Squid Game is about to take over the streaming TV world.
At a US media conference this week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer, has revealed in a couple of presentation slides the streaming platform’s biggest ever TV series and movies.
Speaking at Vox Media’s Code Conference in Los Angeles, the slides indicated the most popular Netflix shows using Netflix data based on the number of accounts that selected a title in the first 28 days of release (and streamed for at least two minutes).
Sarandos also shares the total time spent viewing within that 28-day window which apparently is a metric that Netflix has not shared publicly before.
As he was speaking about the data on the charts, Sarandos noted the new Korean survival drama Squid Game has a good chance of becoming the most-watched Netflix TV series ever.
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Squid Game currently ranks #1 globally for Netflix with Sarandos saying: “We did not see that coming, in terms of its global popularity.”
Most sampled Netflix shows
Bridgerton (82 million)
Lupin season 1 (76 million)
The Witcher season 1 (76 million)
Sex/Life season 1 (67 million)
Stranger Things season 3 (67 million)
Money Heist Part 4 (65 million)
Tiger King (64 million)
The Queen’s Gambit (62 million)
Sweet Tooth season 1 (60 million)
Emily in Paris season 1 (58 million)
Most sampled Netflix movies
Extraction (99 million)
Bird Box (89 million)
Spenser Confidential (85 million)
6 Underground (83 million)
Murder Mystery (83 million)
The Old Guard (78 million)
Enola Holmes (77 million)
Project Power (75 million)
Army of the Dead (75 million)
Fatherhood (74 million)
Stranger Things
Most watched Netflix shows by hours
Bridgerton (625 million hours)
Money Heist Part 4 (619 million hours)
Stranger Things season 3 (582 million hours)
The Witcher season 1 (541 million hours)
13 Reasons Why season 2 (496 million hours)
You season 2 (457 million hours)
Stranger Things season 2 (427 million hours)
Money Heist Part 3 (426 million hours)
Ginny & Georgia season 1 (381 million hours)
Most watched Netflix movies by hours
Bird Box (282 million hours)
Extraction (231 million hours)
The Irishman (215 million hours)
The Kissing Booth 2 (209 million hours)
6 Underground (205 million hours)
Spenser Confidential (197 million hours)
Enola Holmes (190 million hours)
Army of the Dead (187 million hours)
The Old Guard (186 million hours)
Murder Mystery (170 million hours)
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