Netflix to Open Central and Eastern Europe Office in Poland

Netflix are increasing their European presence with a brand new workplace in Poland.

The workplace, which is ready to open within the nation’s capital of Warsaw later this yr, will operate as a central hub for Netflix’s Central and Jap Europe (CEE) productions.

“The Netflix workplace in Warsaw is a pure subsequent step for us and can assist construct long-term cooperation within the area in addition to deepen current ties, creating new alternatives for content material creators and producers,” stated Larry Tanz, Netflix EMEA’s vp of unique collection. “The creativity and potential of the native business make Warsaw an incredible place to base our enterprise throughout Central and Jap Europe.”

The brand new workplace is the end result of six years of funding in Poland, starting with the localization of Netflix’s service there in 2016. The corporate has additionally elevated the variety of native productions, spending round $115 million on movies and collection within the space and creating 2600 jobs on their productions.

Different Netflix titles, corresponding to “Extraction 2” and “Shadow & Bone” season 1 have additionally been shot in CEE, which has change into a strategic manufacturing hub for worldwide reveals.

Netflix has additionally snapped up Polish titles corresponding to collection “The Woods,” “Rojst ‘97” and “Sexify” and movies “No person Sleeps within the Woods Tonight” and “How I Fell in Love with a Gangster” for the platform in addition to licensing widespread native titles from neighboring international locations together with Czechia, Romania and Hungary amongst others.

Netflix already has European workplaces in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Istanbul, Stockholm and Warsaw.