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As viewers flee traditional TV for streaming-video services, Netflix has arguably been the biggest winner, adding subscribers at home and abroad at a clip that has outpaced Wall Street’s expectations. Other tech companies are also angling to capitalize on consumers’ changing habits. Amazon.com Inc.

Viewership of the three most-popular networks for the very young — Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel and the Cartoon Network — is down more than 20 percent this season from year earlier, according to data from Nielsen. It’s a low point in a long-running trend as Netflix Inc., YouTube and other streaming …

Any week now, a company that has been streaming movies and shows for barely a decade will surpass in market value the storied owner of Hollywood’s most profitable film studio, the world’s most lucrative theme parks, prosperous television and cable networks, and thriving story franchises like Star Wars …

According to Ampere Analysis, via Business Insider, sci-fi and fantasy has become the most popular genre of Netflix original programming in Q1 of 2018, and Netflix is ramping up production to meet an anticipated increase in demand. Ampere Analysis went on to say the genre will comprise 29 percent of …

Everybody, out of Neflix’s way! That seems to be the message following last night’s release of quarterly financial results by the Barron’s Next 50 stock. Subscribers are up, revenue is up, margins are up. The shares are up, too, by more than 9% today, and nearing 70% for the year.

Netflix’s sale follows a quarter in which it added 7.41 million subscribers, its strongest start to a year since going public 16 years ago. Moody’s Investors Service upgraded the company’s credit ratings earlier this month, citing expectations that growth will continue and eventually turn its cash flows positive.

LILLE, France — Netflix bowed its first Danish original, “The Rain,” one of the most awaited of Series Mania’s competition contenders, on Saturday evening, at the French drama series festival. Produced by Denmark’s Miso Film, which also has the buzzed up “Warrior” in competition, and co-created by …

Perhaps none has more at stake than Televisa, the world’s biggest creator of Spanish-language television programming. Prime-time novelas once generated about 45% of the company’s revenue. Last year, the broadcaster posted its worst results in two decades, after years of losing viewers to Netflix, …