General Entertainment Netflix Finally Allows a Peek Into Viewership Numbers (for the first half of 2023)

[SoberChef]

Netflix Takes Big Data Transparency Step, Releasing Viewing Numbers for 18,000 Titles

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'The Night Agent' and season two of 'Ginny & Georgia' were the most watched shows in the first half of 2023.

 

[Greatoneshere]

Yeah, this has been making the rounds and unsurprisingly, the average person watches trash. I'm wondering if them doing this is a result of the negotiations during the strikes, a lot of interesting data in there. Some good shows listed but man as usual people watch mediocre crap.

[Keyser_Soze]

Just look a the top ten on the app every day and yeah, no transparency needed. It's junk.

[SoberChef]

Honestly wish I could just see the numbers a lot of my favorite comedians are having with their specials.

[TwinIon]

I know that viewer hours is what matters to Netflix, but it's not a number that normal people really understand, so I wanted to figure out how many people actually watched these shows. If you do what Netflix does for it's weekly top 10 and just take hours viewed divided by the runtime, that works out to ~88M viewers for The Night Agent, 76M for Wednesday, and 60M for Beef.

 

Then again, most people don't really finish shows all the way through, so you could probably increase those numbers by 50% or more to get an idea of how many people watched a good portion of the show.