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The Rise of the Netflix Hit - Vulture
Last week, Netflix released some data about its most popular titles, and as usual, it all smelled a little fishy. The recent Chris Hemsworth action flick Extraction was apparently the most popular Netflix Original of all time, with 99 million views, followed by the 2018 Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box with 89 million and March’s Mark Wahlberg mystery Spenser Confidential with 85 million. These numbers aren’t lies, exactly, but as many have noted, what Netflix characterizes as a “view” has been a fairly mutable thing as of late. Up until early this year, Netflix defined it as users watching at least 70 percent of a movie or a single episode of a series. In January 2020, however, the company announced that it now defined a view as something that was watched for at least two minutes.
Let me say that again: two (2) minutes.
That means that if you started watching Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, you haven’t even gotten to “Volcano Man” yet — and that’s the second scene of the picture.
Last week, Netflix released some data about its most popular titles, and as usual, it all smelled a little fishy. The recent Chris Hemsworth action flick Extraction was apparently the most popular Netflix Original of all time, with 99 million views, followed by the 2018 Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box with 89 million and March’s Mark Wahlberg mystery Spenser Confidential with 85 million. These numbers aren’t lies, exactly, but as many have noted, what Netflix characterizes as a “view” has been a fairly mutable thing as of late. Up until early this year, Netflix defined it as users watching at least 70 percent of a movie or a single episode of a series. In January 2020, however, the company announced that it now defined a view as something that was watched for at least two minutes.
Let me say that again: two (2) minutes.
That means that if you started watching Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, you haven’t even gotten to “Volcano Man” yet — and that’s the second scene of the picture.