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Mapped: The Most Popular Video Streaming Service by Country

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The graphic highlights the streaming services with the highest subscribers in every nation.

Mapped: The Most Popular Video Streaming Service by Country

In recent years, video streaming has become an integral part of global entertainment. From Netflix and Amazon Prime to HBO Max and Apple TV, consumers today have many choices when it comes to streaming services.

While some prefer services with their favorite shows and movies, others opt for the most affordable or content-packed options. Often, users band together friends and family and subscribe to multiple streaming services, though some services like Netflix have started to clamp down on the practice.

This graphic by theWORLDMAPS uses data from FlixPatrol to highlight the streaming services with the most subscriptions by country in February 2023.

Most Subscribed Streaming Services in 2023

With the highest number of subscribers in 78 countries and over 220 million customers globally, Netflix was the most popular video streaming service in the most countries.

Streaming ServiceTop in Number of Countries
Netflix78
Canal Plus17
Shahid16
Showmax15
Amazon Prime5
KinoPoisk5
iFlix4
GO33
ivi TV3
Tencent Video2
Globoplay1
BluTV1
Disney+1
Viu1
WatchIT1

In many countries including the UK, Brazil, Germany, France, and Mexico, Netflix had the most subscribers of any service. That’s more than delivery subscription and streaming service Amazon Prime and its 200 million global subscribers.

Because of its large userbase, however, Prime can claim more subscribers than Netflix in five countries: Afghanistan, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S..

Other streaming services found success catering to specific regions. The French premium television channel Canal Plus had the highest subscriber count in 17 francophone countries across Central and West Africa. Likewise, the Arabic free video streaming service Shahid topped the list of 16 countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen.

And despite having over 160 million global subscribers, Disney+ only made it to the top of India‘s subscriber base. Likewise, Tencent Video was the most-subscribed platform in China with 124 million customers.

Honorable Mentions and Turning Tides

Only 11 video streaming channels made it to the top of the 134 countries tracked by this data.

And while many others did not make the cut, they continue to attract millions of subscribers worldwide.

They include the Chinese platform iQIYI with 106 million subscribers, as well as four American streaming services: HBO Max (79.9M), Hulu (48M), Paramount+ (46M), and Apple TV (40M).

But with both Netflix and Disney+ wrestling with slowing (and declining) subscriber growth, how will the map evolve over the next few years?

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Ranked: The Smartest AI Models, by IQ

Some of the smartest AI models are already surpassing human intelligence, with one model falling in the “genius” category of IQ.

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This infographic compares 24 leading AI models by their performance on the Mensa Norway IQ test, highlighting the world's smartest AI models.

Ranked: The Smartest AI Models, by IQ

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Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the smartest AI of them all?

Artificial intelligence is designed to be intelligent. But how do today’s leading AI models stack up in human IQ terms, and which ones are the smartest?

This infographic ranks the smartest AI models based on their performance on the Mensa Norway IQ test, with data compiled by Tracking AI. The Mensa test is a widely recognized and highly difficult IQ exam used to evaluate human intelligence.

For context, the average human IQ score ranges from 90 to 110, while a score above 130 is typically considered genius-level.

AI with Genius-Level IQ

Topping the chart is OpenAI’s text-only o3 model, scoring a 135 on the Mensa IQ test, which puts it in the “genius” category. As a part of ChatGPT, it’s also among the world’s most popular AI tools.

Model NameMensa Norway IQ Test Score
OpenAI o3135
Claude-4 Sonnet127
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp.126
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp.124
OpenAI o4 mini122
Claude-4 Opus120
Grok-3 Think112
DeepSeek R1106
Llama 4 Maverick105
OpenAI o1 Pro102
DeepSeek V3100
GPT4.5 Preview99
Grok-397
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp. (Vision)96
GPT-4o93
OpenAI o4 mini high92
Claude-3.7 (Vision)91
Bing Copilot86
Mistral85
OpenAI o1 Pro (Vision)83
OpenAI o3 (Vision)72
Llama-3.2 (Vision)70
GPT-4o (Vision)63
Grok-3 Think (Vision)60

Anthropic’s Claude-4 Sonnet and Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking follow closely with IQ scores of 127 and 126, respectively. Furthermore, new iterations like the Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI o4 mini both scored over 120, above the average human IQ range.

Overall, these high scores prove that leading AI models are now operating at high levels of intelligence, with some even surpassing the smartest human minds.

However, what’s more surprising is that all of the top 10 smartest AI models are text-only models that cannot read or process images.

The IQ Contrast Between Text and Vision AI Models

Based on IQ scores, it seems like reasoning through words is still a much stronger suit for AI than interpreting and solving visual images and puzzles.

The bottom five AI models by IQ scores are all multimodal models with the ability to read and process images. In particular, OpenAI’s GPT-4o (Vision) and xAI’s Grok-3 Think (Vision) landed far below the human average, scoring 63 and 60 on the test, respectively.

Still, the results are telling: AI isn’t just mirroring human intelligence, it’s even outscoring us in certain areas of cognition and reasoning.

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