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Today, Explained

Netflix has no chill

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Netflix grew so popular during lockdown, it almost broke the internet. Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect explains how the company has upended tech, Hollywood, and how we spend our free time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's today explained. I'm Sean Ramos from We've Made. Who knows how many episodes about COVID-19

1:39.8

and quarantine, but we've had this big blind spot the entire time. Not one mention of Tiger King

1:46.7

or Love is Blind or Extraction. We have not talked about Netflix. According to data from Nielsen,

1:54.4

the global pandemic has more of us turning to services like Netflix than ever before,

1:59.4

streaming doubled between 2019 and 2020. The company added something like 16 million subscribers

2:07.6

in the first few months of the year. So many people were streaming shows and movies that the EU

2:12.9

had to ask Netflix to lower their video quality. Netflix almost broke the internet during quarantine.

2:20.7

There's no denying the company has changed entertainment as we know it, and our friends over at

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