Kind of funny that Netflix, the video hosting website, uses YouTube to host their videos on their website.
Youtube is for marketing. Netflix is for revenue.
Just like regular ads by TV channels on youtube.
What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report
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#102I have a Netflix subscription. I have watched exactly 0 hours total of the items called out in TFA; am I out of touch? Am I missing something of particular cultural value?
You may want to give "Breaking Bad" a try - watch the first season to see if you enjoy it. I'm not sure if it qualifies as "cultural value" but many critics like it. I liked it too, even though I hate almost everything. It has some good acting and writing, and a compelling storyline.
It's not on Netflix in my region so I guess I'll go fuck myself.
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#103Kind of funny that Netflix, the video hosting website, uses YouTube to host their videos on their website.
Why is this funny? Netflix is not a video hosting website? It's a subscription-based on-demand streaming service. You can't host my videos on Netflix, can you?
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#104I wonder what the numbers were for when the office was on Netflix.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Give "Dark" a watch.
I was fairly disappointed in 1899, after coming from Dark (same creators). Dark was incredibly dense, by comparison. Dark is easily my top show on Netflix, so far.
Concur regarding Dark - it's kind of amazing that Netflix can, when it wishes to, produce "HBO Caliber" content - but so much of the time it's just time-filler drek.
I don't regret a single minute of the time I spent watching Dark 3-4 years ago, nor the time I spent in the office discussing it, or even the time I tried to graph it all (with varying degrees of success)...
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#106No wonder Netflix continues to make shitty shows. People are watching shitty shows. I don't watch the shows that the bulk of Netflix viewers watch!
Same. I feel Netflix is a really shitty version of HBO. I rarely, if ever, watch it. The original House of Cards was great. Mindhunter was alright. Neither reached the pinnacle of most HBO programming. It's a shame that David Zaslav believes prestige television must take a backseat to cheap, "comfort" viewing. And the fact that they ditched such a prestigious brand to rename themselves "Max".
"The original 'House of Cards'" was this one[0] set in the UK.
Presumably you're thinking of the US remake with Kevin Spacey.
[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
/pedant
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#107This is a wonderful gold mine for data geeks. The real question to me is why Netflix is releasing this. It's a massive boon for their competitors. My instinct is they either were hacked/people were able to game the recommendations enough to get at it that they decided to just share it. Unexpected.
There was a major transparency ask from both writers and other creative community members as part of demands during the recent SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, perhaps publishing the data was part of the settlement in those disputes.
It was! Previously studios did not want to disclose streaming numbers publicly, except under NDA to certain authorized union members.
Now writers (and actors, and anyone else) can use this information to better negotiate their worth with studios, rather than it being 1-sided.
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/what-we-won
> Streaming data transparency: Companies agree to provide the Guild the total number of hours streamed, both domestically and internationally, of self-produced high budget streaming programs (e.g., a Netflix original series). Aggregated information can be shared.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 the…
Stuff that comes out weekly seems to do better on cultural impact. ~Everyone's seen the Invincible memes.[0][1] I see What We Do In The Shadows references all the time.[2] There are a few shows I've never watched, but know bits and pieces about through stuff like this. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-what-they-need-to-mimic-... [2] https://knowyo…
Hahaha this is hilarious and a massively unintentional strengthening of a point being argued against.
Many of us haven’t seen those shows or memes your bubble is your bubble only. That is the entire point and thrust of this comment thread.
Then this comment comes in and is all ‘actually we’ve all seen these’ and we are all like…… nah?
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#109This is a wonderful gold mine for data geeks. The real question to me is why Netflix is releasing this. It's a massive boon for their competitors. My instinct is they either were hacked/people were able to game the recommendations enough to get at it that they decided to just share it. Unexpected.
I'm guessing it's for the reasons they state. They've gotten a reputation for canceling shows. Creatives feel that it's unjustified, and I'm assuming they feel that it's justified based on the numbers the shows are pulling in and the cost. And they feel that transparency about this is the best way to demonstrate their case. That the data backs up their decisions. Most network show cancelations come with low rating th…
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#110I love that they released the report in Excel format. They collectively saved millions of man hours across the world from doing useless data scraping and reformatting.