9 Amazing Netflix Statistics in 2020

Crown king of streaming world for decades, Netflix keeps some of the eye opening revenue and usage statistics among its competitors including Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus. 

Here are 9 mind blowing facts and stats about Netflix that shows its insane growth and supremacy:

1.Despite Insane Competition, Netflix still has the largest count of subscribers

With 167 million users all around the world, Netflix leads the pack in 2020. While Amazon Prime Video enjoys the 2nd place in terms of subscribers with estimated 150 million at the end of 2019. 

2.41% of binge-watchers uses Netflix for free thanks to account sharing and password

According MoffeNathonson research, 41% streamers uses their friends and family accounts and don’t pay at all. 

3. Netflix was one of the first streaming services that offers dedicated apps on multiple devices

In 2008 Netflix partnered with Xbox 360, Blu-ray disc players, and TV set-top boxes. In 2009, Netflix landed on the PS3 and smart TVs. By 2010, Netflix rounded the bases for streaming devices, launching on Apple’s iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nintendo Wii and more.

4. The insane Netflix demand resulted extensive ISP throttling 

In 2014, after large number of subscriber’s complaint regarding buffering, downloading and poor video quality issues, Netflix paid Comcast hefty amount to mutually agree on stop throttling issues. 

5. Netflix cracked down and blocked VPN servers and proxies to stop region unblocking

On February 29th 2016, Netflix started cracking down against VPN services by blocking their servers that allows users to access different region libraries from any country including American Netflix in Australia, Canada and UK.

This was the first time when users saw proxy blocking errors while trying to access their homeland Netflix library during travelling abroad. 

However, there are still some VPN providers that allows you to access Netflix or other popular streaming services from anywhere. To get the latest update about which VPN services are unblocking your favorite streaming services, visit ScreenBinge now.

6. Netflix lovers uses massive amount of streaming data 

In 2019, Netflix users streamed an average of 2 hours of video per day. Moreover, according to The Stack research, a Netflix users consumed 45 GB of streaming data on monthly basis. 

7. Globally Netflix users spent 140 million hours per day streaming their favorite content in 2017.

According to the findings, users of Netflix all around the world streamed 140 million hours per day of content. However, Netflix didn’t reveal the overall per day streaming data numbers but released stats about users streaming original content. 

8. More than 66% Netflix subscribers share their accounts passwords with their friends and family members.

About two-third of Netflix subscribers shares their accounts with their friends and family members. And on average every Netflix account use by 2.5 viewers. 

9. Ireland has the largest Netflix Library in 2020 

For decades, American Netflix consider as the best version globally as the largest content library than others. However, in 2020 now Netflix Ireland has the largest content library with over 5500 movies and TV shows as of April 2020.