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Netflix reveals viewing data for its entire catalogue for the first time

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  1. [9]
    updawg
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    Everything with over 200,000,000 hours watched, in order: The Night Agent: Season 1 Ginny & Georgia: Season 2 The Glory: Season 1 // 더 글로리: 시즌 1 Wednesday: Season 1 Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton...

    Everything with over 200,000,000 hours watched, in order:

    The Night Agent: Season 1
    Ginny & Georgia: Season 2
    The Glory: Season 1 // 더 글로리: 시즌 1
    Wednesday: Season 1
    Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
    You: Season 4
    La Reina del Sur: Season 3
    Outer Banks: Season 3
    Ginny & Georgia: Season 1
    FUBAR: Season 1
    Manifest: Season 4
    Kaleidoscope: Limited Series
    Firefly Lane: Season 2
    The Mother
    Physical: 100: Season 1 // 피지컬: 100: 시즌 1
    Crash Course in Romance: Limited Series // 일타 스캔들: 리미티드 시리즈
    Love Is Blind: Season 4
    BEEF: Season 1
    The Diplomat: Season 1
    Luther: The Fallen Sun
    Fake Profile: Season 1 // Perfil falso: Temporada 1
    Vikings: Valhalla: Season 2
    Extraction 2
    XO, Kitty: Season 1

    I think it's interesting how many of these are not high-profile Netflix shows (at least in my opinion).

    30 votes
    1. [4]
      Notcoffeetable
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      Fascinating. I haven’t heard of a single one of these except “Wednesday” but only from seeing some online chat when it was released. Not a single person I know has mentioned it.

      Fascinating. I haven’t heard of a single one of these except “Wednesday” but only from seeing some online chat when it was released. Not a single person I know has mentioned it.

      17 votes
      1. vord
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        Wednesday was a perfectly competant teenage supernatural drama which would have better if they didn't try to force the Addams lore into it. But Thing was awesome. -- My wife whom has very strong...

        Wednesday was a perfectly competant teenage supernatural drama which would have better if they didn't try to force the Addams lore into it.

        But Thing was awesome.

        -- My wife whom has very strong opinions on Addams Family

        6 votes
      2. Deely
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        Will be interesting to have mark "cancelled" near each entry.

        Will be interesting to have mark "cancelled" near each entry.

        5 votes
      3. Tardigrade
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        I personally watched The Night Agent and it was recommended by others in my circles. It's not particularly high brow but it's enjoyable and predictable and good for a chill date night.

        I personally watched The Night Agent and it was recommended by others in my circles. It's not particularly high brow but it's enjoyable and predictable and good for a chill date night.

    2. lackofaname
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      The data seem to be for the past 6 months, so it's probably heavily skewed with what's new, not what's highest rated/acclaimed. At least personally, Ive been unimpressed by the New content over...

      I think it's interesting how many of these are not high-profile Netflix shows (at least in my opinion).

      The data seem to be for the past 6 months, so it's probably heavily skewed with what's new, not what's highest rated/acclaimed. At least personally, Ive been unimpressed by the New content over the last year or so.

      Netflix seems to be framing this as: Our new content is super popular with big fandoms. Maybe Im out of touch and it is, but to me, I see it as Our new stuff is new and people get bored by old.

      5 votes
    3. [2]
      honzabe
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      Interesting. There are only two I have heard of: Perfil falso and La Reina del Sur - both are telenovelas (I think the term in English is soap operas). This is going to sound snobbish, but if I...

      Interesting. There are only two I have heard of: Perfil falso and La Reina del Sur - both are telenovelas (I think the term in English is soap operas). This is going to sound snobbish, but if I made a spectrum based on, ehm, artistic value, with Citizen Kane on one side, these would be on the opposite side. Does anyone know any of the rest? Where would you put them?

      Please don't take this the wrong way - one of my favorite movies is Dude, where's my car, so...

      3 votes
      1. aetherious
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        From the shows I've watched, I'd rank them as: BEEF The Diplomat (personally, I liked this more but BEEF is an A24 production and certainly more artistic) Queen Charlotte You XO, Kitty Love is...

        From the shows I've watched, I'd rank them as:

        • BEEF
        • The Diplomat (personally, I liked this more but BEEF is an A24 production and certainly more artistic)
        • Queen Charlotte
        • You
        • XO, Kitty
        • Love is Blind (this might just qualify for the lowest out of all of them, it's terribly reality tv)
        5 votes
    4. lou
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      I hope some YouTuber watches all of those in order and makes a 3-hour video about it.

      I hope some YouTuber watches all of those in order and makes a 3-hour video about it.

  2. SloMoMonday
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    It really feels like the minimal effort and this data leaves so many more questions. I'm no stat nerd, but there's a weird feeling opening the file and seeing a single sheet labeled "ENGAGEMENT"...

    It really feels like the minimal effort and this data leaves so many more questions. I'm no stat nerd, but there's a weird feeling opening the file and seeing a single sheet labeled "ENGAGEMENT" with just watch-hours rounded to 100k as the metric. Like a comedy sketch where some executive walks on stage, says "Big number good. We make more big number.", and all the shareholders clap.

    I'm sure this data is part of the strike agreements so I'm curious how production teams will react to shows like 1899, Archive 81, Welcome to Eden, Shadow & Bone and Inside Job drawing big numbers and still being cancelled. There's also already canceled shows like GLOW, Midnight Gospel and Warrior Nun still bringing in viewers and that sort of flys in the face of their core metric "it is only successful if it's fully binged through days after release".

    Overall, streaming as it is now just makes less and less sense to me. I understand that companies want an ongoing revenue stream but just imagine the costs involved to host 90 billion hours of video on demand over 18k shows worldwide. With almost half a under 500k hours, what is the revenue to cost ratio? And there's just no diversification on Netflix's part too. I'd happily pay for a physical copy of some of their original shows (because I strongly suspect a lot of them will disappear soon) or would watch the next Knives Out in the movies.

    16 votes
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    1. vord
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      They didn't release numbers back when they had The Office because it woulda dwarfed these.

      They didn't release numbers back when they had The Office because it woulda dwarfed these.

      6 votes
  4. Eji1700
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    My general rule on these things is if it's not raw data it's not real data.

    My general rule on these things is if it's not raw data it's not real data.

    27 votes