Netflix Comes Out On Top When Compared To Other Streaming Services
Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ have taken over the entertainment industry. All three streaming services provide users with a library of films and series including exclusive original content produced by each company.
Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and became popular after the company introduced its streaming services in 2007. In the past decade there have been several competing streaming services that have been launched including Hulu and Disney+, yet in the past year, Netflix has been searched for more than any other service in every state except Florida according to a Google Trends analysis.
Hulu and Disney+ were launched years after Netflix, the former in 2008 and the latter in 2019, and are both owned by The Walt Disney Company. Even though both services offer bundle deals to save users money, it can be seen on both graphs that for the last year, Netflix has remained the most popular streaming service in the United States.
Having been the most popular streaming service for years, Netflix was overshadowed for a short period after the launch of Disney+ on November 13th, 2019. Since that launch, the trends for the searches of either streaming service have been very similar with Disney+ staying at a close second for most searched.
Australian Bushfires Peak American Interest in Climate Change
The bushfires in Australia have been devastating for wildlife as the death toll is estimated to be at more than 500 million and hundreds of residents have been displaced and their homes destroyed.
Climate change has been been cited as a reason for the severity of the fires given the hot and dry conditions Australia dealt with prior to the fires.
The fires became international news with aid and support coming from around the globe. Americans took to Google to get news regarding the Australian fires as well as information on climate change according to a Google Trends analysis.
The graph illustrates the spikes in American Google searches for both climate change and the Australia fires for the past 7 days. Americans appear to be making the connections between both the fires and climate change statistics as more celebrities and influencers encourage their fans to inform themselves about the effects of climate change.
The map gives the public an idea of which states searched for one topic more than the other while also showing how close the interest over time was between the two. The boom in Google searches does not come long after the American President, Donald Trump, opposed environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, on the legitimacy of climate change.
Carolina Molina Data and Digital Journalism 