Netflix is currently the world's most popular video streaming service ever. At an annual subscription fee of $120 per customer, it now has 74 million subscribers, 44 million of them in the United States.
Netflix has many competitors for its media streaming On Demand, such as Vudu, YouTube, and iTunes.
Netflix gift cards, usually worth about $30, can be used to purchase a monthly subscriptions to the streaming service itself.
Similar to other On Demand services, movies and shows that are viewable in Free mode come and go to make room for newer releases. In addition, most films distributed by Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. streaming on Netflix USA are restricted to English and Spanish audio and subtitles.
Disney movies became available on Netflix from December 2012 to 2019, after the closure of Disney Movies Online, which lasted from 2009 to the end of 2012.
History[]
Netflix launched on January 16, 2007.
Closed captions were first supported on all movies and TV shows in September 2014.
Pricing[]
Basic:
- $7.99/month (prior to January 15, 2019)
- $8.99/month (January 15, 2019 - April 16, 2022)
- $9.99/month (April 17, 2022 - July 18, 2023)
Standard:
- $9.99/month (prior to October 19, 2017)
- $10.99/month (October 19, 2017 - January 14, 2019)
- $12.99/month (January 15, 2019 - October 28, 2020)
- $13.99/month (October 29, 2020 - April 16, 2022)
- $15.49/month (April 17, 2022 - present)
Premium:
- $11.99/month (prior to October 19, 2017)
- $13.99/month (October 19, 2017 - January 14, 2019)
- $15.99/month (January 15, 2019 - October 28, 2020)
- $17.99/month (October 29, 2020 - April 16, 2022)
- $19.99/month (April 17, 2022 - present)
Programming[]
Title | Premiere date | Last available |
---|---|---|
Shrek 2 |
April 30, 2022 (USA) | |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 1) |
April 1, 2012 | present |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 2) |
May 10, 2012 | present |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 3) |
March 16, 2013 | present |
File:Mlpeg netflix.jpg My Little Pony: Equestria Girls |
October 4, 2013 | October 31, 2018 |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 4) |
June 10, 2014 | present |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks |
December 17, 2014 | February 28, 2020 |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 5) |
July 30, 2015 (part 1) December 28, 2015 (part 2) |
January 31, 2022* |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Friendship Games |
December 1, 2015 | February 28, 2021 |
Minions | April 24, 2016 | October 24, 2017 (USA) |
Hotel Transylvania 2 | April 27, 2016 | present (as of October 27, 2022) |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 6) |
July 30, 2016 (part 1) December 20, 2016 (part 2) |
January 31, 2022 |
Zootopia | September 20, 2016 | March 20, 2018 |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree |
October 1, 2016 | November 1, 2021 |
The Angry Birds Movie | December 1, 2016 | May 31, 2018 (USA) |
Finding Dory | February 1, 2017 | August 1, 2018 |
The Secret Life of Pets | April 22, 2017 | October 21, 2018 (USA) |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
June 1, 2017 | December 31, 2020 (USA) |
Moana | June 20, 2017 | December 20, 2018 |
Sing | August 3, 2017 | February 3, 2019 (USA) |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 7) |
September 4, 2017 (part 1) November 28, 2017 (part 2) |
January 31, 2022 |
My Little Pony: Happy Birthday to You! | September 14, 2017 | November 1, 2021 |
My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Tales of Canterlot High |
October 1, 2017 | September 30, 2022 |
Smurfs: The Lost Village | October 20, 2017 | April 19, 2019 (USA) |
Cars 3 | January 31, 2018 | July 31, 2019 |
Despicable Me 3 |
April 5, 2018 | October 5, 2019 |
Shrek |
May 1, 2018 | April 30, 2022 (USA) |
Coco |
May 29, 2018 | November 29, 2019 |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship |
October 1, 2018 | December 31, 2021 |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rollercoaster of Friendship |
October 1, 2018 | December 31, 2021 |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (season 8) |
November 12, 2018 | January 31, 2022 |
My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever |
November 25, 2018 | December 31, 2021 |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | December 2, 2018 | December 31, 2022 (USA) |
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | January 24, 2019 | July 23, 2020 |
Incredibles 2 | January 30, 2019 | July 30, 2020 |
The Grinch | June 5, 2019 | December 5, 2020 |
Ralph Breaks the Internet | June 11, 2019 | December 9, 2020 |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | June 26, 2019 | December 26, 2020 |
The Secret Life of Pets 2 | December 27, 2019 | June 27, 2021 |
Arthur Christmas | January 1, 2020 | July 31, 2022 (USA) |
Hop | January 16, 2020 | January 16, 2023 (USA) |
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Castle in the Sky My Neighbor Totoro Kiki's Delivery Service Princess Mononoke Spirited Away Howl's Moving Castle Ponyo |
February 1, 2020 (worldwide except USA and Japan) |
present |
The Angry Birds Movie 2 | February 27, 2020 | August 27, 2021 |
Despicable Me | April 16, 2020 | October 31, 2022 (USA) |
The Lorax | July 7, 2020 | January 6, 2022 (USA) |
The Smurfs | September 1, 2020 | November 30, 2022 (USA) |
The Smurfs 2 | September 15, 2020 | November 30, 2022 (USA) |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | November 15, 2020 | December 31, 2022 (USA) |
Despicable Me 2 | February 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 (USA) |
Storks | December 6, 2022 | present |
My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) | June 19, 2023 | present |
(*) Some Eastern European countries, like the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, still carry Season 5 of this show.