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What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by terminous »

drexlspivey wrote: post #4

I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50

The obvious question: do you watch a lot of TV shows on Netflix? Because these are all [edit: not all, but mostly] Netflix originals/exclusives.

I ask because as a Netflix user, these titles are constantly being pushed to me when I open up the app.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by kranke155 »

ferrumfist wrote: post #8
drexlspivey wrote: post #4

I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50

"Beef" was pretty great, I'd recommend that. I'm surprised to see no mention of "The Witcher", though, I figured that would've ranked relatively highly despite the many creative shortcomings of the show.

Witcher S1 is at row 171

Witcher S2 at row 233

Witcher S3 at row 556

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Post by drexlspivey »

terminous wrote: post #11
drexlspivey wrote: post #4

I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50

The obvious question: do you watch a lot of TV shows on Netflix? Because these are all [edit: not all, but mostly] Netflix originals/exclusives. I ask because as a Netflix user, these titles are constantly being pushed to me when I open up the app.

Not anymore but even If I haven't watched it I'll probably hear about it from friends/online/twitter etc if it's any good.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by kranke155 »

jval43 wrote: post #7

With all their employees and machine learning people Netflix couldn't find a single data scientist to present this in a nicer way? All we get is an Excel sheet dump with a huge list, not even grouped by series? Not to mention regions, languages, genres, some graphs, etc. I'm a bit surprised to be honest.

I wonder if this data dump is a consequence of the recent SAG and WGA agreements. A large part of their fight was about Netflix opening up the numbers. I was under the impression that it was to be done privately, but maybe they have to release this publicly and a lot more data privately to the Guilds.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by shadowtree »

kranke155 wrote: post #10
shadowtree wrote: post #6

My god is this power law driven, just put that into a graph! Top show has twice the view count of show number 8. Would love to map that against budgets and sub numbers - without ads the viewcounts matter zilch.

Sub numbers? How would you exactly relate sub numbers vs shows? Try and graph how many people only watched 1 show, or watched that show right after joining?

Basically answer two questions:

1 - How much minimal time does a consumer watch Netflix to re-subscribe? 2 - How much content spend is necessary to achieve that minimal viewing time?

Everything else is waste and lost margin.

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Post by adamiscool8 »

jval43 wrote: post #7

With all their employees and machine learning people Netflix couldn't find a single data scientist to present this in a nicer way? All we get is an Excel sheet dump with a huge list, not even grouped by series? Not to mention regions, languages, genres, some graphs, etc. I'm a bit surprised to be honest.

Funny, I was going to comment how refreshing it is to see a raw Excel data dump instead of insights tortured to whatever agenda by a data science team. Regions and genres would be nice though.

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Post by technothrasher »

drexlspivey wrote: post #4

I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50

I've heard of plenty of them, but only watched a few, and only watched maybe two of them more than once. But I watch weird back catalog documentaries and such that I wouldn't expect to be crowd pleasers.
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