Ten years ago, streaming video broke like a tidal wave over New Zealand.
Global giant Netflix introduced its streaming service to Aotearoa in March 2015, and how we watch what we used to call just plain old “TV” has never quite been the same.
Netflix wasn’t the first streamer to hit NZ – Spark’s long-gone Lightbox launched in 2014, and Sky TV’s Neon in February 2015 – but it proved the tipping point for watching everything from Squid Game to Country Calendar on our phones, laptops and smart TVs.
