Netflix, Amazon and other streamers spent a record $414m on Australian content last year
Fresh data from the media regulator shows investment in Australian film and TV reached a record high as the government moves ahead with local content quotas.
The world’s biggest streaming platforms ramped up their investment in Australian content by about $73 million last year, delivering the largest total windfall to the local screen industry since records began.
Fresh annual data compiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) shows Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Nine Entertainment’s Stan and Paramount+ spent nearly $414 million on Australian content in the 2024-25 financial year.
The figure, which is contained in a report seen by Capital Brief and set for public release on Wednesday, accounts for 4,500 programs commissioned, co-commissioned or acquired by the five major platforms.
By genre, the platforms spent $309.7 million on adult drama content, up more than $100 million on the year prior, and $3.3 million on children’s programming, flat on the previous year.
