Netflix's very good week — strong earnings, rising stock and a blockbuster deal with the WWE — cemented its victory in the streaming wars, Axios' Sam Baker writes.

📺 The big picture: Netflix's combination of original content and reruns has been the backbone of its success so far, and now it's positioning itself aggressively for a new phase that relies more heavily on live broadcasts.

• Every major streamer has produced some hit original shows. But unlike many of its competitors, Netflix also has continued to spend big on a library of licensed content — giving subscribers a reason not to cancel even when there's no new marquee title to watch.

👀 "Netflix has the reputation of being a service for browsers — the place to go when you don't necessarily know what you want to watch," The Ringer wrote recently.

• Netflix subscribers watched 800 million hours last year of the original show "The Night Agent." They also watched 600 million hours of "Suits," which premiered during the Obama administration.

🏈 What's next: Live sports — mainly football — is still the biggest thing that happens on any screen, and some of Netflix's competitors, mainly Amazon and Peacock, have made more aggressive moves to claim a piece of that action.

• But Netflix got closer this week with its deal to stream WWE's "Raw." It's a way to cement livestreaming as a core feature of the platform and a property that's at least adjacent to real sports.

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📲 Got an upcoming doctor's appointment? Perhaps a prescription to refill or a dental cleaning? Odds are your phone has been pinging away with incessant reminders about it.

• "There's definitely a lot of information overload going on," Jon Freedman, a digital strategist with health care consulting firm Chartis, told Axios' Tina Reed.

🦾 What we're watching: AI tools may be able to help better target these communications if they can sort out which patients actually need the extra prodding and which are simply getting annoyed.

1. 📈 The economy grew at a surprisingly strong 3.3% rate in the last quarter of 2023, Axios' Courtenay Brown reports.
2. ⚖️ Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena, Axios' Jacob Knutson reports.
3. Alabama is set to carry out the U.S.' first execution using nitrogen gas, AP reports.

There's so much to coordinate when planning a wedding — the venue, the caterer, the DJ ... the falconer.

• Couples are bringing in birds of prey to act as their ring bearers, The Wall Street Journal reports in an A-hed column.

🦅 For about $1,200 (plus travel costs), professional handlers will send a raptor, eagle or other trained bird down the aisle, where it will need to land on someone — usually the bride or groom. The rings are attached to the bird's ankle.

• Some falconers told the Journal they advise couples not to use their actual rings, in case the bird flies away.