Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade

blitzar•about 2 hours ago

Is that all?

Netflix generated $39 billion in revenue in 2024 - I would not doubt that on all the internal productions the accounts are renting the studio lot / cameras / crew / marketing / renting the netflix jet etc at premium rates from the parent company.

lencastre•about 2 hours ago

the mind boggles what those numbers could actually build (as in actual physical construction) and yet here we are with so much „entertainment“ options we can‘t decide what to watch.

gdulli•about 1 hour ago

They've solved that problem by baking a surveillance infrastructure into the system. The personalized home screen (boosted by a crippled browse interface) decides what they want you to watch.

Argonaut998•about 3 hours ago

I struggle to remember hardly anything memorable from Netflix, especially their movies, despite that amount of investment.

K-Pop Demon Hunters, what else? The rest is mostly if not all slop. Even looking now at their top 10 most popular movies we have a generic Rock movie in second place

ctoa•about 1 hour ago

BoJack Horseman is maybe my favorite show of all time. But that did start in 2014 and seems like a relic of an older Netflix that would commit to something for 6 seasons.

SyneRyder•about 3 hours ago

Stranger Things, and back in the day Orange Is The New Black and House Of Cards were the reasons to have Netflix. (I also thought Glow was really excellent, but that's me. I know some people had a real attachment to Sense 8, but that one wasn't for me.)

I haven't been a Netflix subscriber for years now though, not since they diluted Netflix Original to mean anything they currently had an exclusive distribution license to in your country. (Occupied / Okkupert was great, at least in the season, but Netflix had nothing to do with making it.)

EDIT: Oh, and the Daredevil series was excellent, but I think of that as Marvel rather than Netflix.

Argonaut998•about 2 hours ago

Their TV shows are definitely better than the movies by far but even then I can’t think of one that I watched that didn’t decline in quality as time went on. Even the last season of Stranger Things was pretty poor

triceratops•about 2 hours ago

Money Heist and Squid Game were big globally. Beef and The Queen's Gambit won a ton of awards.

You can't argue with their awards record in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_...

Remember that unlike HBO, Netflix has to produce both types of content: prestige TV and filler. They position themselves as the alternative to all TV.

erichocean•12 minutes ago

People also liked Arcane.

expedition32•12 minutes ago

Netflix makes what people actually watch (remember they have the EXACT numbers) not what the critics like.

When folks come home from a hard day of work they don't want HBO.

criticalfault•about 3 hours ago

not 100% sure if theirs...

the tomorrow war marvels the punisher witcher

m463•about 1 hour ago

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

I think the trick is getting up from the all-you-can-eat buffet at the right time.

dominotw•about 2 hours ago

narcos

Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade

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