news culture Attention new rule! Netflix changes its ranking and brings the Wednesday series clearly to the top of the ranking
Finding a place in the Netflix catalog is difficult, but some productions, whether in-house or not, sometimes manage to break the records of the various categories and become global phenomena. But the company seemed dissatisfied with the metrics and decided to introduce a new way to measure success.
The number of hours watched, an incomprehensible system?
Netflix was born in the late ’90s, however From 2007 the activity has been digitized and that the video-on-demand service began to take the form we know today. So it does 15 years of platform developmentin front of a real juggernaut around the world.
With more than 230 million subscribers Around the world, Netflix is still the leader but is now being challenged by other giants Disney, Amazon or Warner Bros.. Netflix has long rated the success of broadcast productions based on compatibilityThe number of hours viewed in the first 28 days. Although this allowed a hierarchy to be created between the various productions, it was for many observers it didn’t say much about the actual impact a movie, series, anime or documentary about the public.
What does Netflix tell us when we’re told that a particular series has been watched for more than a billion hours? We don’t know the number of people who started at least one episode, their geographic distribution, or the viewing time. PTo provide more clarity, Netflix decided to add a new measure Audience, much more meaningful.
Netflix is making the success of its catalog more readable, Wednesday is taking advantage!
Indeed, and only for a few days, Netflix counts the number of subscribers who have seen the films and series in full over a period of three months (91 days). A way to see if a production has worked over time, but also to make its success a little more concerted.
Overall, the new measure follows on from the previous one, not least with a few exceptions. It’s like that with the old system the fourth season of stranger things which dominates the ranking of English-language series with 1.8 billion hours watched. With the newly added system, It is Wednesday That lands at the top of the rankings with 252.1 million full views.
The box of the series worn by Jenna Ortega is therefore confirmed a little more and we eagerly await the second season, which promises to be very different. However, Netflix’s biggest hit All languages combined remains the Korean series Squid Games with more than 1.6 billion watched hours. As far as feature films go, that’s the way it is Red notice who currently holds the throne English language films with 230.9 million full views and 454.2 million hours viewed.
