While some companies, including Spotify, Amazon, and Patreon, have been quick to jump at the opportunity to add external payment links to their apps, Netflix is taking a slower approach.
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Netflix has an ambitious financial goal that all but guarantees five years of price increases. Realistically, Netflix just being in business guarantees higher subscription prices over time, but this target comes with an aggressive deadline.
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In February 2022, a hostage situation unfolded at an Apple Store location in Amsterdam when a gunman demanded a $227 million ransom in cryptocurrency. The hostage and other Apple Store visitors escaped the situation safely, while the gunman died from injuries sustained when he was hit by a police vehicle.
Netflix subsequently announced its plans to create a thriller based on the situation, called iHostage, which debuted this week.
As part of the production of iHostage, Netflix recreated the Amsterdam Apple Store from scratch – and has shared a behind-the-scenes video of what that process entailed.
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Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos will next be seen in a cameo appearance on an Apple TV+ show, The Studio. Ahead of that debut though, in a new interview Sarandos was asked his thoughts about Apple’s streamer as a competitor to Netflix. His answer? “I don’t understand it.”
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Netflix has long championed the binge model of TV releases, dropping full seasons all at once. Recently though, split-seasons have become more common. Now, Netflix’s content head has explained why.
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Netflix is by far the most dominant player in streaming, and today the company revealed its content release plans for 2025 with lots of big new shows and movies debuting. Here are the highlights.
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Rejoice iPhone and iPad users, Netflix has added a new button that will surely save you time and improve your overall life.
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Netflix is hiking its prices once again. Starting today, the cheapest Netflix plan will cost $7.99 per month, while the top-of-the-line plan with 4K streaming will cost you a cool $24.99 monthly.
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Pretty much every video streaming platform has DRM-protected content, which aims to prevent users from distributing copyrighted material. Unfortunately, this also means that users can’t easily share screenshots of specific moments of something they’re watching with others – but Netflix is introducing a new feature that will change that.
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After discontinuing its app for the third generation Apple TV, Netflix has just confirmed that it will soon end support for some old iPhones and iPads. More specifically, the company will no longer provide updates compatible with devices running iOS 16.
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Monument Valley is a popular puzzle game developed by Ustwo Games, and is widely known by iOS users. With two versions highly acclaimed by critics and players, the game is now getting another sequel called “Monument Valley 3” – but it will only be available to Netflix subscribers.
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It’s been a while since Netflix began cracking down on password sharing, so that only people in the same location can share a Netflix account. Although the platform has continued to grow despite this, the number of new subscribers has been falling in recent quarters – which could be a result of the anti-sharing measures.
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Earlier this year, Netflix announced to investors that it would phase out its most affordable ad-free subscription. According to users on Reddit, that change is now going into effect and people who are subscribed to the $11.99 per month ad-free tier are being cut off.
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Tubi’s UK launch is set to happen later today, the free streaming video service offering Brits access to more than 20,000 movies and TV episodes from major studios like Disney and Sony …
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Netflix isn’t afraid to change your experience with its app. The streaming giant revealed today that a major redesign is coming for the Netflix app across TV devices like the Apple TV 4K, Chromecast, and smart TVs. Select users will start seeing it in their Netflix app soon.
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Netflix has announced that it is dropping support for select older generations of Apple TV. In an email sent to subscribers this week, Netflix said that it is “sunsetting support” for the Apple TV (2nd generation) and Apple TV (3rd generation) on July 31.
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Phishing scams are abundant and one of the latest we’ve seen is trying to convince Netflix customers their accounts have “expired” with an option to extend their membership for free for 90 days. Here are the details and tips on how to help friends and family stay safe.
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The number of Netflix subscribers increased by 9.3M last quarter, to hit 270M globally – way higher than analysts had expected. However, the company says that it won’t (normally) reveal subscriber numbers in future …
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Subscription creep – the term given to increases in subscription fees after someone has signed up – hit a full two-thirds of US consumers in the past year.
Some of the increases were steep ones, and others imposed with little notice …
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Update (Feb. 27 at 5:53 p.m. ET): Netflix says that this change impacts subscribers of the Basic plan in certain countries, including the United States and Canada.
Netflix is severing ties with Apple’s App Store billing system for good. Netflix stopped allowing new and rejoining subscribers to sign up with App Store billing back in 2018, but Netflix subscribers who were paying through Apple at the time were allowed to continue doing so. Now, that’s finally about to change.
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Apple Arcade is being criticized by developers for lack of transparency around payments, falling payouts, and cancelled projects.
There is, though, hope that Netflix’s move into gaming may lead Apple to showing its own subscription games service more love …
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The subscription streaming spend of the average American is now close to a thousand dollars per year, according to a new report.
While more than half of subscribers have responded to recent steep price increases by cancelling at least one of their streaming subscriptions, the overall spend keeps rising …
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Following in the footsteps of Netflix, both Hulu and Disney+ password sharing crackdowns are now underway.
Disney+ began its clampdown in Canada, and is now emailing US members to announce new terms and conditions which specifically include restrictions on sharing passwords across households …
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As revealed last week, the Netflix app won’t be available on Vision Pro when it launches next week, nor will Netflix let users run the iPad version of the app on their device. In a new interview with Ben Thompson of Stratechery today, Netflix’s co-CEO Greg Peters attempts to offer an explanation for this decision.
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