Netflix

• Netflix is rolling out a TikTok-style feed and a homepage redesign to help you find your next watch
• Netflix’s CEO thinks YouTube is just a place to “kill time.” And yet it keeps tapping creators for deals.

  Netflix is obviously combing YouTube for budding talent. And some creators are willing to make deals with it. Like Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian host of live-filmed conservative humor podcast Kill Tony.

  
• Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson got 49 million Netflix views in 2024, but it was no CoComelon

  'Squid Game' and the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson led Netflix H2 viewership, but 'CoComelon' was the annual leader.

  
• The Paul x Tyson fight helped Netflix drive record account growth–just before it stops reporting subscriber counts

  Netflix expects live events like the Jake Paul x Mike Tyson boxing match to be "a small percentage of our total view hours and content expense," but still thinks they will "result in outsized value to both our members and our business," it said during its fourth-quarter earnings call this week.

  
• The Sidemen say they’ve hit “the ceiling” of what they can do on YouTube. So they’re going to Netflix.
• As YouTube dominates streaming, Netflix and Roku stop reporting subscriber counts
• Netflix’s “clip that” feature will let fandoms to drive word-of-mouth marketing
• Netflix just closed its AAA game studio
• Netflix wants to make live TV work. So it’s getting John Mulaney to host its next show.
• YouTube’s latest animation darling gets picked up by Netflix
• Netflix just spent $5 billion on 10 years of WWE Raw
• Netflix axes basic plan as it adds 6 million subscribers