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An important aspect of being "successful" is the local viewing habits. At least in India, cricket is one of the biggest elements of TV viewership and the second

An important aspect of being "successful" is the local viewing habits. At least in India, cricket is one of the biggest elements of TV viewership and the second biggest element is the cheaply produced poorly written run of the mill TV novellas that last 30 years and 1000+ episodes. Neither of which Netflix has or necessarily wants on it's platform. But if you ignore those two, Netflix comes out ahead on everything: Movies, international content, well produced TV shows etc.

vagrantJin 3y ago
I havr to disagree on the "poorly written telenovellas" bit. Indian telenovellas (also dubbed Turkish telenovellas for some reason) are big business in South Africa in part because we have a pretty large "indian" population and the stories are culturally relatable to Africans unsurprisingly: evil Mother-in-law and sister-in-law battle with resilient wife, clever wife managing a falling household, struggles with pregnancy, etc...theres a market there that locally priduced content cannot fill due to the local industry being thoroughly underfunded.
- tiznow 3y ago
  I can say outright that the Indian and Korean media is as popular as anything else in many patches of Africa.
- jansommer 3y ago
  Sounds like a lot of Marc Cherry's tv shows (Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids, Why Women Kill). That kind of stuff is excellent tv! Too bad it's not big business in the west.
- andsoitis 3y ago
  > big business in South Africa in part because we have a pretty large "indian" population No need to put in quotes. South Africa has an Indian population of around 1.6m. Durban is one of the largest Indian-populated cities outside of India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans
  - huytersd 3y ago
    The quotes are because can they really be called Indian if they have been there for 4+ generations or are they just South Africans. The whites there are not Dutch. The Central Africans that came a few generations ago are not Congolese etc.
    - latency-guy2 3y ago
      It can go either way, really. No one's opinions matter here unless its the majority. When that is determined, that is what they are. Not even the people in question can declare it for themselves. I would argue you are more your lineage than your nationality. See how we track various groups migration across the world, thousands of miles, thousands of years, with no problem. But at the same time, I don't consider myself very aligned with my own lineage, and I describe myself as 100% "American". But, given enough time, if my bones were to be put on display a few hundred years from now, with all written record of me being lost, I would probably be referred to as something a bit different than what I declare as myself.
      - huytersd 3y ago
        If you’re American you’re probably a mix of races or at the very least a mutt of several European ethnicities. You are different.
bagels 3y ago
Every time I search for a movie on netflix, they don't have it. I unsubscribed.
- geodel 3y ago
  On Netflix there are x no of movies classified across certain categories, viewers choose from them and watch. Deciding on a movie and searching on Netflix will almost never work.

vagrantJin 3y ago

I havr to disagree on the "poorly written telenovellas" bit. Indian telenovellas (also dubbed Turkish telenovellas for some reason) are big business in South Africa in part because we have a pretty large "indian" population and the stories are culturally relatable to Africans unsurprisingly: evil Mother-in-law and sister-in-law battle with resilient wife, clever wife managing a falling household, struggles with pregnancy, etc...theres a market there that locally priduced content cannot fill due to the local industry being thoroughly underfunded.

tiznow 3y ago
I can say outright that the Indian and Korean media is as popular as anything else in many patches of Africa.
jansommer 3y ago
Sounds like a lot of Marc Cherry's tv shows (Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids, Why Women Kill). That kind of stuff is excellent tv! Too bad it's not big business in the west.
andsoitis 3y ago
> big business in South Africa in part because we have a pretty large "indian" population No need to put in quotes. South Africa has an Indian population of around 1.6m. Durban is one of the largest Indian-populated cities outside of India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans
- huytersd 3y ago
  The quotes are because can they really be called Indian if they have been there for 4+ generations or are they just South Africans. The whites there are not Dutch. The Central Africans that came a few generations ago are not Congolese etc.
  - latency-guy2 3y ago
    It can go either way, really. No one's opinions matter here unless its the majority. When that is determined, that is what they are. Not even the people in question can declare it for themselves. I would argue you are more your lineage than your nationality. See how we track various groups migration across the world, thousands of miles, thousands of years, with no problem. But at the same time, I don't consider myself very aligned with my own lineage, and I describe myself as 100% "American". But, given enough time, if my bones were to be put on display a few hundred years from now, with all written record of me being lost, I would probably be referred to as something a bit different than what I declare as myself.
    - huytersd 3y ago
      If you’re American you’re probably a mix of races or at the very least a mutt of several European ethnicities. You are different.

bagels 3y ago

Every time I search for a movie on netflix, they don't have it. I unsubscribed.

geodel 3y ago
On Netflix there are x no of movies classified across certain categories, viewers choose from them and watch. Deciding on a movie and searching on Netflix will almost never work.