If there are winners of the global corona pandemic, then the US streaming provider Netflix should be one of them. In March of the current year, the demand was so great that the service had to lower the bit rate of its streams in order not to overload the Internet due to the high traffic. Now the company has released its results for the past quarter. Netflix has managed to acquire a total of 2.2 million new customers. In the fourth quarter, the service intends to gain another six million new users and thus increase the total number to 201 million subscribers. Should this actually succeed, 2020 is the most successful year for Netflix and the current record of 28, 6 million new customers from the year 2018 would be exceeded.

To achieve sustained growth, Netflix needs in first and foremost new content from his top series. For this reason, the company announced that it had just started filming the fourth season of Stranger Things. The on 15. July 2016 started mystery series about Elfi (OT: Eleven) is very popular worldwide. But the Umbrella Academy was also able to convince in the current calendar year. In the first 28 days around 43 Millions of viewers the comic book adaptation. In addition, Netflix plans to publish more exclusive content in Q4.

Furthermore, the Netflix top management announced that there would be more and more competition in the streaming market with Disney + and Co. However, they are convinced that they will be able to assert themselves against said services in the future. However, it remains to be seen whether this will succeed. With the Star Wars franchise and the hit series “The Mandalorian”, Disney definitely has a convincing sales hit in its program. In addition, more and more Marvel series are likely to start on Disney + in the coming years, which should also include the return of the punisher. The first two seasons of Frank Castle’s campaign of revenge were extremely successful on Netflix and many fans are currently longingly waiting for a sequel