The document discusses four popular Spanish web series available on streaming platforms: Money Heist, Vis a Vis, El Presidente, and Elite. It summarizes the plotlines and genres of each series and how they gained popularity worldwide through the use of captions and subtitles in multiple languages on Netflix and other services. Captions helped the non-native Spanish shows reach massive global audiences.

1. ● Series to watch out
Spanish Web Series with CC in the OTT

2. The Popularity of Web Series
Most of us today are engaged for long hours with web series. Most of the series telecasted today build
momentum, episode by episode, creating utmost curiosity among its viewers. Thus web series are
top-notch entertainers. A web series accommodates more information than movies, but they are split
into seasons and further split as episodes. Each episode is a short story. You are free to create a pause to
take a coffee break or open a new tab.
People worldwide access multilingual content with the help of captions. In almost all the web series
available today, closed captions have been enabled. The Spanish series have captions in Spanish for the
deaf and hard of hearing individuals, and non-native speakers, whereas subtitles are for foreign
language speakers. CaptioningStar is a professional service provider for all your video captioning needs.

3. Web series are gaining popularity
and are released in various
languages. Since Spanish speakers
make a third of our population, let’s
discuss a few Spanish series in this
article. No genre is left untouched,
from documentaries to dramas,
thrillers to horrors, and crime stories
to romance. Four web series of
different genres are our topic of
interest. These series are now being
aired on various OTT platforms.

5. Money Heist
This fascinating heist drama series revolves around a
central character, ‘The Professor,’ who, together with
some other people, pulls out a lifetime’s heist, one in
the Royal Mint of Spain and another in the Bank of
Spain. There is something familiar with all the
characters in this series, and it goes as follows,
‘Beware of someone who has nothing to lose.

6. Money Heist
This makes each of them strong. The plan is
made super strong by the foolproof execution
command provided by the professor. Of
course, with time, there pop many problems,
a natural outcome of people involved in the
crime when emotions start taking control of
them, which shakes the plan and puts
everyone’s interests and lives in danger. The
master behind the whole plot is put into a
tight spot where he makes intelligent moves
and amends the plan accordingly to keep the
project and the crew alive.

7. Money Heist
The breath-grasping series, which holds no certainty
for the next upcoming minute, was the
most-watched non-English series worldwide, with a
considerable chunk from Mediterranean Europe and
the Latin American world. The series was initially
streamed on Antena 3 – a Spanish terrestrial
network, in 2017. Netflix acquired the global
streaming rights of the series towards the end of
2017. After being on Netflix, the show garnered a
huge fan following, which has made Season 5 of the
series the most anticipated release of 2021.

8. Money Heist
Netflix stated that 65 million households checked out this
series. This considerable success was mainly attributed to
the availability of closed captions and subtitles in most of
the regional languages.
It received many awards; the notable ones include the
Best Drama Series at the 46th International Emmy Awards
and Iris awards for the best screenplay.

9. Vis A Vis
A Spanish title that translates to “Face to Face” was a
Spanish serial drama TV series produced by Globomedia.
Season 1 (2015) and Season 2 (2016) of the show were
premiered by Antena 3, a Spanish TV network, which then
decided to stop the production of the series. Fox Spain,
another Spanish TV network, picked up the production
rights of the series and telecasted Season 3 (2018) and
Season 4 (2019). In fact, it was the most-watched pay-TV
of its period. It was after this period that Netflix bought
the global streaming rights to the series.

10. Vis A Vis
The plot is all about a female character named Macarena
Ferreiro, who is convicted with a very high bail set for
fiscal offenses, which she commits for the love she has for
her boss. The hardships she faces with her inmates and
the face-off with the officers in prison are excellently
portrayed. Their day-to-day struggle in overcoming the
guilt of committing a crime and their efforts to handle it
creates curiosity. Meanwhile, their families strive to pull
them out on bail to set them free. The challenges they
face to get all this done is what the story revolves about.

11. Vis A Vis
The series gained a lot of followers immediately
after streaming it globally on a successful
platform, Netflix. Numerous in-field experts
throughout the world have appreciated its
storyline. You get a lot of followers and
subscribers when the content is understood.
Multilingual content is only accessible through
captions or voice-over. There lies the power of
captions.

12. Vis A Vis
It has received an international fan base and has pulled
many awards, including the Spanish Actors Union Awards,
for different categories in successive years. Captions and
subtitles played a significant role in making the series a
global hit. It went hand in hand with the unimaginable
production capabilities of the team, making it a success.

13. EL Presidente
The Chilean drama ‘El Presidente’ is based on a real-life
conspiracy. It’s about the 2015 ‘FIFA Gate corruption
scandal.’ The main character Sergio Jadue is the director
of a small-town soccer club in Chile. He unexpectedly
becomes the president of the Chilean National Soccer
Association. Along the way, he becomes the protege of
Julio Grandano, the president of the Argentina Football
Association, who was considered to be the godfather of
soccer at the time and also gains power among the
executives of CONMEBOL (South American Football
Confederation).

14. EL Presidente
This series covers the participation of Sergio Jadue with
his deputy Luis Bedoya in ultimately helping an FBI agent
Harris. They together reveal the conspiracy as part of the
US government's probe into global FIFA corruption. They
identify the money laundering and corruption towards
these CONMEBOL executives. The series has eight
episodes, and the Chilean Accent is used here. El
Presidente was released on Amazon Prime on June 5,
2020.

15. EL Presidente
Both closed captions and subtitles are available for this
series. Subtitles are made in more than 30 languages, and
this is also dubbed into 9+ languages. Its availability in
numerous languages has crow-pleading potential and
effortlessly drives more subscriptions. At CaptioningStar,
we provide captioning services to any OTT platform in
more than 150 languages to seamlessly increase your
viewers and subscriptions.

16. Elite
This wonderfully narrated teen thriller Spanish drama
revolves around the conflict which keeps arising now and
then when three working-class boys - named Samuel,
Nadia, and Christian and their wealthy classmates. The
three are provided with scholarships to join an elite
private school in Spain. The scholarship was provided by a
construction company that was obliged to do so for the
faulty construction of the school.

17. Elite
The Elite does take all shortcuts to keep the working-class
boys at bay to show them their superior wealth status. In
turn, the three boys keep resisting, which pushes each
side to take the extreme measure needed to safeguard
their own interests, leading to a murder.
The series was telecasted for the first time on Netflix in 2018,
with subsequent years telecasting Season 2, Season 3, and
Season 4. The following season is due for 2022. For three
successive years, from 2019 to 2021, the show has received
the GLAAD Media Awards for the Outstanding Scripted
Television Series (Spanish - language)

18. Elite
It had a huge fan base that just in a month’s time after the
release of Season 1, it was streamed by over 20 million
accounts. The quick worldwide success made Elite take
only 12 days to be renewed by Netflix for a second
season. This series had captions only in English and
European Spanish. Despite just two languages, it picked
up millions of viewers. TV Shows’ top 50 most followed
shows rated it as the second most followed
Spanish-language TV show. It was also dubbed in English.

19. Power of Captions and Subtitles
The above show is an example to illustrate the power of
closed captions and subtitles. Come to us with any
number of seasons and any number of episodes. Our
team would deliver you the most accurate captions and
subtitles. At CaptioningStar, we work round the clock and
get in touch with us at your convenience.
Do watch all these series with Captions for the best user
experience. Captions are definitely important for
hard-of-hearing people and subtitles for non-native speakers.

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