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What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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What exactly is the value of this comment?

I guess the comment was more tongue in cheek wrt to Netflix and chill meme but tbh I have my tv running all day (though not just Netflix) just as background noise so ranking shows by number of hours watched may have lots of noise added to it.

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93,455,200,000 total hours viewed from January to June 2023. Some quick math says that at any give time, 1 out of every 400 people is actively watching Netflix.

Those stats only list shows that had over 50000 views, so depending on how long the tail is it could be much more

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#24

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

Stephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people.

It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference.

Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore.

Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because there’s no Current Thing any more, there’s a thousand of them.

The more we watch, the more isolated we become.

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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.

Have you never seen netflix' recommendations? That must tell you how much they care about customer facing data.

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post #5

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What exactly is the value of this comment?

It’s a critique of the name of their newly released statistics, which apparently assumes “what we watched” is equivalent to “what people watched on Netflix”, which may have been the state of things 5 years ago but isn’t the state of things at all anymore.

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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

In the top 50, I've see Night Agent (give it a 7), Luther (6-7), Extraction 2 (6).

I've heard good things about Beef, and maybe Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is novel because it's an 8 episode heist show that, in theory, can be watched in any order and be cogent. Arguably, this is one reason I have not watched it. Not a big fan of gimmicky things.

Of course there's also the bit of the "how can there be 18,000 shows and nothing to watch?"

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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.

This isn't a marketing effort, it's a press release for Hollywood insiders.

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#30
Kinda sad that Netflix opted for quantity over quality. It shows with all the inane sequels like Murder mystery 2, Extraction 2 and with the idea of just filling an uninteresting script with some stars to make the numbers like Red Notice. And many of the top 50 shows reflect just that. The last Netflix original I watched and liked was The Queen's Gambit.
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