Today Netflix announced the launch of their first publication, Netflix Pause.
Netflix Pause asks viewers to hit pause with them on new Netflix releases by diving deep into niche obsessions, existential questions, and unexpected themes, all through the lens of film and TV.
Netflix Pause is an email publication, with Netflix being the first Australian media brand to be publishing through Substack. Under the Netflix Pause umbrella, Netflix has got three free newsletters, all sent out weekly and covering the latest in screen culture. Subscribe here to get all three in your inbox.
Every Tuesday, they send out Scene & Heard, where a guest writer reflects on just one scene from a recent Netflix release. Read the first edition here, which featured Bec Shaw writing on The Circle’s poetry slam. Future editions will be drawn from a writers’ roster that includes cook and food writer Adam Liaw, pop culture maven and author of No Way! Okay, Fine Brodie Lancaster, modern polymath DJ/chef/writer/dad Andrew Levins, and YA expert and author of YA rom-coms You Were Made For Me and What I Like About Me Jenna Guillaume.
On Thursdays subscribers will get Close All Tabs, an Internet roundup of the best articles, interviews, memes, and ephemera from your favourite shows and films. Netflix are online 24/7 so you don’t have to be. Read the first edition here.
Each Friday, Michael Sun, the Netflix culture editor at Junkee unpacks a new Netflix title in Now Streaming, alongside some related viewing recommendations, and — more generally — things he can’t stop thinking about. Consider this a cheat sheet on what to watch and. The first edition will be out today.
Netflix reported its Q1 2021 financials in April. Revenue grew 24% year over year and was in line with the beginning of quarter forecast, while operating profit and margin reached all-time highs.
Netflix finished Q1’21 with 208m paid memberships, up 14% year over year, but below the guidance forecast of 210m paid memberships. Netflix say they believe paid membership growth slowed due to the big Covid-19 pull forward in 2020 and a lighter content slate in the first half of this year, due to Covid-19 production delays.