Spanish works on subscription video-on-demand services: availability and prominence. 2025 Edition Books uri icon

place of publication

  • GETAFE

publication date

  • 2025

isbn

  • 978-84-10132-18-4

series title / series number

  • Disponibilidad y prominencia de obra española en servicios audiovisuales por suscripción

abstract

  • This report analyses the presence of Spanish works in six subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services in the Spanish market. The report focuses, in order of their arrival in Spain, on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Apple TV+, Disney+ and SkyShowtime. In addition to the presence of Spanish works, it examines the main mechanisms used to give them prominence in the services. The availability of Spanish titles has been increasing since 2022, when this annual report began. The main conclusion of this 2025 study is that all services include Spanish works in their respective catalogues, although the quantity and characteristics of these works vary considerably. Altogether, the six catalogues offer 1,802 unique Spanish titles, including international co-productions. The figure implies an increase of 211 works compared to January 2024. Prime
    Video, with 1,032 titles, is the service with the largest amount of Spanish content, followed by Netflix, which offers 674 Spanish works. When these data are compared to the total size of each catalogue, SkyShowtime is the service having the highest percentage of local works, with Spanish titles accounting for 15.8% of its catalogue. Prime Video is close behind, with 15% of its catalogue made up of Spanish titles. On Netflix and Max this percentage is around 8%, while on Disney+ and Apple TV+ they represent less than 3% in each case. The consolidation of certain trends identified in the SVOD market segment regarding the content offered and the way it is marketed, make analysing the services’ interfaces increasingly complex. In this scenario, the services examined here use different mechanisms to give prominence to the Spanish works available in their catalogues. With the exception of Apple TV+, all of them have sections dedicated to Spanish works. Likewise, the search engines of each service vary in the number and type of works they return when keywords related to local works are entered, with Netflix providing the greatest possibility of finding Spanish films, series and other types of content.

subjects

  • Information Science