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HBO’s Succession and FX’s The Bear led all shows with six wins each, including Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series, respectively. Netflix’s Beef took five trophies including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. HBO’s now-wrapped Succession also was an Emmys force, with six big wins including its third for Outstanding Drama Series. Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook won Best Actor and Actress in a Drama, and Matthew Macfadyen went back-to-back in the Supporting Actor in a Drama category. It also won for Directing and Writing for a Drama Series.

The descriptive tags that the streaming service runs near each title — like “slick” for the show “Suits” — have proved crucial to getting people to click play.

Netflix is seeing strong growth of its advertising-based plan, having recently eclipsed 23 million global monthly active users, president of advertising Amy Reinhard said Wednesday. “The thing we’re really excited about is the engagement,” she said. Of Netflix’s customers on ad-supported plans, 85% are streaming on the platform for more than two hours per day, she said.

30 Rock creator and star Tina Fey is returning to the small screen with The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 feature film, which she co-created with fellow 30 Rock alums Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. The high-profile comedy project, which marks Fey’s first TV starring role since 30 Rock, was taken out to the marketplace just before the holidays. In a very competitive situation with multiple bidders, it landed at Netflix with an eight-episode series order.

The suit alleged that the streamer was overly optimistic about its business prospects despite it being aware of the impact account-sharing would have on growth.

Netflix has said it plans to be in gaming for years to come. Now the company is trying to figure out how to make money from it, a potential shift in strategy for the streamer. Some of the ideas that have been discussed include in-app purchases, charging for more sophisticated games it is developing or giving subscribers to its newer ad-supported tier access to games with ads in them, according to people familiar with the discussions. Pictured: Netflix’s most popular original game is tied to its Too Hot to Handle reality show.

The parade of CEO pay disclosures in regulatory filings in 2023 will be remembered for bad timing, ugly optics and symbolic shareholder votes.

Highlights include the plight of stand-up, the enduring appeal of Gilmore Girls and the meteoric rise of South Korean TV.

Warrior won’t be returning for a fourth season on Max. However, the existing three seasons of the martial arts crime drama are set to find additional audiences as Netflix has picked up the series’ library in a co-exclusive deal with Max in Warner Bros. Discovery streamer’s markets.

The streamer had joined a group of big brands to suspend ads on the platform after the billionaire agreed with an antisemitic post.

With help from the first four episodes of the final season, the Netflix series garnered 943M minutes viewed from November 13 to November 19.

There was a time when streamers — led by Netflix, burning a hole in its balance sheet with annual negative cash flow in the billions — were banking on double-digit subscriber growth. And they were spending on content like there was no tomorrow. Well, tomorrow came.

The streamer’s massive list of viewing time stats reveals a very diverse top of the chart and that users outside the U.S. still love The Office.

Newcomers Netflix and Disney Plus were not tracked.

Netflix ripped the curtain wide open on Tuesday, releasing viewership data for nearly its entire catalog of original and acquired content. It is an unprecedented move for any streamer. The timing certainly raises questions.

Netflix today has revealed viewership data for 99% of its entire catalog, or about 18,000 titles around the world. It published the numbers in a report, What We Watched, capturing viewing from January to June of 2023. It is the first edition of a planned semi-annual look at viewership on the leading streaming service. The initiative is to document the highs, lows and in-betweens of the platform instead of delivering the customary lists of only the top-performing programming.

Netflix said it expects to pay its co-CEOs, Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, $40 million each in 2024, the same target as in 2023. Both executives get a compensation package of $3 million in base salary, $6 million in bonuses, $15.5 million in restricted stock units and $15.5 million in performance-based restricted stock units, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Executive chairman Reed Hastings is expected to get total compensation of $1 million.

When the U.S. streaming giants, Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video, entered India seven years ago, they promised to shake up one of the world’s most important entertainment markets, a film-obsessed nation with more than 1 billion people and a homegrown moviemaking industry with fans worldwide. In the last four years, however, a chill has swept through the streaming industry in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party tightened its grip on the country’s political discourse and the American technology platforms that host it. Today, a culture of self-censorship pervades the streaming industry in Indiaetflix, manifesting in ways both dramatic and subtle.

No Hard Feelings landed on Netflix on Oct. 22, four months after its theatrical debut, and immediately took hold of the Nielsen Streaming Top 10. The Jennifer Lawrence movie was the most-streamed title during the week of Oct. 23-29 with a healthy 1.1 billion minutes watched. The second-most-streamed title of the week was Suits.

Competition series Squid Game: The Challenge has debuted on Netflix. Based on the hit drama from 2021, it sees 456 players enter and try to win $4.56 million. Five episodes are available Nov. 22. Four more come out Nov. 29, and the season finale premieres Dec. 6.

Netflix has started running promos prominently on the platform in the U.S. that Young Sheldon will be “coming soon.” The first five seasons of the popular Warner Bros. TV comedy series, which is set to end its run on CBS with the upcoming seventh season, will start streaming on Netflix in the US starting Nov. 24. In the U.S., the Big Bang Theory spinoff had been streaming on Warner Bros. TV sibling Max which landed the exclusive streaming rights in 2020 having also secured exclusively the mothership series. Max had been billed as the U.S. streaming home of the Big Bang Theory franchise that also includes a new spinoff in development as a Max original.

In its second showing on the Nielsen Streaming Top 10, The Fall of the House of Usher is already setting a strong show as it becomes the only title to consistently outperform Suits on the overall chart in back-to-back weeks since its Netflix debut. During the viewing window, the Edgar Allen Poe-inspired series raked in an additional 1.5 billion minutes viewed during its first full week of availability, pushing it to No. 1 again with a 19% jump from its opening figure of 1.2 billion minutes.

The Egyptian Theatre, a historic movie house that hosted Hollywood’s first film premiere a century ago, will re-open to the public this week after a multi-million-dollar restoration by Netflix. The company that pioneered watching movies at home stepped in three years ago to refurbish one of the most famous theaters in Los Angeles. Built during the silent film era, the Egyptian rolled out Hollywood’s first red carpet for the premiere of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks in 1922.

Netflix has laid off a handful of executives in its drama and overall deals divisions including Alex Sapot and Pete Corona. Sapot has been with the company for over seven years and was director, original series. Corona was director of drama series and was with the company for over five years.

After one year of operation, Netflix’s ad-supported option will offer new advertising and measurement innovations. In 2024, Netflix will offer global advertisers new measurement data for “campaign verification” via third-party providers. It did not provide further details about this. During the past 12 months, Netflix has rolled out global third-party verification from Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify, as well as measurement/business outcome data from EDO Inc. Netflix also launched Nielsen One measurement in the U.S.

In the year since advertising began running on Netflix, the company said it has reached 15 million monthly active users on its ad-supported subscription tier. That’s up from the 5 million MAUs announced last May and follows the company’s assertion in last month’s earnings report that the Basic With Ads tier grew 70% in the third quarter. The MAU metric, while common in the streaming ad sector, is not the same as paid subscribers. Netflix has not yet broken out how many of its 247 million global subscribers are on the entry-level ad tier, which launched in 12 countries before expanding globally.

Filmmaker and media mogul Tyler Perry has a new, multi-year, first-look deal with Netflix that will see him write, direct and produce features for the streamer. News of the creative partnership comes following Perry’s pact with Amazon Studios in November 2022 to write, direct and produce four features for Prime Video. Perry comes to it after working extensively with Netflix in recent years, including on the forthcoming features Six Triple Eight and Mea Culpa.