Sources: as subscriber growth slows, Netflix scours its business to cut costs, including managing cloud spend, limiting corporate swag, and hiring junior staff (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: as subscriber growth slows, Netflix scours its business to cut costs, including managing cloud spend, limiting corporate swag, and hiring junior staff  —  The streaming giant seeks to impose more financial discipline as growth stagnates  —  As Netflix Inc. NFLX 1.67%▲ …

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Sources: Netflix seeks to charge brands ~$65 for 1,000 viewers on its ad-supported tier, more than most other services, with an annual $20M brand spending cap (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

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How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including via an ad-supported tier; Netflix accounts for ~8% of all TV viewership in the US, the most of any network (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including via an ad-supported tier; Netflix accounts for ~8% of all TV viewership in the US, the most of any network  —  Around noon on Wednesday, March 16, hundreds of Netflix Inc. employees gathered on the second floor of the Anaheim Hilton Hotel expecting to hear good news.

Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition (Alex Cranz/The Verge)

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Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition  —  For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled.  And now that’s over.  —  It’s over.

Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition (Alex Cranz/The Verge)

Alex Cranz / The Verge:
Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition  —  For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled.  And now that’s over.  —  It’s over.

Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023  —  Streaming giant plans global expansion of program that helped make ‘Don’t Look Up’ less serious  —  Netflix’s Turbulent Year: How It Reversed Subscriber Losses