Streaming Services in Flux: Netflix's Battle and the Future of Viewing Metrics

David Pierce rejoins The Vergecast with Nilay Patel and Alex Cranz. The crew discuss Netflix losing subscribers for the first time in over a decade, CNN Plus shutting down only a month after it launched, and a whole lot more.

Verge editor Chris Welch joins the show to discuss Sonos' new budget soundbar that is set to release in June.

Relevant links:

• gone90.biz
• Netflix just lost subscribers for the first time in over a decade
• The writing may be on the wall for sharing Netflix accounts
• CNN Plus is shutting down only a month after it launched
• The Obamas are leaving Spotify for a new multiplatform podcast deal
• Spotify opens up video podcasting to everyone in the US and select markets
• Exclusive: this is the new budget soundbar from Sonos
• A year after LG left the smartphone business, Samsung is the big winner
• The latest leak of Google’s upcoming Pixel Watch shows off a familiar design
• Playdate review: all it’s cranked up to be 
• A camera battery with a USB-C port is a gadget whose time has come
• Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover
• Delta confirms ‘exploratory’ Starlink tests
• Tesla earned over $3 billion in profit in the first quarter
• California net neutrality law to remain intact after appeals court says it won’t reconsider earlier decision
• Instagram is begging you to stop reposting TikToks to Reels
• This firm made Republicans go viral — now it’s falling apart 
• Booming warehouse growth clashes with rural life in California’s Inland Empire
• Inside the pandemic’s PPE supply chain nightmare
• A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin

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