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On November 16, Netflix announced the launch of “Top10 on Netflix.com”, a new website with weekly global and country lists of the most popular titles on its service based on its new viewership metrics. Some games in the collection require an active internet connection to play, while others will be available offline. Netflix officially launched mobile games on November 2, 2021, for Android users around the world.

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As of July 2017, Netflix series and movies accounted for more than a third of all prime-time download Internet traffic in North America. That same month, it was reported that Netflix was among several parties—including Sony and Paramount—in early talks to buy online film discovery platform Letterboxd. In the same month, the company announced Reed Hastings would step down from its board in June of that year. In late-2025, Netflix began to make shifts into podcasts, acquiring rights to exclusively carry video from selected shows from iHeartMedia, Barstool Sports, (including Pardon My Take, Spittin’ Chiclets, and The Ryen Russillo Show) and The Ringer.

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• In January 2016, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced a major international expansion of its service into 130 additional countries, making it available worldwide except in China, Syria, North Korea, Kosovo, and Crimea.
• Later that month, Netflix announced an agreement with DreamWorks Animation to commission children’s television series based on its properties, beginning with Turbo Fast, a spin-off of its film Turbo (2013).
• Netflix also holds current and back-catalog rights to television programs distributed by Walt Disney Television, DreamWorks Classics, Kino International, PBS, AMC Global Media, Warner Bros.
• In November 2022, Netflix announced a strategic partnership with The Seven, a Japanese production company owned by TBS Holdings, to produce multiple original live-action titles over the next five years.

At the time, this included programs such as Dark from Germany, Ingobernable from Mexico, and 3% from Brazil. Besides traditional Hollywood markets as well as from partners like the BBC, Sarandos said the company was also looking to expand investments in non-traditional foreign markets due to the growth of viewers outside of North America. Customers with its high-end Sky Q set-top box and service will be able to see Netflix titles alongside their regular Sky channels.

The company shut down its Southern California “Team Blue” AAA gaming studio in October 2024, leading to the departure of developers like Overwatch producer Chacko Sonny, Halo veteran Joseph Staten and God of War art director Rafael Grassetti. In June 2024, Verdu was moved into a new role focusing on “innovation in game development.” The next month, Netflix hired Alain Tascan, vice president of game development at Epic Games, to head up Netflix Games. Netflix opened a mobile game studio in Helsinki, Finland in September 2022, and a new studio, its fifth overall, in southern California in October 2022, alongside the acquisition of Spry Fox in Seattle.

On the same day, Netflix partnered with Lebanon-based Arab Fund For Arts And Culture for supporting the non gamstop casinos UK Arab female filmmakers. It also partnered with Group Effort Initiative, a company founded by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, to provide opportunities behind the camera for those in underrepresented communities. On April 13, 2022, Netflix released the series Our Great National Parks, which was hosted and narrated by former US President Barack Obama. On March 31, Netflix ordered a docuseries that would follow teams in the 2022 Tour de France, which would also be co-produced by Box to Box Films. On March 29, Netflix announced it would open an office in Poland to serve as a hub for its original productions across Central and Eastern Europe.

In February 2024, Netflix joined with Peter Morgan, creator of Netflix series The Crown, to produce the play Patriots on Broadway. On October 12, Netflix signed to build a production complex at Fort Monmouth in Eatontown, New Jersey. On October 11, Netflix signed up with the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board for external measurement of viewership in the UK.