Ted Sarandos

Netflix ended its first fiscal year with an ads business with a jump in year-over-year subscriber growth and, as a result, revenue.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. View From The Top  The world’s largest advertisers have … not changed much in the past year. The top five advertisers – Amazon, L’Oréal, Alibaba, Procter & Gamble and Samsung – held their positions in the latest Ad Age World’s Largest Advertisers ranking. […]

Netflix addressed advertiser frustration with its lack of measurement and targeting at its first-ever upfront this week. Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings and EDO outcomes-based measurement will both be available to Netflix advertisers this year.

Weeks ahead of its first-ever upfront, Netflix is making programmatic strides with a private marketplace and enforcing anti-password sharing.

Netflix reported its first earnings on Thursday since launching ads late last year. The results? AVOD seems to have helped grow Netflix’s profitability in the short term. The streamer reported 7.7 million net new subscribers in Q4, a 4% year-over-year increase in paid memberships, which boosted quarterly revenue by 2%. But it was a good […]

Despite falling short of earnings-per-share estimates in Q4 2020, Netflix’s stock popped Tuesday after beating on revenue and the news that it’s nearing free cash flow profitability. Netflix also reached a new milestone in 2020 with the addition of 37 million net new subscribers. Netflix now has more than 200 million subs worldwide. But Netflix […]