Jul 19, 2022 / 10:00PM GMT
Spencer Wang - Netflix, Inc. - VP of Finance, Corporate Development & IR
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Netflix Q2 2022 Earnings Interview. I'm Spencer Wang, VP of IR and Corporate Development. Joining me today are Co-CEO, Reed Hastings; Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos; COO and Chief Product Officer, Greg Peters; and CFO, Spence Neumann. Our interviewer this quarter is Doug Anmuth from JPMorgan.
As a reminder, we'll be making forward-looking statements, and actual results may vary. With that, I'll turn it over to Doug now for his first question.
Questions and Answers:
Douglas Till Anmuth - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division - MDGreat. Thanks, Spencer. Great to see all of you, and thanks for having me host again today. So there's clearly a lot to talk about on advertising and new initiatives, but let's start with talking about recent trends. So you expected to lose about 2 million subscribers in the quarter, and you did a little bit better at a loss of 970,000. What drove the slightly better-than-expected results in