Netflix Now Has 139 Million Subscribers and Says It Competes With ‘Fortnite More Than HBO’

Streaming service estimates it commands 10% of all U.S. TV screen time

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It will now be even tougher for the four big streaming services scheduled to debut in the next year—from Disney, AT&T, Apple and NBCUniversal—to catch up with Netflix.

The streaming giant now has 139 million subscribers worldwide, 58.5 million of which are U.S. subscribers, it said today in a shareholders letter. That’s up from 110 million a year ago.

Netflix estimates it commands 10 percent of all U.S. TV screen time. The company serves an average of 100 million hours a day to U.S.

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