The languages nobody built a business case for.
30 pairs are live today and 21 more are in training or queued, covering roughly 5.2 billion speakers. The list leans deliberately towards Africa and South Asia, because that is where the audience is and the catalogue isn't.
51 of 51 languages · speaker estimates include second-language speakers
- hi
Hindi
South Asia
610mLive
- es
Spanish
Americas
560mLive
- fr
French
Europe
310mLive
- bn
Bengali
South Asia
285mLive
- ar
Arabic
MENA
274mLive
- pt
Portuguese
Americas
264mLive
- ru
Russian
Europe
255mLive
- ur
Urdu
South Asia
230mLive
- sw
Swahili
Africa
200mLive· East African lingua franca
- id
Indonesian
SE Asia
200mLive
- pa
Punjabi
South Asia
150mLive
- de
German
Europe
135mLive
- ja
Japanese
East Asia
123mLive
- mr
Marathi
South Asia
99mLive
- te
Telugu
South Asia
96mLive
- tr
Turkish
MENA
90mLive
- ha
Hausa
Africa
88mLive
- ta
Tamil
South Asia
87mLive
- tl
Filipino
SE Asia
87mIn training
- vi
Vietnamese
SE Asia
86mLive
- ko
Korean
East Asia
82mLive
- it
Italian
Europe
67mLive
- gu
Gujarati
South Asia
62mLive
- th
Thai
SE Asia
61mLive
- am
Amharic
Africa
60mLive
- kn
Kannada
South Asia
59mIn training
- yo
Yoruba
Africa
47mLive· Tonal — pitch carried through cloning
- om
Oromo
Africa
45mIn training
- pl
Polish
Europe
41mLive
- ln
Lingala
Africa
40mIn training
- or
Odia
South Asia
39mIn training
- ff
Fula
Africa
37mQueued
- ml
Malayalam
South Asia
37mLive
- ne
Nepali
South Asia
32mIn training
- ig
Igbo
Africa
31mLive
- zu
Zulu
Africa
28mLive
- mg
Malagasy
Africa
25mQueued
- so
Somali
Africa
22mIn training
- si
Sinhala
South Asia
22mQueued
- xh
Xhosa
Africa
19mIn training
- af
Afrikaans
Africa
17mLive
- ak
Twi
Africa
17mIn training
- sn
Shona
Africa
15mQueued
- rw
Kinyarwanda
Africa
15mIn training
- bm
Bambara
Africa
15mQueued
- as
Assamese
South Asia
15mQueued
- tn
Tswana
Africa
14mQueued
- ny
Chichewa
Africa
14mQueued
- wo
Wolof
Africa
12mIn training
- lg
Luganda
Africa
11mQueued
- ti
Tigrinya
Africa
10mQueued
Why these pairs were never worth building.
A studio dub has a floor cost that barely moves with audience size: the same booth, the same cast, the same weeks. Localising a series into Yoruba costs roughly what it costs to localise it into German — but the licensing revenue behind it, today, doesn't clear that floor.
So the catalogue stops at a dozen languages, and hundreds of millions of people get subtitles or nothing. In markets with low reading rates or a strong dubbing preference, that means nothing.
When the floor cost falls by two orders of magnitude, the business case doesn't improve. It inverts. Long-tail languages become the highest-margin territory in the catalogue, because nobody else is competing for the ear.
Send us one episode.
We'll dub it into two languages of your choosing and send back the master, the stems and the conform report. If it isn't broadcast-ready, you owe us nothing.