Changing horses mid-streaming? Netflix’s next act

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Changing horses mid-streaming? Netflix’s next act
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:19:42
• Published: 2021-07-21 12:11

On the face of it, the streaming giant’s quarterly results were lacklustre. But our media editor explains why its international growth looks promising, and how it is spreading its bets. A largely uncontested purge of LGBT accounts from China’s social-media platform WeChat reveals much about a growing Chinese-nationalist narrative online. And why researchers are cataloguing the microbes of big cities.

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