 On April 22 , 2013 , Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced their intentions not to renew their existing deal with Viacom . Since then , Viacom 's deal with Netflix expired , and shows such as SpongeBob and Dora the Explorer were removed . On June 4 , 2013 , Viacom announced a multi @-@ year licensing agreement which would move its programs , 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 . 
