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Launched in 2007, Netflix is a subscription video-on-demand over-the-top streaming media service. Netflix is the most-subscribed video-on-demand global streaming media service, with 325 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2026.

Netflix originally housed only content acquired from other studios. However, starting in 2013, Netflix began creating its own programs, with Hemlock Grove, Orange Is the New Black, and House of Cards among the first to carry the “Netflix Original” branding. The streamer’s first original film, Beasts of No Nation, arrived in 2015.