 On April 22 , 2013 , Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced not to renew their existing deal with Viacom . Since then , Viacom 's deal with Netflix expired and removed its shows such as SpongeBob , and Dora the Explorer . However , SpongeBob is still available to stream on Netflix in Canada . On June 4 , 2013 , Viacom announced a multi @-@ year licensing agreement moving its programmings , such as SpongeBob and Dora the Explorer , to Amazon.com , Netflix 's top competitor . Amazon agreed to pay more than $ 200 million to Viacom for the license , its largest subscription streaming transaction ever . 
