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Netflix now has nearly 118 million streaming subscribers globally

The streaming company added 8.3 million subscribers last quarter.

“Stranger Things 2” promo image of four kids on bikes, stopped on a paved road, looking at a threatening cloud on the horizon.
“Stranger Things 2” promo image of four kids on bikes, stopped on a paved road, looking at a threatening cloud on the horizon.
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Rani Molla
Rani Molla was a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade — often in charts — including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.

Netflix hit a record 117.6 million subscribers last quarter, thanks to an addition of 1.9 million domestic and 6.4 million international streaming subscribers. About 55 million of those are U.S. subscribers. For comparison, there are about 94 million pay TV subscribers in the U.S.

International growth rates — up 11 percent in the fourth quarter compared to Q3 — continued to outpace domestic growth rates of under 4 percent. Netflix’s international subscriber numbers surpassed domestic for the first time last year.

Another 3.4 million people still get Netflix DVDs in the mail.


This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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