Netflix recently unveiled its latest biannual report, detailing the most popular shows and movies from the latter half of 2024. One notable standout could shed light on why Apple TV+ has been heavily focusing on global, non-English content recently.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
One key highlight from the latest Netflix viewership report helps explain a recent Apple TV+ trend.
Per Netflix: “Nearly a third of all viewing on Netflix came from non-English shows and films”
That’s a pretty huge chunk of a really big Netflix viewership pie.
Additionally, three of Netflix’s 10 most viewed shows during the period were also non-English—headlined by Squid Game season 2.
Apple TV+, meanwhile, is a much smaller player at the moment, but it’s recently been ramping up non-English projects too.
Just since September, Apple TV+ has debuted:
• Berlin ER, a German hospital drama
• Love You to Death, a Spanish romantic comedy
• You Would Do It Too, a Spanish crime thriller
• Where’s Wanda?, a German dark comedy
• Midnight Family, a Spanish medical drama
• La Maison, a French fashion drama
MacDailyNews Take: of course, there’s also one Apple TV+ series which we’ve long recommended, the bilingual Spanish and English comedy Acapulco which debuted back on October 8, 2021 and landed another renewal last August. The award-winning series returns for fourth season later this year.
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We probably oughta be deporting all these foreign shows…