Research: Canadians biggest consumers of true crime
April 1, 2025
Canadian audiences watched more true crime on Netflix than subscribers in any other country last year, according to research by Digital i.
Data first presented by media consultant Beatrice Rossmanith at Series Mania Forum shows that 60.7 per cent of Canadian Netflix subscribers watched at least 20 minutes of a true crime title in 2024.
Australia came in second place, with 56.5 per cent of Netflix subscribers there watching a true crime title, followed by Colombia, where the genre was watched by 54.5 per cent of subscribers in the same period. At the furthest end of the scale was Japan, where only 11.2 per cent of Netflix subscribers watched true crime in 2024.
The UK scripted series Baby Reindeer was the true crime title with the highest reach on Netflix last year, according to Digital i research, viewed by 70 million accounts across those countries.
The US scripted anthology series Monsters was in second place in 2024 with a reach of 61 million accounts, with the non-scripted American Nightmare in third position, reaching 53 million accounts.
On the purely non-scripted side, audience interest in Netflix true crime content has been growing steadily for years. Digital i data shows that six of the top 20 documentary titles (ranked by reach) were true crime docs in 2020, compared to 15 titles in 2024.
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