Netflix added 18.9 million subscribers, the company’s best-ever quarter

Well, after more than 12 years, ~50 quarters, and dozens of Chartr charts using the data, Netflix just broke out its final batch of quarterly subscription figures, as the streamer looks to shift its focus to other metrics (mostly financial ones).

Yes, we are still watching

Reed Hastings’ company has gone out with a bang in the subscriber department, though, reporting a record-breaking quarter where it added almost 19 million subscribers to cross the 300 million paid memberships threshold, buoyed by its forays into live sports streaming.

Netflix is up more than 13% in early trading, with plenty besides the subscriber numbers for investors to enjoy, like the $10.25 billion in revenue and $1.9 billion of net profit that the streamer hauled in.

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