Netflix
Numbers
What the show said, with receipts
Every figure the hosts put on the record for Netflix, with its source and the date it was captured. The audited statements from the company's own filings are under Financials.
Freshness
0
Current (≤6 mo)
0
Recent (≤18 mo)
3
Older
Freshness is measured from each figure’s capture date, not from the episode date. An older figure is not wrong; it is a figure that has had time to move.
Reported figures
Paid subscribers (2024 Q3)
2 yr~282M
in 190+ countries; ad-supported tier adds incremental reach at lower price points
[Netflix Q3 2024 earnings] · as of 2024-09
Content spend (2024)
3 yr~$17B
split between licensed content and Netflix Originals; Originals are amortized over multi-year viewing windows
[Netflix 2024 disclosures] · as of 2024
Netflix offered to Blockbuster for $50M (2000)
27 yr$50M
Blockbuster's CEO laughed and declined. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010.
[Acquired Netflix Part 1] · as of 2000
- David:Netflix went to Blockbuster in 2000 and offered to sell the company for $50 million. The Blockbuster executives laughed them out of the room. Ten years later Blockbuster was bankrupt.[Acquired Netflix Part 1, ch. The Blockbuster meeting]