan. The hike comes as the streamer crushed expectations for subscriber growth.

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Netflix will also try to stop password sharing. Subscribers can add extra members to their accounts for a fee that is less than a new subscription. Adding someone to a standard ad-free plan will increase to $8.99, while the charge for extra members on a plan with commercials will remain the same.

As revealed by Omdia ’s Senior Research Director María Rua Aguete at a Content Americas panel, it surpassed 1.9 billion monthly active users globally, with 145 million in the U.S. alone. In terms of video revenues, TikTok reached $63.3 billion globally – nearly doubling YouTube’s global ad revenues of $33.3 billion.

Nielsen's The Gauge report for December, a month bookended by the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, measured record usage for YouTube, Netflix and Prime Video, with overall viewing up 4 percent on the previous month.

In the software update in July 2024, Netflix canceled the download function on its Windows app, preventing users from saving their favorite Netflix videos for playback offline on Windows computers. Therefore,

Streaming giant Netflix have come late to the game in showing live sport but have already made a big impression. The NFL and WWE have delivered large viewership numbers.

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Netflix Q4 2024 earnings interview. I'm Spencer Wang, vice president of finance, IR, and corporate development. Joining me today are co-CEOs, Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters; and CFO, Spence Neumann. As a reminder, we will be making forward-looking statements, and actual results may vary.

Netflix added nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter to help propel its earnings beyond analysts’ projections, signaling that the video streaming service’s expansion into live programming is paying off.