According to foreign media reports, at this year’s Code Conference, Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos shared important data about some of the top-level works of the streaming media giant-for a company that is traditionally secretive about numbers. A rare move.
In a slide shared by Sarandos and Kara Swisher on the Code stage, Netflix shared figures on how many accounts have watched its top ten movies and TV series, based on the first 28 days of being on Netflix Calculated by the number of accounts that have watched the title for at least two minutes.
Among them, the first season of “Bridgerton” was watched with 82 million accounts and ranked first in the TV series, followed by the first part of “Lupin” and “The Witcher”, each with 76 million accounts. Watched them. “Extraction” ranked first in the movie list with 99 million users, followed by “Bird Box” with 89 million accounts, “Spenser Confidential” 》There are 85 million accounts to watch.
The second slide ranks Netflix’s top 10 movies and series, based on their total viewing time in the first 28 days of the service. “Bridgetown” still tops the series with 625 million hours of viewing time. The fourth “Money Heist” followed closely with 619 million hours, followed by the third season of “Stranger Things” with 582 million hours of viewing time. “Blindfolded Your Eyes” topped its list of most popular movies with 282 million hours of viewing time. “Ultimate Rescue” jumped to second place with 231 million hours of viewing time, while “The Irishman” ranked third with 215 million hours of viewing time.
Sarandos said: “We are trying to be more transparent to the market, talent and everyone. This is a big black box for everyone.”
The decision to share this number was made at a critical moment for creative people and talent in streaming media. In the fast-changing entertainment world, this problem has become a frustrating problem, and even the highly anticipated movies will go directly to streaming services – or make their debut as a hybrid version.
But these figures also show that there are many ways to define “hot”. Netflix’s data is tracked by the total time spent watching and the length of time viewers watched a movie during the first month of service. However, creators and production companies may be more interested in the number of times a work has been viewed from beginning to end or how many people—not just accounts—are watching their show. In the final analysis, if there is no unified service standard to measure these success indicators, streaming media is still largely in accordance with their own rules.
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