How Streaming Has ‘Opened the Floodgates’ for Spanish-Language Content

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The streaming era has “opened up the floodgates,” one Spanish-language producer tells TheWrap

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"Elite" (Netflix)

In the streaming era, the appetite for Spanish-language shows and films has been driven by the most unlikely of consumers — those who can’t speak a single palabra of Spanish.

Until recently, Spanish-language content has been exclusively the domain of Hispanic-focused broadcast networks like Univision and Telemundo. But streaming has broken the foreign language barrier, and Spanish-language is finding out how lucrative that can be.

Netflix’s Top 10 list has been littered with Spanish-language shows like Spain’s “Money Heist,” and Mexico’s “Who Killed Sara?” Globally, “Money Heist” has spent the most time among Netflix originals in the Top 10 list.

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