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REPORTABLE SEGMENTS (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Schedule of Revenues by Segment
The tables below present summarized financial information for each of the Company’s reportable segments (in millions).
Revenues
 Three Months Ended March 31,
20262025
Streaming$2,887 $2,656 
Studios3,125 2,314 
Global Linear Networks4,377 4,774 
Corporate— 
Inter-segment eliminations (1,497)(765)
Total revenues$8,893 $8,979 
Reconciliation of Revenues to Segment Adjusted EBITDA
Three months ended March 31, 2026
StreamingStudiosGlobal Linear Networks
Revenues$2,887 $3,125 $4,377 
Less:
Content expense (a)
1,531 1,603 1,592 
Personnel expense (b)
186 251 529 
Marketing expense285 275 129 
Other segment expenses (c)
447 221 493 
Segment Adjusted EBITDA$438 $775 $1,634 

Three months ended March 31, 2025
StreamingStudiosGlobal Linear Networks
Revenues$2,656 $2,314 $4,774 
Less:
Content expense (a)
1,504 1,339 1,832 
Personnel expense (b)
186 230 496 
Marketing expense220 252 104 
Other segment expenses (c)
407 234 549 
Segment Adjusted EBITDA$339 $259 $1,793 
(a) Content expense includes amortization, impairments, participations, residuals, development expense, and production costs, including talent costs, and is a component of costs of revenues. Content expense excludes content impairments and other development costs recorded in restructuring and other charges, amortization of purchase accounting fair value step-up for content, and amortization of capitalized interest for content as these items are excluded from the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA.
(b) Personnel expense is a component of costs of revenues and selling, general and administrative expense. Personnel expense includes marketing personnel compensation and excludes commissions (included in other segment expenses) and talent costs (included in content expense).
(c) Other segment expenses include distribution costs, other direct costs, software and hardware costs, IT services, professional and consulting fees, commissions, and certain other overhead costs. Other segment expenses exclude depreciation and amortization, amortization of purchase accounting fair value step-up for content, amortization of capitalized interest for content, employee share-based compensation, third-party transaction and integration costs, and other items impacting comparability as these items are excluded from the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA.
Schedule of Reconciliation of Segment Adjusted EBITDA to Loss Before Income Taxes
Reconciliation of segment adjusted EBITDA to loss before income taxes
 Three Months Ended March 31,
20262025
Streaming$438 $339 
Studios775 259 
Global Linear Networks1,634 1,793 
Segment Adjusted EBITDA2,847 2,391 
Depreciation and amortization1,226 1,547 
Employee share-based compensation150 120 
Restructuring and other charges204 54 
Netflix Termination Fee (See Note 1)
2,800 — 
Transaction and integration costs173 80 
Facility consolidation costs— 
Impairment and amortization of fair value step-up for content102 240 
Amortization of capitalized interest for content
Impairments and loss on dispositions14 90 
Corporate269 233 
Inter-segment eliminations 375 53 
Other expense (income), net38 (82)
Loss from equity investees, net
Loss on extinguishment of debt, net27 
Interest expense, net581 468 
Loss before income taxes$(3,120)$(434)