Netflix’s Crackdown on Password Sharing Pays Off: Subscriptions Are Up

President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter Biden has been charged with failing to pay federal income tax and illegally possessing a weapon.

Jennifer Garner was the second famous Jen to wish Ben Affleck a happy Father’s Day on Sunday (June 18).

King Charles is celebrating Father’s Day 2023 with a sweet throwback photo featuring both of his sons.

Netflix is expanding the universe of its popular Spanish drama series Money Heist, otherwise known as La Casa De Papel.

Addie Morfoot Contributor When the American Film Institute announced last year that it was merging AFI Docs, the organization’s annual Washington, D.C., documentary film festival, into the Los Angeles-based AFI Fest, Jamie Shor called Sky Sitney.Shor, president of PR Collaborative, and Sitney, director of the film and media studies program at Georgetown, had both previously worked for AFI Docs. Shor’s publicity firm had done work for the former festival, previously known as Silverdocs, while Sitney served as AFI Docs festival director from 2005-2014.“Sky and I were both thinking to ourselves that Washington, D.C., was not going to have a doc presence,” says Shor.

Chris Hemsworth is one of the most bankable Hollywood stars. As he premieres his new Netflix movie, “Extraction 2,” Hemsworth has been on a press tour with stops all over the world, where he discussed his work and his career. Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth are helping Australia regain their Tasmanian DevilsChris Hemsworth’s kids didn’t like his new Thor movieChris Hemsworth talks about ‘beautiful’ relationship with Elsa PatakyA post shared by Chris Hemsworth (@chrishemsworth)In an interview with the Spanish newspaper “El Pais,” Hemsworth discussed his childhood, the types of movies he grew up watching, and his goals when he first started acting.

Naked Attraction’s Anna Richardson has spilled the beans to OK! about a possible celebrity spinoff of her hit Channel 4 show which regularly leaves viewers howling at the antics of its naked contestants.The 52-year-old presenter says she already has a handful of celebrities lined up - including a very famous boy band member - all willing to get their kit off in the Naked Attraction pods. Speaking exclusively to OK!, Anna revealed that she’s just biding her time and building her list before she pulls the trigger on a potential spin-off that could see some of our favourite celebrities bare all in the name of finding love.

Netflix’s resurgent stock rose another 3% through mid-day Tuesday, continuing to recoup losses from a major 2022 correction as several Wall Street analysts upgraded their outlook on the company.

Netflix have risen by over 100 per cent since the streaming service began cracking down on password sharing.Earlier this year, the streaming service announced details of its password crackdown, making it impossible to use one account in several locations.The rule then came into force last month, with Netflix receiving major backlash from existing subscribers.Since then though, Netflix has experienced a large rise in sign-ups, with the days between May 25-28 – shortly after the May 23 announcement – becoming the platform’s four biggest days of new sign-ups in the United States since 2019, as Variety report.On those days, 73,000 new users signed up for Netflix, a 102 per cent increase on the previous 60 days.In a statement posted by Netflix last month, they explained of the rule: “Starting today, we will be sending this email to members who are sharing Netflix outside their household in the United Kingdom.”The streaming giant said a Netflix account was “for use by one household” and those wanting to share theirs must pay £4.99 to do so.They continued to explain: “It’s why we continue to invest heavily in a wide variety of new films and TV programmes – so whatever your taste, mood or language and whoever you’re watching with, there’s always something satisfying to watch on Netflix.”Since the announcement of the account sharing fee, Netflix has begun receiving backlash. Unhappy customers took to social media to express their annoyance with the new rules that have been implemented.

Netflix just implemented its new password sharing rules over the past few months, cracking down on sharing one account for multiple households.

Netflix sign-ups have surged recently as the company prepares to crack down on password sharing, analytics firm Antenna said today in a first look at the impact of the streamer’s new policy.

Jennifer Aniston is showing off her grays! Last week, the alum sparked buzz when she posted a video promoting her latest LolaVie haircare product.In the clip, the 54-year-old actress peeks through a door as she promotes the product. Aniston puts her gray tresses front and center as she has her hair pushed back in a half-up, half-down style.Aniston's hair isn't completely gray, though, as it only seems limited to one section of the actress' signature brownish-blonde tresses.A post shared by Jennifer Aniston (@jenniferaniston)In the comments of the video — which has over eight million views — fans celebrated how the star is embracing her natural locks.«You are so beautiful with your gray hair,» one user wrote.«Jennifer you are so gorgeous with and without grey.

Spotify laid off some 6% of its 6,600-strong workforce.As the streaming platform gears up to scale down its internal operations, redundancies are now officially reaching 2% of its entire workforce — a staggering number considering how recent the investment took place.In a blog post on the streaming platform, Spotify’s head of podcast business Sahar Elhabashi wrote, “We are expanding our partnership efforts with leading podcasters from across the globe with a tailored approach optimized for each show and creator.”“This fundamental pivot from a more uniform proposition will allow us to support the creator community better,” Elhabashi continued.“However, doing so requires adapting … As a result, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to make a strategic realignment of our group and reduce our global podcast vertical and other functions by approximately 200 people, or 2% of Spotify’s workforce.”The cuts prove that the company is failing to see the results it had hoped for in the podcast arena — despite pumping billions of dollars into having Markle and Joe Rogan’s podcasts on its platform.However, Markle’s “Archetypes” podcast has struggled to remain at the top since its debut in August 2022 as by November, the podcast slid down to number 22 in the charts.For his part, Rogan’s podcast suffered a series of controversies ranging from Covid-19 vaccine misinformation to being accused of using racial slurs and making antisemitic comments.In 2021, it was reported that Meghan and Harry received a cool $25 million from Spotify for singing on the dotted line for a lucrative audio deal.More recently, Markle was honored at the 48th annual Gracie Awards where she picked up a gong for her podcast — though she was not

Federal prosecutors in New York yesterday asked a judge to issue an order allowing them to claim royalties due to R Kelly from Sony Music and Universal Music Publishing to pay off fines and restitution linked to his conviction in the US state.Kelly, of course, was found guilty in a New York court of establishing and running a criminal enterprise in order to sexually and physically abuse women and teenagers.It was the first of two convictions that stemmed from the criminal investigations launched after the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ documentary aired, it putting the abuse allegations that had surrounded the music star for decades back into the spotlight. The second conviction was in his home town of Chicago.In the New York case, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail and ordered to pay $480,000 in fines and restitution.

Robert De Niro candidly admitted that being a father at the age of 79 makes him have a "certain awareness."  De Niro is the proud father to newborn Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen, and discussed how he’s enjoying fatherhood at this later stage in his life. "It feels great. It feels great, yeah," he said during an appearance on "Today." "I have certain awareness," "The Godfather Part II" star confessed.  "When you’re older, you have awareness of certain things in life, dynamics.

Police say crackdowns on guns and the organised criminals who use them have led to a dramatic fall in the number of Greater Manchester shootings. Years on from the so-called 'Gunchester' era, the number of shootings had been on the rise again before the pandemic.

the Times UK has reported. On May 18, Carole, 68, and Michael, 73, sold their business to entrepreneur James Sinclair for roughly $223,000 (£180,000) — 36 years after launching the company.

Netflix has clamped down on password sharing across households, with subscribers in the UK noticing changes rolled out this week. Account holders received emails from the streaming giant reminding them that their account is for use by 'you and the people you live with.'

A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves.

Amazon Prime Video has been praised for 'dragging' rival Netflix following its crack down on password sharing. The American streaming giant has moved to stop multiple households using the same account, something which it previously encouraged.