{"id":561302,"date":"2023-01-23T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=561302"},"modified":"2023-01-23T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:15:02","slug":"did-netflix-break-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/did-netflix-break-amazon","title":{"rendered":"Did Netflix Break Amazon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post includes affiliate links. If you purchase anything through these affiliated links, 247wallst.com may earn a commission. Netflix did not just beat expectations for the number of subscribers it added in the fourth quarter. It crushed them. The company had forecast it would add 4.5 million. The number turned out to be 7.7 million. That put paid membership worldwide at 231 million. By most measures, that is the highest paid subscriber level of any streaming service worldwide. The increase came at the expense of other companies. Amazon is at the top of that list. Its total subscriber count is estimated to be 200 million. One statistic about the streaming business is not good for most streaming companies. The average American has 3.4 services and pays an average of $8.53 monthly. Only two services have massive libraries of movies and TV shows. These are Amazon and Netflix. ( Click here for the 25 best original Netflix movies. ) Why are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix crushed expectations for the number of subscribers it added in the fourth quarter. Where did these subscribers come from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}