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Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows

posted by janrinok on Friday July 17 2015, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

Netflix has recently added Spanish-language shows on its service in the US. And the company says American subscribers are loving it.

"We've licensed a lot of programming from Latin America into the US, and are getting incredible viewing," Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a call with shareholders today. "Shows that are successful for us in Mexico are now drawing huge numbers for us in the US."

Netflix has been able to reach a new demographic of users in the US, Sarandos says, by offering shows that originate in Latin America—and can assess what kinds of other content these users might find interesting. "We're getting hundreds of thousands of hours a day on single shows," Sarandos adds.

I started watching a Mexican program to keep up with my kids who are in dual-language kindergarten at school. Regrettably the plot advances at the snail's pace of all soap operas. Can any Soylentils recommend Spanish language shows on Netflix for our crowd?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:49AM (#210712)

    This. You can't go to Germany or Spain or France and expect to live there as a citizen in normal society without learning the local language. You can't go live in Mexico without learning Spanish.

    Immigrant populations that are economically and socially successful in the US learn English quickly. You won't find many Vietnamese immigrants or Cubans or Chinese who can't hold a rudimentary conversation with you in English. Hell, Rubio is a second generation Cuban and is running for President.

    Then you have the Mexicans. Not all of them, but a major chunk. No English.