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Scaling Global Storytelling: Modernizing Localization Analytics at Netflix

Netflix's Analytics Engineering community gathered for an Analytics Summit to share insights across the business. The core focus is on enhancing the localization process for a global audience of over 300 million members. This involves scaling dubbing and subtitling to meet the needs of diverse language preferences. Previously, localization metrics were fragmented, leading to inconsistencies and maintenance issues. Netflix is modernizing its analytics through consolidation, standardization, and trust. The first pillar involves auditing and consolidating dashboards and backend pipelines. The second pillar tackles "Not-So-Tech Debt" by improving user experience and reporting on unified metrics. The third pillar is investing in a write-once, read-many architecture by centralizing business logic. This approach creates unified tables, solving problems once and propagating updates instantly. The future involves event-level analytics, analyzing granular timed-text data like subtitle lines. The goal is to understand how subtitle characteristics impact member engagement and refine guidelines. Ultimately, this modernization effort aims to improve the Netflix experience for all members worldwide.