Netflix, Inc. is a California-based streaming service and production company founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. It offers a vast collection of movies, TV shows, and documentaries through distribution deals and original productions known as Netflix Originals. The company has a global presence with subscribers in over 190 countries.
This dataset contains the information about the movies and TV shows added to Netflix during 2008 to 2021. There are a total of 8807 number of Movies and TV Shows listed in the dataset. The original dataset can be found in Kaggle.
The dataset has been transformed using pandas to divide some of its columns, and then expand them into individual rows to facilitate analysis in Tableau.
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It's interesting to note that Netflix has released almost twice as many movies as TV shows. Over a period of 67 years, Netflix has released a total of 3,735 movies and 1,955 TV shows(till 2022). It suggests that Netflix has placed a greater emphasis on producing and releasing movies compared to TV shows. This may be influenced by factors such as the availability of content and the preferences of Netflix's audience.
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US, India and Canada are the countries that produce the most movies and shows.
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As per the dataset, the highest release of Movies is in 2019 with 1424 of titles and 595 of TV shows in 2020. There is an increase in film released and it peaked in 2019, then it declined probably because of COVID 19.
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Netflix has classified its titles into different age certifications. The majority of titles fall under TV-MA ratings followed by TV-14, indicating that Netflix's content is primarily targeted towards mature audiences above 17 years of age. Therefore, it can be inferred that the customer segment that is most suitable for Netflix's content is individuals who are 14 years and older.
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Most of the movie titles are of genre either International movies or drama while TV shows are either categorised into drama or International shows.
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The highest number of titles involved Anupam Kher as an actor followed by Shahrukh Khan.
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Rajiv Chilaka became the director who directed the most films with 22 titles.
