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Consumption of kids’ content surges as adults spend more time with kids courtesy of work-from-home during the pandemic. The pandemic has inadvertently made many adults rediscover and actively consume kids content like animation shows, rhymes and games. About 60% of Netflix’s members around the world chose to watch kids and family content every month last year, a spokesperson for the video-streaming site told USA Today in March.
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 09, 2021)“My friends laugh at me when I tell them I’m now hooked to kids’ shows.”
Amit Shah, a nutritionist from Mumbai, did not see this coming.
Kids shows cast a spell on thousands of adult viewers
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Consumption of kids’ content on OTT platforms such as Netflix surges as adults spend more time with kids courtesy of work-from-home during the pandemic.
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Amit Shah, a nutritionist from Mumbai, did not see this coming.
When the Covid-19 outbreak put a stop to his extensive work travel last year, Shah got to spend some quality time with his 11-year-old daughter for the first time. “But that also meant she was always around, even when we were watching TV. She had just started exploring Netflix and we wanted to curate the right content for her age.”