Netflix’s original content will double by the end of 2016

I hope you like Netflix’s original content, because the company intends to double the number of shows it has next year. Yesterday morning, Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos announced that his company will have released 31 of its own shows by the end of 2016, and revealed that it’s also working on 10 stand-up specials, 12 documentaries, and 30 children’s shows. That’s a lot of new content, but Sarandos made sure to clarify that it’s all high-quality stuff, and claimed that one of the biggest reasons the company started releasing original content in the first place was because it didn’t want to have to deal with the headache of securing streaming licenses for third-party content.