Netflix has been saving something special for a rainy day. No, no, it’s not some sort of special unreleased episode of Strangers Things or Mindhunter.
It’s international subscriber numbers.
According to Netflix, the streaming service had more than 47 million subscribers across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at the end of Q3 2019. That’s double the amount of subscribers it had from those regions at the start of 2017.
Netflix also has more than 29 million subscribers in Latin America and over 14 million in Asia for that same time period.
In total, Netflix currently has 158.3 million customers worldwide. Its non-US and Canada markets now make up more than half of its total subscriber base. As Deadline points out, 90 percent of its growth is from these markets outside of the U.S. Read more…
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