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# Ben Thompson: Netflix may start selling rival streaming services
- URL: https://fabric-media.ghost.io/ben-thompson-netflix-may-start-selling-rival-streaming-services/
- Published: 2026-08-26T18:20:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T21:35:46.000Z
- Description: Stratechery’s Ben Thompson reports Netflix is weighing selling rival streaming services through its own platform, recasting itself as an aggregator. Smart move, he says — and a retreat from what Netflix set out to be.
- Author: Fabric.Media Editorial
- Tags: Streaming, Ben Thompson

**Why it matters.** If Netflix becomes a storefront for rival services, it gains a new gatekeeper role over subscriber access that smaller streamers will need to negotiate through.

*Signal from* [*stratechery.com*](https://stratechery.com/?ref=fabric-media.ghost.io) *·* [*Ben Thompson*](https://fabric-media.ghost.io/tag/by-ben-thompson/) *·* [*read the original*](https://stratechery.com/2026/netflix-to-sell-streaming-services-streamers-as-aggregators-revisiting-roku/?ref=fabric-media.ghost.io)*.*