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The Rise of the Netflix Hit
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2398" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/the-rise-of-the-netflix-hit.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Rise of the Netflix Hit - Vulture</strong></a></p><p></p><p>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 <em>Extraction</em> was apparently the most popular Netflix Original of all time, with 99 million views, followed by the 2018 Sandra Bullock thriller <em>Bird Box</em> with 89 million and March’s Mark Wahlberg mystery <em>Spenser Confidential</em> with 85 million. These numbers aren’t lies, exactly, but <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/buffering-newsletter-netflix-numbers.html" target="_blank">as many have noted</a>, 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.</p><p></p><p>Let me say that again: two (2) minutes.</p><p></p><p>That means that if you started watching <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-review-netflixs-eurovision-starring-will-ferrell.html" target="_blank"><em>Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga</em></a>, you haven’t even gotten to “<a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/netflix-releases-will-ferrell-volcano-man-from-eurovision.html" target="_blank">Volcano Man</a>” yet — and that’s the second scene of the picture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2398, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/the-rise-of-the-netflix-hit.html'][B]The Rise of the Netflix Hit - Vulture[/B][/URL] 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 [I]Extraction[/I] was apparently the most popular Netflix Original of all time, with 99 million views, followed by the 2018 Sandra Bullock thriller [I]Bird Box[/I] with 89 million and March’s Mark Wahlberg mystery [I]Spenser Confidential[/I] with 85 million. These numbers aren’t lies, exactly, but [URL='https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/buffering-newsletter-netflix-numbers.html']as many have noted[/URL], 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 [URL='https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-review-netflixs-eurovision-starring-will-ferrell.html'][I]Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga[/I][/URL], you haven’t even gotten to “[URL='https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/netflix-releases-will-ferrell-volcano-man-from-eurovision.html']Volcano Man[/URL]” yet — and that’s the second scene of the picture. [/QUOTE]
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