18/03/2025 - The Bristol-based company has found that That Christmas, The Grinch, Inside Out, Arcane and The Simpsons were among the most-watched animated titles last year in Europe

UK-based media analytics company Digital i has exclusively shared with Cineuropa the statistics concerning animation streaming data for the past year. The data cover Netflix, Disney+, Max and Prime Video across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Poland between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024. The rankings are based on the percentage of subscriber accounts that watched the titles.

The top animated streaming movies of 2024 include seven Netflix and three Disney+ titles. The most-watched flick was That Christmas by Simon Otto, with an audience share of 22.6% and 16 million hours viewed, followed by The Grinch, directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney back in 2018, with an audience share of 19.1% and 18.7 million hours viewed. Both titles are on Netflix.

Hot on their heels, we find Pete Docter’s Inside Out on Disney+, with 14.6%; Despicable Me 3 (Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda) and Orion and the Dark, helmed by Sean Charmatz, both on Netflix, with 13.9% and 13.6%, respectively; and Kelsey Mann’s Inside Out 2 on Disney+. Closing the list are Sing: Thriller, a Netflix short film based on the successful 2016 feature and directed by Garth Jennings; Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie by Liza Johnson (Netflix); Spellbound by Vicky Jenson (Netflix); and Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s Frozen (Disney+).

The top animated series of 2024 show a predominance of Disney+, which owns 80% of the chart, including the top two most-watched series: The Simpsons (created by Matt Groening), with a 21.3% audience share (371 million hours viewed), and Joe Brumm’s creation Bluey, with 20.6% (177.8 million hours viewed). Netflix owns the third title in the top ten, Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, which racked up a 19.2% audience share. Disney+’s Family Guy (created by Seth MacFarlane) and Mike Jones’s Dream Productions, set in the world of Inside Out, follow in fourth and fifth place, while Prime Video’s sci-fi title Secret Level (from an idea by Tim Miller) comes in sixth in the chart, with 14.3%.

Titles seven to ten are all Disney+: Bluey Minisodes, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (created by Dave Filoni), Spidey and His Amazing Friends by Darren Bachynski and Mitch Stookey, and What If…?, a Marvel Studios product by AC Bradley.

Overall, a predominance of US titles is observable, as is a lack of titles coming from Max, HBO’s streaming service, in both top-ten lists.