Netflix‘s Ted Sarandos Is Feeling ’Better and Better’ About $17 Billion Content Budget: ‘We’re Spending at About the Right Level’

Following 1 / 4 that noticed Netflix launch a number of of its hottest titles of all time — per the streamer’s self-reported inner measurements — and subscriber progress after two straight quarters of losses, co-CEO and chief content material officer Ted Sarandos is feeling “higher and higher” concerning the firm’s $17 billion content material spend price range.

“Each the scope and scale, in addition to the vary and cadence of hits is enhancing,” Sarandos stated throughout Netflix’s prerecorded Q3 earnings interview together with his fellow execs, which was launched Tuesday afternoon following the announcement of the third-quarter outcomes. “So I really feel higher and higher about that $17 billion of content material spend as a result of what we’ve got to do is be higher and higher at getting extra affect per billion greenback spent than anybody else. And that’s how we’re specializing in it. So I feel we’re spending at about the precise stage. And as we re-accelerate income, we’ll revisit that quantity, in fact. However we’re a reasonably disciplined bunch about that.”

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On Tuesday, the streaming large reported 2.41 million web new paid subscribers in Q3, together with a acquire of 100,000 within the U.S./Canada area, to face at 223.1 million worldwide as of the tip of September. That handily topped Netflix’s earlier forecast of a 1 million pickup for the interval.

Netflix particularly known as out these Q3 titles as “a few of our most watched collection and movies of all time”: Ryan Murphy restricted collection “Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” the second half of “Stranger Issues” Season 4, Korean collection “Extraordinary Lawyer Woo,” and films “The Grey Man” and “Purple Hearts.”

Later within the Netflix earnings interview, Sarandos spoke about what is extremely anticipated to be a This fall hit for Netflix, the “Knives Out” sequel “Glass Onion,” which will probably be launched in theaters, however just for one week and on restricted screens.

“We’re within the enterprise of entertaining our members with Netflix films on Netflix,” Sarandos stated. “In order that’s the place we focus all of our energies and most of our spends. Our movies are at all times closely featured in movie festivals all over the world as a result of they’re in demand, made by the best filmmakers on the planet. For all these people who can’t get to a metropolis the place a competition is, this one-week launch on 600 screens is a means of making entry to the movie and constructing buzz, the identical factor we’re doing in these festivals.”

Sarandos stated to take a look at the one-week theatrical launch for “Glass Onion,” which begins Nov. 23, one month earlier than it hits Netflix, “as simply one other strategy to construct anticipation for the movie and construct buzz and popularity for the movie forward its Netflix launch” fairly than evaluating it to the windowing of a standard studio movie.

:There’s every kind of debates on a regular basis forwards and backwards, however there isn’t a query internally that we make our films for our members and we actually need them to look at them on Netflix,” Sarandos stated. “After all, with one week of launch in theaters, most individuals will see it on Netflix, identical to they see all films. Most individuals watch most films at residence. This explicit launch sits someplace between that week that we’ve got to run films to qualify for awards and the time that we run them in a movie competition and the time we journey them round, however it’s a means of condensing that right into a louder occasion.”