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Netflix most-watched led by South Korea’s ‘Hellbound’ & Colombian telenovela
South Korean drama Hellbound and a Colombian telenovela were the most-watched shows on Netflix last…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why Netflix chose its new viewing metric
Netflix recently revealed a swathe of new data reflecting its most-watched shows using a new…
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News round-up: Netflix boards ‘Family Feud SA’ S2; ‘Gomorrah’ heads to Hollywood Suite; Discovery+ orders Depp vs Heard doc
Netflix boards ‘Family Feud SA’ S2 Netflix has boarded the second season of Family Feud…
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Netflix unveils most-watched shows, led by Korean drama trio & ‘Narcos: Mexico’
Netflix’s newly launched rankings site has revealed that South Korean dramas, Narcos: Mexico and psychological…
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Disney+ to overtake Netflix as world’s biggest streamer by 2027, report predicts
A new report has boldly predicted that Disney+ will surpass Netflix for subscribers by 2027….
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TBI Weekly: Why US SVOD saturation matters for global production
US viewers have been gobbling up content at unprecedented rates over the past few years,…
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Netflix ramps up Japanese content expansion with large anime & live-action slate
Netflix is continuing to ramp up its investment in Japan, unveiling a large slate of…
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Sweden stacks SVODs with 350,000 new subscriptions in 12 months
The Swedish streaming market has added 350,000 subscribers over the past 12 months, with Netflix,…
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News round-up: ‘Squid Game’ creator preps S2; OSN opens Eccho’s ‘Chrysalis’; ZEE5 preps desi noir anthology
Squid Game creator preps S2 Squid Game director and writer Hwang Dong-hyuk has said a…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How Disney+ fits into South Africa’s SVOD boom
South Africa’s SVOD landscape has seen rapid growth over recent years with global players joining…
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Netflix unveils first games, with ‘Stranger Things’ themed offering
Netflix has unveiled the first offerings from its new games division, themed around some of…
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Netflix appoints Sphère Média’s Tara Woodbury as first Canadian content exec
Netflix has hired Tara Woodbury from Toronto’s Sphère Média as its first Canadian content exec….
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring emotion in family’s SVOD subscriptions
Streamers are competing on all programming fronts to attract and retain subscribers, but families remain…
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Netflix partners with Nippon TV for Japanese content expansion
Netflix is expanding its offering of Japanese content by partnering with Nippon TV to bring…
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TBI Weekly: What’s next for Africa’s blooming drama business?
From the impact of streamers such as Amazon, Showmax and Netflix, to the acceptance of…
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Netflix adds Spanish comedy, dating & films as originals slate expands
Netflix has expanded its Spanish originals slate, with orders for new scripted and unscripted series,…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Breaking down US OTT live-streaming & on-demand trends
The way in which audiences consume content has changed dramatically over the last few years,…
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Netflix staff hold protest over ‘transphobic’ Dave Chapelle special
Around 100 people have held a protest outside Netflix’s LA headquarters as the backlash mounts…
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‘Squid Game’ powers Netflix in Q3, taking subs to more than 213 million
The phenomenal success of Korean thriller series Squid Game helped Netflix to beat forecasts for…
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Netflix orders ‘To All The Boys’ spin-off series
Netflix has picked up XO, Kitty, a new young adult series spinning out of the…
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Netflix fires employee over Dave Chapelle data leak
Netflix has fired an employee that was planning a mass walkout, escalating internal tensions at…
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Netflix & UNESCO launch African short film competition
Netflix has partnered with UNESCO to launch a short film competition based around the reimagining…
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Netflix partners with David Fincher for cinema docuseries ‘Voir’
Netflix has teamed up with director David Fincher once again for Voir, a new docuseries…
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Netflix enters ‘Swap Shop’ with Hit+Run
Netflix has acquired a new US-based reality format, Swap Shop, from New York factual outfit…
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Japan’s TBS & Netflix partner for multi-series deal
Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) has partnered with Netflix to launch two of its drama…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Where next for Lat Am as OTT overtakes pay-TV?
Adam Thomas and Sarah Henschel, analysts at TBI sister research group Omdia, reflect on the…
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Drama round up: Netflix orders Brazilian thriller; ViacomCBS acquires NBCU’s ‘FBI’; Starzplay renews ‘BMF’
Netflix orders Brazilian thriller Netflix has commissioned Olhar Indiscreto, an original Brazilian psychological thriller set…
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Netflix makes first gaming acquisition with deal for Night School Studio
Netflix has acquired its first video game studio as it continues to make advances into…
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Netflix orders ‘Tiger King 2’ in new true crime slate
Netflix has commissioned a sequel to the global factual hit Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem &…
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Scripted round-up: US remake for Belgium’s ‘Team Chocolate’; Showtime adapts Swedish book for TV; Netflix reveals ‘All The Light We Cannot See’
LA-based STXtelevision has teamed with Newen’s Reel One Entertainment to develop and produce an English-language…