American media services provider Netflix is to open a base in Rome within the next year, it has been confirmed. The news comes several months after the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, announced that the media giant was planning to open a base in Italy.

The new Netflix base in Rome, whose location has not been released yet, will employ up to 30 people involved in marketing, public relations and production. The news was first reported in the city's daily newspaper Il Messaggero which quoted Kelly Luegenbiehl, the vice president of international originals at Netflix.