Netflix shares are headed for their steepest weekly drop since April amid a Musk-led boycott campaign.. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) shares slid nearly 5% this week, marking their steepest decline since April 4, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk intensified his campaign urging consumers to cancel subscriptions to the streaming giant.

The drop comes in sharp contrast to the broader market, which gained about 2% to fresh record highs, and also trails Big Tech peers like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Meta (NASDAQ: META).

Musk Urges #CancelNetflix

Musk, who has more than 227 million followers on X (formerly Twitter), accused Netflix of promoting transgender content in children’s programming. “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,” he posted earlier this week, while sharing a series of messages criticizing the streamer.

Netflix has not issued a comment in response to the boycott calls.

Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2025

Earnings Ahead

The boycott comes just weeks before Netflix’s third quarter earnings report. Analysts note that while the company no longer discloses subscriber figures quarterly, the near-term financial impact of cancellations could be difficult to measure.

In its latest earnings release, Netflix topped Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year revenue outlook. The company guided for Q3 revenue of $11.53 billion and EPS of $6.87, both above consensus. For 2025, revenue is projected between $44.8 billion and $45.2 billion, boosted by strong adoption of its ad-supported tier, favorable foreign exchange trends, and steady user engagement.

Executives expect advertising revenue to double to $3 billion in 2026, supported by popular returning shows like “Stranger Things”, “Wednesday”, and “Squid Game”, alongside growing investment in live sports streaming.

Not the First Backlash

Netflix has faced public boycotts before. In 2020, the release of the French film “Cuties” sparked bipartisan criticism, with cancellation rates briefly surging fivefold. However, the company ultimately saw little long-term damage.

Analysts Remain Bullish

Despite recent volatility, many analysts remain optimistic. Oppenheimer’s Jason Helfstein reiterated an Outperform rating and a $1,425 price target, citing strong Q3 engagement data, with viewing hours up 20% year-over-year, as well as momentum in live programming and original content.

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On practically all social media platforms, live streaming is one of the most popular features. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even YouTube allow you to go live and broadcast your content in its original form. According to recent reports, Netflix is working on a live streaming capability to broadcast its next slate of unscripted shows and stand-up specials.

The project is still in the early stages of development, according to Netflix. This capability will also be available for its unscripted shows and comedy specials in the near future. Netflix can also use this functionality to allow live voting for competition series and talent challenges, such as Dance 100, a new dance competition series from The Circle producer Studio Lambert.

Unfortunately, no information regarding the feature’s availability is provided. Because the feature is still in development, you might see it before the end of the year.

It’s also common knowledge that the corporation lost roughly 200k users in the previous quarter. Revenue growth has also slowed significantly, according to the corporation. To compensate for this loss, the company is attempting to implement more demanding features in order to increase user engagement.

In late 2022, Netflix plans to create a lower-cost ad-supported tier. Netflix also stated that the planned improvements will be “rapid and ambitious,” and that some “trade-offs” may be necessary.

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Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service, issued a warning to its subscribers on Tuesday, stating that a global crackdown on password sharing is coming their way. This might put a stop to the popular practise of accessing the platform using the login credentials of a family member or acquaintance.

The platform admitted its problems in growing its subscriber base in a letter to shareholders posted accompanying its quarterly results, and recorded a rare decline in overall user subscriptions, from 221.8 million in Q4 2021 to 221.6 million in the first quarter of this year.

In the letter, Netflix stated:

When combined with competition, our relatively high home penetration—especially when considering the vast number of households sharing accounts—creates revenue growth hurdles.

Netflix estimates that over 100 million households across the world utilise shared passwords to access its content, including over 30 million of these households in the United States and Canada. The estimate was released at the same time as the firm announced efforts to improve the monetization of multi-household sharing. The platform’s user count in the United States and Canada fell from 75.2 million in Q4 2021 to 74.5 million in Q1 2022.

The company’s decision to turn a blind eye to password sharing for all these years, according to the quarterly shareholder’s letter, certainly fostered the video-streaming service’s growth. The corporation now demands that the account holders who supply the freeloaders pay for the service they are consuming.

It intends to find a compromise between permitting sharing and helping generate income from everyone who has been seeing and getting value from its service by charging members who are sharing their accounts to pay more. This isn’t the only method Netflix intends to profit from its growing customer base. The company also said that it intends to launch an ad-supported plan.

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The Best Romantic Movies on Netflix

The Princess Bride

It is a classic movie that features “TRUE LOVE never gets OLD.

Moonrise Kingdom

It features teenage love, where two lovers run away from New England Town and then teams are made to search them.

Under the Tuscan Sun

The movie features a divorced woman who is all set to find love.

Bridget Jones’ Diary

Featuring Renee Zellweger as a Brit in the lead the movie is all about finding love.

Grosse Pointe Blank

Young love can be dangerous and when especially when it comes to high school crushes they can give you goose bumps. The movie features John Cusack in the lead he is behind his high school crush.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

It s a movie that has witness a great praise. McConaughey and Kate Hudson definitely have a steamy chemistry.

Clueless

What happens when the young girl played by Alicia Silverstone falls helplessly for her step-brother?

Serendipity

For some it is about distance, complications, and problems but actually it is all about love.

Love Actually

The movie features different stages of love. Christmas is the high time for love.

Can’t Buy Me Love

Events take place when a high school nerd pays $1000 to the beautiful school haughty to become his girlfriend just to show off.

Shakespeare in Love

The great story teller has a story if his own. Interesting! He runs into a girl and falls in love.

Sing Street

Girls love music and this is what Conor played by Ferdia Walsh-Peelo thinks.

Amelie

Do good, have good. Same happens with the young girl in the movie.

Beginners

Oliver is going through some major family problems, when he comes across a woman and falls in live with her.

The Duke of Burgundy

Evelyn and Cynthia are bonded in a unique relationship where chain of events takes place.

Your Sister’s Sister

Alcohol can lead to love but with your girlfriend’s sister? You need to find it out yourself what happens when Jack spends night with Iris’ sister Hannah.

Medicine for Melancholy

Very few fall in love after one night stands but the movie features this unique relation and thus chain of events leads to sex and eventually love.

Upstream Color

Two broken people can make a great couple. The movie features the same. You won’t be able to look away from the couple.

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Apple wants to remain on top and does not want any other tech company to replace its position in any category.

According to the buzz Apple is planning to have a TV original series.

It has planned to buy TB scripts from producers of famous television series. It does not want to remain traditional and wants to broadcast something that will become famous in the years to come.

The things like Stranger Things or West world are on Apples mind.

Carpool Karaoke is the part of content Apple wants tk broadcast. The show features the host traveling with guests while singing their favorite songs. The bundle will consist of Apple TV series and Apple’s Music App. This will cost $9.99 per month.

Planet of Apps is the first TV reality show that Apple wants to buy. The show features app developers. The host for the show will be Will.i.am. Will.i.am is the  famous rapper and tech enthusiast.

With the launch of Original TV Shows surely Netflix and Amazon will face biggest competition.

At the moment the two are the giant streaming companies with the introduction of Original TV Shows there popularity can decrease to a whole new level.

According to the stats the Apple Music App has 20 million paid subscribers with a competition to 40 million paid subscribers of Spotify. The decision of Apple will help Apple ti stand out the competition.

In the history of Apple for the very first time lately the Apple is facing a downfall. The decision is to remain on the top and standout any competition with other mobile companies and apps.

The company has already put forward an order of ten episodes of Carpool Karaoke. That is another thing that no proper date is given for the premier.

Apple is  the biggest and successful company serving billions of people. The fact is that Netflix and Amazon need to watch out as the  competition is going to rise.

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Online Streaming Service iFlix has been finally launched in Pakistan. It perhaps was the most awaited event of 2017 from the day when last year in March the authorities had hinted about its launch in Pakistan. Later the news was confirmed in September 2016.

To provide a better service and a wider range of content iFlix has contacted the top studios around the world. About 150 studios have become partners of the newly introduced service in Pakistan. These studios include Paramount, Fox, CBS, Warner Bros and Disney.

The company received good funding from MGM this shows that it has been running with great success in targeted market. Moreover its success has been elaborated by its rapid growth in South Asia.

iFlix is a Kuala Lumpur based online streaming service. The company has compared it self not to the Netflix but Spotify. The reason for this is that Netflix offers streaming for some specific regions but iFlix has claimed that it is going to provide the streaming from all over the world irrespective of regions and boundaries.

iFlix Pakistan

Recently the service has been officially launched in Pakistan. Pakistanis now can subscribe to iFlix and enjoy the streaming. To subscribe people only need to visit  the website and sign up. After signing up they can view the content.

The webpage of the iFlix tells that now Pakistanis will be able to watch many TB shows. There are thousands of shows of many categories that include amazing TV shows, life time drama serials, movies of all kind and much more. The streaming will also be done from the countries including US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and more. One thing that needs to be added is that the local dramas are also going to be the part of the catalog.

Streaming Features

Users can avail this service on five of their devices. Subscribers access content by smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs, laptops or TV sets.

The content can be shared on two separate devices on the same time. It also provides offline service through which they can download and watch the video later.

Subscription

As the service is new, Online Streaming Service iFlix is providing one month of free access. There are no obligations of credit or debit card payment. The trial period of month is free if you don’t like the account will be deleted after period of 30 days. If you will like it than you will have to pay from second month of subscription.

The cost is reasonable and it is just as same as the standard fee of cable. It costs you only Rs. 300/- only.

If you want to subscribe sign up here.

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Netflix now launches Pakistani Drama Series. It’s just been sometime that Netflix was introduced in Pakistan. It is an app sharing videos worldwide. First the movies were launched and now Dramas too are the part of Netflix.

It chose three Pakistani Dramas to launch all by HUM TV according to trends and ratings set by the dramas. Director Momina Durraid wrote on Facebook: “Netflix California portal picks and launches its first ever Pakistani drama serials Humsafar, Zindagi Gulzaar hay and Sadqay Tumhare. Big milestone for Pakistan digital industry! Congratulations Team Humsafar, Team Zindagi Gulzaar Hai and Team Sadqay Tumharay”.

Humsafar

Humsafar was originally a novel written by Farhat Ishtiaq which was changed into a drama under direction of Sarmad Khosat. It went on air on HUM TV from 24th September 2011 to 3rdMarch 2012. The drama was a mesmerizing combination of suspense, romance and drama.

 Zindagi Gulzaar Hai

Zindagi Gulzaar Hai was based on novel of Momina Durraid, who was also the producer and the directions were given by Sultana Siddiqui. It was also aired on HUM TV from 30th November 2012 to May 2013. The drama should a strong lady character who deals with the problems in the beat possible way.

Sadqe Tumhare

Another drama that too was aired on HUM TV is Sadqe Tumhare. The drama was based on the life of the writer Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar. It was a romantic love story where the couple had to face many difficulties to be together.

Pakistani Dramas are recognized one if the best dramas in the industries because of their story and close to reality acting. It is a great achievement for all the directors, actors and crews. Congratulations.

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There are very less companies for whom customer satisfaction is more important than any profit and this telecommunication operator continues to achieve customer satisfaction. As a result, they have collaborated with Netflix to provide high quality streaming content to its users in Pakistan.

Netflix is the leading internet television network in the world. And one of the best things about Netflix is that you can watch movies, documentaries, original series, featured films and a lot more without commercials that saves time. Netflix has more than 86 million countries in as many as 190 countries. Users enjoy over 125 million hours of TV shows and movies on daily basis.

PTCL has become the first telecommunication operator in Pakistan to ink a collaboration agreement with Netflix for the Pakistan market.

Under the agreement, Netflix that has just come into partnership with PTCL recently will extend its services in Pakistan. In addition, both PTCL and Netflix will look to utilize their individual resources for mutual benefit besides maximizing and augmenting the viewing experience of the public. This is one of the important agreements of this year that has aimed to provide customers for non-stop entertainment. So gird up your loin to be entertained fully as the contract between the two companies will benefit the users in Pakistan in many ways. It will also serve as a way forward to provide digital content in the country with the streaming of Netflix. It is worth mentioning that PTCL will promote and encourage original firsthand Netflix content in Pakistan.

Here there is one thing to remember that since Netflix’s global launch earlier this year, PTCL becomes the only service provider for the young Netflix, in the country with progressive caching servers and technical pairing. This will have a serious impact in terms of superior viewing experience.

People associated with this agreement could not resist talking about it to the media.

Vice President Business Development for Asia at Netflix, Tony Zameczkowski said,

“We are excited to partner with PTCL in Pakistan and are looking forward to providing high quality entertainment content for the Pakistani consumers”

PTCL’s Chief Commercial Officer, Adnan Shahid also commented on the agreement and  said:

“Digital entertainment is PTCL’s key priority and our partnership with Netflix is another step in this direction. We look forward to working with Netflix to offer new and exciting services including world class Netflix original series and movies in Pakistan”

So everyone wait for the services and enjoy.

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