By In recent years, streamer Netflix has generally reported on its audience numbers in two ways – its weekly Top 10 charts, and its occasionally publicised metric as to how well a show has done in its first four weeks.
However, plenty of people don’t get around to series until many weeks if not months later – isn’t their viewing as important?
Turns out it is as the streamer has released “What We Watched,” a new report spanning 18,000 titles (both original and licensed), 99% of all viewing on Netflix, and nearly 100 billion hours viewed in total.
The report spans the January-June 2023 period and the company says they plan to publish this Engagement Report twice a year from now on.
“The Night Agent” was the biggest success story of the period, snagging 812.1 million hours viewed followed by the second season of “Ginny and Georgia” (665.1M), “The Glory” (622.8M) and “Wednesday” (507.7M).
Of course, the nature of the report means shows that premiered early in the period have a distinct advantage over those that did so before – like “Wednesday” which hit late November 2022 – or titles starting in May or June like “FUBAR” (266.2M).
Fantasy drama “Shadow and Bone” (192.9M) was the most watched English-language scripted series from that period to get cancelled, coming in 25th despite a mid-March start.
The Jennifer Lopez-led “The Mother” was the top perfoming film with 249.9 million hours viewed, followed by “Luther: The Fallen Sun” (209.7M) and “Extraction 2” (201.8M) though the latter only had two weeks to rack up its views.
Head over to Netflix.com for the full report.
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