Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

about.netflix.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 354 posts

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#31

Post by jay_kyburz »

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.

Really, I came to say I really appreciated having just the data to play with.

Would have been nice to have a few more columns though. Country of origin, number of episodes and play time. etc.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#32

Post by zerocrates »

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.

The only thing I'd really like to see them add is just a column for how many hours each thing is, so you could tell how many "watches" this vaguely converts to. Of course you could look that up but, a lot of looking up to do there.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#33

Post by karmelapple »

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.

These are not all Netflix exclusives - I see "Breaking Bad: Season 5" on here, Minions: The Rise of Gru, etc.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#34

Post by [deleted] »

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #23
ortusdux wrote: post #2

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

[deleted]

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#35

Post by teej »

I noticed that the watchtime of `You` was split half-and-half between the new season 4 and the prior seasons 1-3. I was curious about the total results by show, including all seasons. Here's the top 25:

    TITLE                 TOTAL HRS WATCHED
    -----                 -----------------
    Ginny & Georgia       967,200,000
    The Night Agent       812,100,000
    You                   766,300,000
    Outer Banks           740,400,000
    The Walking Dead      738,600,000
    The Glory             622,800,000
    La Reina del Sur      616,800,000
    CoComelon             601,200,000
    Suits (2011)          599,100,000
    The Blacklist         596,900,000
    Manifest              581,900,000
    Grey's Anatomy        560,300,000
    Wednesday             507,700,000
    Gilmore Girls         505,800,000
    Breaking Bad          505,000,000
    Queen Charlotte       503,000,000
    Friends (1994)        448,500,000
    Love Is Blind         439,300,000
    Lucifer               434,300,000
    The Big Bang Theory   420,400,000
    Shameless (U.S.)      392,600,000
    PAW Patrol            392,300,000
    New Amsterdam (2018)  375,500,000
    Brooklyn Nine-Nine    358,900,000
    Firefly Lane          342,700,000

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#37

Post by jay_kyburz »

kranke155 wrote: post #12
ferrumfist wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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

I really love the production values, the costumes, the makeup, the world. I love the idea of the Witcher.

But I have no idea what the story is about or what anybody is talking about. It's just all way too complicated.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#38

Post by karaterobot »

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.

If they did put it into a slick data visualization, people would say "this is marketing, just give me the raw numbers". This is better because if we wait 2 minutes, someone will make a visualization of it anyway.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#39

Post by everdrive »

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.

Based on my experience, I would imagine some management type grabbed the reins and claimed that the engineers just don't know how to present information! And then of course he proceeded to make the message worse and less clear.
Post reply on HN