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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?
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @11:23PM
Back in the 80's some colleagues of mine were at an international conference in Paris. A group of them went out to dinner. One of them was from Quebec and, of course, was fluent in French. The group let him do the ordering. He spoke to the waiter in French (Canadian) and the waiter responded back in English.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:00AM
Perhaps the waiter heard that all the table spoke English and thought it would more efficient and polite to speak English so that no one would have to interpret everything and the other members of the group could understand that they could directly talk to him.
Ah, but no, it’s easier to assume the waiter was an asshole. He was French, that’s proof enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @01:54AM
Well, I'll go with what my friend and colleague, the one who was actually in the fucking conversation with the waiter over the course of a several hour meal, as to what the demeanor of the waiter was. Plus, it wasn't a table of all native English speakers. I think even a dumbass like you would agree those assumptions are a lot fucking easier than going off the assumption made from some asshole Francophile on the internet.