Compare Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hotstar. Which is your favorite and why?

How I'd answer this product strategy question.

Clarifications:

1. Before I answer, I would like to know whether you want me to compare these 3 products as an end-user / consumer or as a product manager?

Interviewer response: As a product manager

2. Okay great. Do you want any specific area to be compared with among these 3? Such as content quality, monetization models, app features, etc?

Interviewer response: Please do a holistic comparison. If not, at least monetization models.

3. Sure. Let me try to cover all 3. Give me a moment to structure my thoughts.

Framework:

I will be following a 3 step process.

 - Compare the top 3 buckets (content quality, monetization models, app features)

 - Pros and Cons

 - My recommendation

Is that okay?

Interviewer response: That's fine.

Content quality:

 - Popular global content (NetFlix - 4/5, Hotstar 4/5, Prime 4/5)

 - Popular regional (india specific) content (NetFlix - 3/5, Hotstar 4/5, Prime 3/5)

 - Content categories (sports, movies, web series, news, etc) (NetFlix - 2/5, Hotstar 4/5, Prime 2/5)

 - Genres (Drama, Thriller, comedy, etc) (NetFlix - 4/5, Hotstar 4/5, Prime 4/5)

Clearly, the winner is Hotstar as it has better regional content as well as more content categories. 

Monetization models:

 - Ad-supported free content -  (NetFlix - No, Hotstar - Yes, Prime - No)

 - Subscription (monthly & yearly) -  (NetFlix - Yes, Hotstar - Yes, Prime - No)

 - Subscription (yearly only) - (NetFlix - No, Hotstar - No, Prime - Yes)

Since Hotstar offers free to access to most of its content (except premium), it's natural to have a high user base in a cost-conscious and regional content-driven country like India.

App Features:

 - Content discovery  - (NetFlix - 4/5, Hotstar 3/5, Prime 3/5)

 - Content Access  - (NetFlix - 4/5, Hotstar 4/5, Prime 4/5)

 - Streaming quality - (NetFlix - 4/5, Hotstar 3/5, Prime 4/5)

NetFlix is better in all aspects and hence the most likeable product. 

Recommendation:

Although NetFlix has better app features, I would rank Hotstar as my favorite app as a PM due to the content and monetization models.