Netflix Releases Binge Stats For The Past Year, Puts Some Customers On Blast For Their Choices
By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2017 11:30 am EST
The company has unveiled a new batch of binge-watching statistics from its users over the past year, and amid some interesting observations about the pacing of how viewers watch certain shows, they also take a minute to (anonymously) call out a couple of viewers, including one who watched Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl for 365 days in a row. (No word yet on whether that was Johnny Depp revisiting his glory days.)
According to the press release, Netflix surveyed more than 60,000 members around the globe about their habits from November 1, 2016 to November 1, 2017, and discovered that we collective watch 140 million hours of content per day, which adds up to over a billion hours of Netflix content watched per week. Jeez, when they put it like that, we should probably all take a break from and go outside a little more often, huh? Before we get to the meat of the discussion, there’s one other small point worth bringing up: Mexico outranks every other country when it comes to the number of customers who watch Netflix every single day. So there’s a little piece of trivia to bring up during an awkward silence at your office holiday party.
Meanwhile, Netflix pointed out that the viewer who streamed Pirates every day (possibly Johnny Depp…they didn’t say it wasn’t Johnny Depp) is an outlier, because the average Netflix member only watches 60 movies per year on the service. (That’s five per month.) And then there’s this:
To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
— Netflix (@netflix) December 11, 2017
When you stop to think about it, is Netflix tracking these habits amusing or kind of creepy? They’ve been watching us from the start: tracking their user base’s viewing habits informed how they decided to begin producing original content (famously, they figured out that its users were fans of David Fincher and Kevin Spacey, and the result was House of Cards).
