New Delhi: Series and movies from India clocked over 1 billion views on Netflix in 2023, the streaming service said on Friday in its second engagement report. The report, titled “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report”, presented the streaming service’s viewership data from July to December 2023. Subscribers worldwide watched about 90 billion hours of content on Netflix in the second half of 2023, PTI reported.
Globally, non-English shows and movies are very popular with Netflix subscribers, making up nearly a third of all viewing, according to the report. This includes Korean (with 9 per cent of viewing), Spanish (7 per cent) and Japanese (5 per cent) language stories captured the biggest share of viewing outside of English. The report highlighted stand-out titles like “Dear Child” (53 million views) from Germany, “Forgotten Love” (43 million views) from Poland, “Pact of Silence” (21 million views) from Mexico, “Mask Girl” (19 million views) from Korea, “Yu Yu Hakusho” (17 million views) from Japan and “Berlin” (11 million views) from Spain.
The most-watched movie title on Netflix was “Leave the World Behind”, starring Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts, generating 121 million views, followed by Adam Sandler’s animated film “Leo” (96 million views). From the series side, the anime-inspired live-action series “One Piece” attracted 72 million views. The report also highlighted that fan favourite original titles “Wednesday”, “R.
