The birth of global internet TV

Forty-seven per cent of anglophones in Canada have a subscription to Netflix today. The global online-streaming service launched in Canada in 2011 as its first international market and has since grown to 190 countries. New players such as Shomi and Crave TV are also on the scene and influencing how Canadians consume television in a big way.
Since it launched in Canada in 2011, the company has been building to create it into a service that’s available globally, said Anne Marie Squeo, director of corporate communications at Netflix. “Canada was our first international, all-streaming market … and we’ve been building our service g...

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