{"id":2289803,"date":"2026-02-19T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2289803"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:08:10","slug":"ted-sarandos-blames-netflix-stock-decline-on-wbd-bidding-war-industry-uncertainty-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ted-sarandos-blames-netflix-stock-decline-on-wbd-bidding-war-industry-uncertainty-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Sarandos Blames Netflix Stock Decline on Wbd Bidding War, Industry Uncertainty and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> stock continues to face pressure amid its $83 billion pursuit of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> streaming and studio assets, co-ceo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1848253\/\">Ted Sarandos<\/a> blamed the recent volatility largely on the ongoing bidding war with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>, as well as general uncertainty across the industry and around the \u201cAI trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That pressure has raised questions about just how high Netflix may be willing to counter as Paramount has been given the opportunity to present its \u201cbest and final\u201d offer for all of Wbd by Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been some headwind in the stock. There\u2019s been some headwind in the sector and there\u2019s been some headwind for because of the AI trade, which I think is ironic,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Netflix stock continues to face pressure amid its $83 billion pursuit of Warner Bros. streaming and studio assets, co-ceo Ted Sarandos blamed the recent volatility largely on the ongoing bidding war with Paramount, as well as general uncertainty across the industry and around the \u201cAI trade.\u201d That pressure has raised questions about just how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2289803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ted-Sarandos-Blames-Netflix-Stock-Decline-on-Wbd-Bidding-War.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289805,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289803\/revisions\/2289805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}