General View of Netflix Content

As we see from below graph there are more than 2 times more Movies than TV Shows on Netflix.

10 Most Occurring Cast Members

When we look at cast members, 6 out of 10 most occurring name are Indian names. Moreover 8 out of 10 most occurring names are from Asia. This may be a result of Netflix choosing more from Asian Movies and TV shows to list.

10 Most Occurring Cast Member
cast count
Anupam Kher 30
Om Puri 25
Takahiro Sakurai 24
Shah Rukh Khan 24
Boman Irani 23
Andrea Libman 22
Paresh Rawal 22
Yuki Kaji 22
Akshay Kumar 19
John Cleese 18

10 Most Occurring Directors

Contrary to the cast members, it is very obvious that US directors dominates the table.

10 Most Occurring Directors
Director count
Jan Suter 18
Raúl Campos 18
Jay Karas 14
Marcus Raboy 14
Jay Chapman 12
Martin Scorsese 9
Steven Spielberg 9
David Dhawan 8
Johnnie To 8
Lance Bangs 8

10 Most Occurring Countries

When we look at the content by the origin country, there is a clear domination by United States as well. Followed by India and United Kingdom, results are not surprising. Netflix is indexing more from the countries which produces and advertises more.

10 Most Occurring Countries
country count
United States 2302
India 807
United Kingdom 483
United States 308
Canada 206
Japan 183
France 147
South Korea 146
Spain 139
France 124

Content by the Release Year

More than 90% of the Netflix content are current productions. This may stem from different reasons. Netflix could be choosing from current and low copyright price content or stay up to date with current productions.

Distribution of Duration of Movies

Average duration of the movies indexed in Netflix is around 100 minutes.

Netflix Indexing by Year

Netflix can be considered as a new platform compared to the other digital media service providers. Most of the content in Netflix indexed after 2015 as expected. We can see the number of indexed content by year in the below graph. As observed in the graph, there is an uptrend in indexing more content in Netflix. A shorter bar for 2020 is not because of less number of content added to Netflix but the data set. The last entry in the data set is in mid January 2020. But still more than the number of new content added in 2015. Netflix indexed more new content in the first 18 days of 2020 than the ones indexed in the whole 2015.

ggplot(date_Added, aes(year_added, count)) +
  geom_bar(width=0.2, colour ="black", size= 0.8, fill = "navy blue", stat="identity") +
  labs(
      x="Year",
      y="Number of Content by Year",
      title="Netflix Content by Year Added") + theme(legend.title=element_blank(),
                                                    plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, vjust = 2))