Netflix continues to gain ground in France.

The platform now has more than 10 million paying subscribers there, compared to 6.7 million in 2020, announced its co-CEO Ted Sarandos in an interview with

Sunday newspaper

.

He thus lifts the veil on this data for the first time in two years.

“We have 222 million subscribers worldwide,” further recalls the leader of the American giant, who lost some for the first time this year after a long period of uninterrupted growth.

In France, “today we have more than 10 million households.

A household represents five accounts, so the number of subscribers (users) is even higher”.

Asked about the reasons for his presence on Monday at the "Choose France" summit, set up by Emmanuel Macron, Ted Sarandos underlines Netflix's status as a "great exporter of French culture", illustrated by the "global successes" of the

Lupin

series or the film

Without respite

, with Franck Gastambide.

In addition to the investment this year of 200 million euros in French creation, "we are launching an incubator which will bring experienced screenwriters and emerging talents to work together, under the leadership of Hollywood showrunner Neal Baer (

Urgences

and

New York Police judicial

)”, he adds, referring to “thirty apprentices in France” on house productions in 2021.

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Despite the signing of an agreement in January on the chronology of the media, which allows Netflix to broadcast films 15 months after their theatrical release, against 36 months previously, his boss still considers this "unsustainable model", preferring a period of "a few weeks".

More generally, the leader recalls that the firm is working on the "worldwide" launch of a new cheaper offer with advertising, for which "the date has not yet been fixed", and on a "new billing system" for sharing of passwords.

Asked also about a possible investment in television sports rights, he believes that this is not in the "interest" of the platform, "given the explosion in the amount of these rights".

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