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Post by paganel »

Oras wrote: post #3

Is the average monthly usage of Netflix 43h/month? That's 1.1 hours per day! Where does this data come from? Is it global or specific to a country? It seems like quite a lot. Can't believe Spotify, which I assume people listen to during work or commute so would potentially be higher, has only 5 hours/month compared to 43h/month from Netflix. That's why I'm curious to know the source of the data.

Not the OP and certainly not my case (cause I don't have a Netflix account) but I have lots of people I know who do more than 1.1 hours per day on Netlix.

I'm talking mostly middle-class millenials from an Eastern-European capital city, but I'm pretty sure the same thing is in place in other locations, too. These people have effectively stopped watching television programming and it's all video-streaming for them now, mostly Netflix but also HBO Max and maybe Disney.

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Post by varispeed »

I thought I won't be able to cancel Netflix. Whenever I made the decision to quit, they come up with a show that I would half watch and then think hmm maybe next one will be better, then come to a decision to cancel and well... rinse and repeat.

Anyway, been 6 months clean now. I even forgot most of things I watched there.

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Post by dagw »

deafpolygon wrote: post #7

Pretty inaccurate. "In 2020, each Netflix subscriber in the U.S. was watching an average of 3.2 hours of Netflix content per day." -- https://www.zippia.com/answers/how-many-hours-of-netflix-are... Let's say there's 4 weeks to a month - that's 12.8 hours a month. So using $23/m is going to be 1.8/h -- I'd be curious to see the median hours per month per user -- I am willing to bet the average is skewed by the top 20%…

In 2020, each Netflix subscriber in the U.S. was watching an average of 3.2 hours of Netflix content per day

A lot has changed in the streaming landscape since 2020. I would not at all be surprised if while the daily avg. hasn't changed, it is now spread out over more streaming services. I know I watch a lot more Not Netflix now than I did a few years ago.

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Post by giarc »

Oras wrote: post #3

Is the average monthly usage of Netflix 43h/month? That's 1.1 hours per day! Where does this data come from? Is it global or specific to a country? It seems like quite a lot. Can't believe Spotify, which I assume people listen to during work or commute so would potentially be higher, has only 5 hours/month compared to 43h/month from Netflix. That's why I'm curious to know the source of the data.

You can get your own specific stats for Netflix using a Chrome Extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/netflix-viewing-sta...). I'm sure there are a few different ones, that was just the first google result.

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Post by reedf1 »

Oras wrote: post #3

Is the average monthly usage of Netflix 43h/month? That's 1.1 hours per day! Where does this data come from? Is it global or specific to a country? It seems like quite a lot. Can't believe Spotify, which I assume people listen to during work or commute so would potentially be higher, has only 5 hours/month compared to 43h/month from Netflix. That's why I'm curious to know the source of the data.

Hours of TV watched a day are unintuitive to me, and by my opinion absurdly high. I discovered a few months ago, this graph:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269918/daily-tv-viewing-...

Which completely shifted my understanding of TV consumption. Median daily UK linear TV viewing time was 3 hours in 2021.

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Post by johncalvinyoung »

Explains why Spotify and Kindle Unlimited is an automatic yes from me, and new fiction hard copies much less so, based on my usage.

- Spotify: 65k minutes a year, 90h/mo, so around 0.13/h

I’m a fast reader, so a novel averages 2-5 hours for me, probably 4h would be a fair guess.

Last few years have averaged 150 titles a year on KU, so… 50hr/mo and 0.25/h in costs.

And that print novel is usually 15-25 these days new… and still only 3-4h for me, at least $5/h. I’ll buy books I want to own in the long term, or support the authors, but that’s still expensive.

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Post by [deleted] »

reedf1 wrote: post #15
Oras wrote: post #3

Is the average monthly usage of Netflix 43h/month? That's 1.1 hours per day! Where does this data come from? Is it global or specific to a country? It seems like quite a lot. Can't believe Spotify, which I assume people listen to during work or commute so would potentially be higher, has only 5 hours/month compared to 43h/month from Netflix. That's why I'm curious to know the source of the data.

Hours of TV watched a day are unintuitive to me, and by my opinion absurdly high. I discovered a few months ago, this graph: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269918/daily-tv-viewing-... Which completely shifted my understanding of TV consumption. Median daily UK linear TV viewing time was 3 hours in 2021.

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Post by danpalmer »

While the numbers might be a bit hit and miss, the comparison with individual creators is fascinating and definitely hits upon something that keeps me from subscribing to patreons/etc.

I don't have just one creator who I would consistently want to support the most, there are probably 10-20 who I would like to support, however I'm not going to pay 10x of them $5/h for content when YouTube is 1x $0.50/h (and has their content). To me, content creation is always going to need to be bundled at some level because I want diversity that no one creator is ever going to provide, and when bundling the price typically reduces because the bundling correctly recognises that consumption does not scale up.

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