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Sitting down to binge on a box set or get lost in the latest Hollywood hit movie has never been more effortless.
Gone are the daytimes of exploring the TV guide or heading out on a pilgrimage to Blockbuster. Today, audiences have to sit back, select their go-to streaming service, and gorge on the hours of entertainment available at their fingertips.
Streaming platforms have begun to hoard new and old content in a try to lure and keep subscribers. But as the competition amplifies between streaming platforms to keep viewers coming back for more, the essential for new and exclusive content becomes ever more apparent.
This has generated what many are calling The Golden Age of streaming. Streaming platforms are investing billions of dollars in creating new and original content that viewers can stream only through their service. Loki, Squid Game, or Whether Stranger Things, these epochal shows define the must-see nature of a streaming service’s original production.
With a host of hot fresh shows flying the flag for their platform, it got the team at SimpleGhar wondering, which are the most popular titles on each streaming service?
Netflix’s original series Squid Game proved to be the most popular TV show overall, topping search data in 126 nations.
Disney+’s Black Widow is the most searched-for film in 99 nations, proving Marvel’s worth.
CODA came up trumps for Apple TV+, as the most searched-for film in 71 countries.
All-action Amazon original, The Tomorrow War, is the most searched-for film in 61 countries.
Every Country’s Favorite Film on Each Streaming Service
Amazon
Despite an IMDb rating of 6.5/10 and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 51%, viewers worldwide can’t get enough of Amazon’s The Tomorrow War. Starring Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski, the film is one of the most expensive to debut on a streaming platform. Sixty-one nations searched for it on Google more than any other Prime original.
Most Popular Amazon Prime Films
Films
# of countries, the film is top in
The Tomorrow War
61
Cinderella
12
Without Remorse
6
Shershaah
5
Jai Bhim
5
Nocturne
2
Jolt
2
Borat Subsequent
1
Moviefilm
1
Nishabdham / Silence
1
Birds of Paradise
1
Coming 2 America
1
De Oost
1
Radioactive
1
Sarpatta Parambarai
1
Apple TV
Conceived as a remake of the French-language film La Famille Belier, AppleTV’s CODA is a favorite in all but nine countries, according to our research. Despite mixed reviews from critics initially, it won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 2022, and streaming spiked substantially following its Oscar nomination.
Most Popular Apple TV Films
Films
# of countries, the film is top in
CODA
71
Palmer
3
Finch
2
Cherry
2
On the Rocks
1
Wolfwakers
1
Disney+
Marvel and Disney combined to make Black Widow one of the most profitable films of 2021, with earnings of $379 million. 1.1m American households streamed it on Disney+ in its opening weekend. With Scarlett Johansson taking critical acclaim for her role as the title protagonist, Black Widow was a favorite in 99 nations.
Most Popular Disney+ Films
Films
# of countries, the film is top in
Black Widow
99
Cruella
22
Luca
6
Raya and the Last Dragon
1
Netflix
Netflix assembled a star-studded cast for Don’t Look Up, which became the platform’s second-most streamed film of all time in 2021. Forty-two countries searched for it on Google more than anything else on Netflix, with 25 preferring Red Notice. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, it surpassed Don t Look Up as both the most expensive and most viewed film on the service.
Most Popular Netflix Films
Films
# of countries, the film is top in
Don’t Look Up
42
Red Notice
25
Through My Window
17
Army of the Dead
11
Minnal Murali
5
A Whisker Away
1
Dhamaka
1
Friendzone
1
Haseen Dillruba
1
Jagame Thandhiram
1
Love and Leashes
1
Paper Lives
1
Resort to Love
1
The Power of the Dog
1
Tigertail
1
To the Bone
1
Every Country’s Favorite Series on Each Streaming Service
Amazon
Amazon Prime fans can’t get enough of the breakout superhero series Invincible. Based on a long-running comic book series of the same name, fans favor the TV adaptation in 62 nations. Invincible follows the coming-of-age story of superhero Mark Grayson and has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Most Popular Amazon Prime TV Series
Series
# of countries, the series is top in
Invincible
62
The Wheel of Time
13
The Boys
7
Mirzapur
4
Bibi & Tina
3
Maradona: Blessed Dream
1
Apple TV
Ted Lasso will go down as one of AppleTV’s most successful shows – becoming the most-watched program on the platform in 2021. Jason Sudeikis’ portrayal of an excitable American soccer coach branching out into English football is favored in 46 nations. Dystopian sci-fi drama See is preferred in 40 countries.
Most Popular Apple TV Series
Series
# of countries, the series is top in
Ted Lasso
46
See
40
Pachinko
7
Dickinson
1
Disney+
Loki needed his own TV series, and Disney+ delivered. Tom Hiddleston’s portrayal of the god of mischief is legendary in the Marvel Comics Universe, and the series took Disney+’s popularity to new heights in 2021. Fans in 101 nations search for it more on Google than anything else on this platform.
Most Popular Disney+ TV Series
Series
# of countries, the series is top in
Loki
101
The Mandalorian
6
WandaVision
5
Hawkeye
1
Netflix
South Korean survival drama Squid Game took global entertainment by storm in 2021, becoming the most-watched TV program in 94 nations and drawing in 111 million viewers worldwide. Our research shows that fans in 126 countries searched for it on Google more than any other Netflix show.
Most Popular Netflix TV Series
Series
# of countries, the series is top in
Squid Game
126
Elite
3
Bridgerton
3
Stranger Things
1
Emily in Paris
1
Ginny & Georgia
1
Light the Night
1
The Umbrella Academy
1
Methodology
To create these tables, the SimpleGhar team first pulled together lists of all Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney+, and Netflix originals from Wikipedia, excluding upcoming shows and movies, as well as reality shows, documentaries, stand-ups, and podcasts. Co-productions and continuations were also discounted.
Then they translated titles into multiple languages using Wikipedia interlanguage links.
Finally, the team used the Ahrefs tool to isolate the film with the highest number of monthly searches in each nation. They dropped the entries with fewer than 1,000 monthly searches.
The SimpleGhar team also revised the data for searches where the term could be considered too generic or unrelated. For instance, the query “greyhound” was replaced by “greyhound movie” since the original one can also refer to the bus company or dog breed.
