Back to News
Jan 19, 2026 12:00 PM

From NFL Games to Stranger Things, Netflix Just Had Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever — And It's About To Show Up In Earnings

Streaming giant Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is heading into its fourth-quarter earnings results on Tuesday with robust momentum following a record holiday season, marked by several hits across multiple categories.

Netflix Sets New Streaming Records

Christmas Day 2025 was a watershed moment for streaming, which captured 54% of all U.S. TV viewing and logged 55.1 billion minutes, the highest single-day total on record, according to Nielsen Data shared with Axios.

A bulk of this surge was driven by Netflix, with the platform streaming its first-ever Christmas Day NFL match, firmly pushing it into the sphere of large, diversified broadcasters that have dominated the media landscape over the past several decades.

Besides this, Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 for the week between Dec. 15 and 21, showed the platform’s hit series Stranger Things dominating the screen ...