Selected Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands |
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Dec. 31, 2016 |
Sep. 30, 2016 |
Jun. 30, 2016 |
Mar. 31, 2016 |
Dec. 31, 2015 |
Sep. 30, 2015 |
Jun. 30, 2015 |
Mar. 31, 2015 |
Dec. 31, 2016 |
Dec. 31, 2015 |
Dec. 31, 2014 |
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| Quarterly Financial Information Disclosure [Abstract] | |||||||||||
| Total revenue | $ 392,598 | $ 351,901 | $ 343,022 | $ 297,305 | $ 336,157 | $ 311,562 | $ 285,560 | $ 230,764 | $ 1,384,826 | $ 1,164,043 | $ 920,802 |
| Cost of revenue | |||||||||||
| Cost of revenue—Content acquisition costs | 212,122 | 174,334 | 176,633 | 171,264 | 142,933 | 211,272 | 130,134 | 126,023 | 734,353 | 610,362 | 446,377 |
| Cost of revenue—Other | 29,901 | 25,556 | 24,833 | 20,999 | 22,168 | 21,414 | 20,043 | 16,233 | 101,289 | 79,858 | 61,627 |
| Cost of revenue—Ticketing service | 14,057 | 15,318 | 15,259 | 14,646 | 7,121 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59,280 | 7,121 | 0 |
| Total cost of revenue | 256,080 | 215,208 | 216,725 | 206,909 | 172,222 | 232,686 | 150,177 | 142,256 | 894,922 | 697,341 | 508,004 |
| Gross profit | 136,518 | 136,693 | 126,297 | 90,396 | 163,935 | 78,876 | 135,383 | 88,508 | 489,904 | 466,702 | 412,798 |
| Operating expenses | |||||||||||
| Product development | 38,325 | 33,657 | 33,808 | 35,846 | 28,115 | 21,849 | 18,742 | 15,875 | 141,636 | 84,581 | 53,153 |
| Sales and marketing | 133,546 | 116,475 | 123,812 | 117,622 | 112,574 | 107,286 | 94,035 | 84,274 | 491,455 | 398,169 | 277,330 |
| General and administrative | 46,946 | 41,768 | 40,562 | 46,296 | 42,774 | 35,603 | 38,812 | 36,754 | 175,572 | 153,943 | 112,443 |
| Total operating expenses | 218,817 | 191,900 | 198,182 | 199,764 | 183,463 | 164,738 | 151,589 | 136,903 | 808,663 | 636,693 | 442,926 |
| Loss from operations | (82,299) | (55,207) | (71,885) | (109,368) | (19,528) | (85,862) | (16,206) | (48,395) | (318,759) | (169,991) | (30,128) |
| Net loss | $ (90,009) | $ (61,534) | $ (76,333) | $ (115,102) | $ (19,409) | $ (85,930) | $ (16,065) | $ (48,257) | $ (342,978) | $ (169,661) | $ (30,406) |
| Net loss per share, basic (in dollars per share) | $ (0.38) | $ (0.27) | $ (0.33) | $ (0.51) | $ (0.09) | $ (0.40) | $ (0.08) | $ (0.23) | |||
| Net loss per share, diluted (in dollars per share) | $ (0.38) | $ (0.27) | $ (0.33) | $ (0.51) | $ (0.09) | $ (0.40) | $ (0.08) | $ (0.23) | |||
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