Global interest in Netflix Inc’s Korean thriller Squid Game lured more new customers than expected in the recent quarter, boosting shares of the world’s largest streaming service by 3 percent on Tuesday.After a sharp slowdown in the first half of the year, Netflix added 4.38 million subscribers from July through September to reach a worldwide total of 213.6 million. Wall Street analysts had projected 3.86 million new customers, according to Refinitiv data.Netflix enjoyed a subscriber boom last year as COVID-19 kept audiences at home, but growth stalled in the first half of 2021. At the same time, competitors including Walt Disney Co’s Disney+ and AT&T Inc’s HBO Max have bolstered their offerings. Netflix partly blamed this year’s early weakness on a thin slate of new programming caused by production shutdowns during the pandemic.
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