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Yes, that $2.8 billion handed to them by David Ellison and Co. is only a small part of Netflix\u2019s annual content spend, as co-CEOs Ted Sarandos<\/a> and Greg Peters<\/a> noted when receiving the fee: \u201cThis year, we\u2019ll invest approximately $20 billion in quality films and series and will expand our entertaining offering.\u201d<\/p>\n But lets play out the logic of an extra $2.8 billion in this column. What happens if Netflix uses this windfall to crack the creator economy wide open? Despite its 325 million subscribers, there\u2019s two problems that the streaming giant hasn\u2019t yet solved:<\/p>\n Problem 1: Defending Its Churn Advantage<\/p>\n Netflix has remarkably low churn for a subscription product. But they\u2019ve also reached…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paramount handed Netflix a $2.8 billion breakup fee on Feb. 27 after outbidding the streaming giant for Warner Bros. Discovery. While Wall Street talks about buybacks and balance sheets, I want to talk about something more interesting. Yes, that $2.8 billion handed to them by David Ellison and Co. is only a small part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2321723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2321722","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\/03\/Netflix-Just-Got-an-Extra-28-Billion-Heres-What-It.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321722","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=2321722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321724,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321722\/revisions\/2321724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}