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Mapped: The Most Popular Video Streaming Service by Country
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 Service | Top in Number of Countries |
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Netflix | 78 |
Canal Plus | 17 |
Shahid | 16 |
Showmax | 15 |
Amazon Prime | 5 |
KinoPoisk | 5 |
iFlix | 4 |
GO3 | 3 |
ivi TV | 3 |
Tencent Video | 2 |
Globoplay | 1 |
BluTV | 1 |
Disney+ | 1 |
Viu | 1 |
WatchIT | 1 |
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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Technology
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.

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 Name | Mensa Norway IQ Test Score |
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OpenAI o3 | 135 |
Claude-4 Sonnet | 127 |
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp. | 126 |
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp. | 124 |
OpenAI o4 mini | 122 |
Claude-4 Opus | 120 |
Grok-3 Think | 112 |
DeepSeek R1 | 106 |
Llama 4 Maverick | 105 |
OpenAI o1 Pro | 102 |
DeepSeek V3 | 100 |
GPT4.5 Preview | 99 |
Grok-3 | 97 |
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp. (Vision) | 96 |
GPT-4o | 93 |
OpenAI o4 mini high | 92 |
Claude-3.7 (Vision) | 91 |
Bing Copilot | 86 |
Mistral | 85 |
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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