Netflix may have gone global these days, but in most European countries, it is still a relatively new service. While Netflix came to the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia in 2012 and the Netherlands the following year, it was not until 2014 that it reached most central European countries and in southern Europe, you had to …
Netflix has struggled since it launched in Vietnam back in 2016. As of October last year, it had gained only 300,000 subscribers, a fraction of the country’s 96 million population. There are several possible reasons for this slow growth. One might be the preference of Vietnamese people to pay in cash rather than with credit …
Netflix launched in the Philippines back in 2016. Since then, it has made what can generously be described as modest inroads into the market. In 2018, it had an estimated 104,000 subscribers. This is predicted to triple in the next two years but is still a drop in the ocean in a country with a …
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It is four year’s since Netflix launched in Spain. In that time, they have risen to be the second-largest subscription-based TV provider in the country with an estimated 2.2 million subscribers by the end of last year. This represents steady growth, but in a country of more than 46 million people, they still have plenty …
Netflix has performed pretty well in Germany since it first launched there in 2014. In five years they have managed to accumulate more than 5 million subscribers. This means they have a bigger market share than Sky Deutschland, one of the biggest pay-per-view TV networks in the country. The number of subscribers continues to grow …
Since Netflix launched in Italy in 2015, it has built a credible subscriber base. Recent estimates suggest that there were as many as 1.5 million subscribers at the start of this year. That number is expected to rise to as many as 2 million by the end of 2019. But the truth is that they …
Netflix first launched in Thailand in 2016 but with a caveat. The service was not made available in the Thai language. As a result, subscriber numbers in a country of almost 70 million people have been modest. There will be an estimated 546,000 Thai Netflix subscribers by the end of this year, meaning Netflix still …
Netflix first arrived in Russia back in 2016 as part of its global expansion. Since then, they have garnered an extremely modest share of the audience in the face of both competition and pressure from the Russian government. In 2017, Russia passed a law limited foreign ownership of streaming services like Netflix to 20% if …
Since Netflix first launched in South Korea back in 2016, it has made slow but steady progress. There are currently an estimated 1.5 million subscribers, but in a country of more than 51 million people, there is scope for much more growth. This is especially true within South Korea’s sizable ex-pat population. This slow progress …
Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, with an estimated 264 million people making it a very attractive market for Netflix. However, since Netflix Indonesia launched they have made modest progress. Since launching in 2016, Netflix has only managed to secure an estimated 237,000 subscribers. While this is predicted to double each year …