NEWS: Netflix Added More “Originals” to Its Library Last Year Than Existing TV or Film1 min read
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Netflix is famously one of the most cash-happy entertainment companies in the world. Only Disney spends more per year on acquiring and producing content, with the streamer expected to spend something on the order of $15 billion on new shows and movies in 2019 alone. Now that has hit an exciting new milestone with a study revealing that, in 2018, Netflix added more “Originals” to its programming library than licensed content from other studios—something that would have been absolutely baffling back in the days when we were still calling online content “webisodes,” and Netflix had nothing to its name but nascent “maybe this will work” shows like House Of Cards and Orange Is The New Black.
“Netflix Originals” is a surprisingly wide umbrella, covering shows produced by the company, shows it produces in association with more traditional studios (including OITB), and also whole shows and films it picks up in foreign markets and then imports to the U.S. Still, 51% of the titles that Netflix added in the U.S. in 2018 carried the “Original” label.
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