COVID-19: What Netflix is doing to help

Netflix has taken the following steps to help during the pandemic:

• As film sets and productions were shut down around the world, Netflix created a $100 million fund to support its casts and crew.
• Following a request from the European Union to a number of digital entertainment companies to ensure that networks were being used as efficiently as possible due to high demand, Netflix was able to reduce traffic by 25% by removing the highest bandwidth streams for each piece of content. Initially deployed in the worst-hit countries of Italy and Spain, the service has now been rolled out across Europe. It is also being deployed in countries where governments have issued ‘shelter in place’ orders, to help reduce the strain on ISPs.

To find out more about the efforts Netflix has made click here.