“What we saw”What we saw“) is the name of the report that Netflix will publish every six months starting in December 2023, as a gesture of transparency towards its users and the general community of people who consume content via streaming.
In its first report, published on December 12 on its official website, 18,000 titles were taken into account, which the platform says represents 99% of its catalog. The data records the “performance” of these productions between January and June 2023. These include the most recently released Peruvian productions in “on-demand” format.
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In a statement accompanying the release of this report, Netflix highlighted that in the first half of 2023, 30% of broadcast hours were non-English language content, with one of the most successful Latin American productions being the third season of “The Queen”. “del sur”, filmed in various locations in South America. Among them Peru.
This season of “La Reina del Sur”, the seventh production with the most views in the first half of 2023 (exactly 429,600,000 viewing hours), featured Peruvian talents such as Mayella Lloclla and Rodrigo Palacios.
The full Netflix reporting data can be downloaded here. However, below we tell you the performance of the main Peruvian titles on Netflix.
The most watched Peruvian series and films on Netflix in 2023
To date, there are only two 100% original productions for Netflix in Peru. Both were released in 2022: the film “Until We Meet Again,” released on March 18, 2022; and the “Contigo capitan” series, which started on October 5, 2022. But there are several films that have been added to the Netflix catalog from cinemas or national television. So many of them appear in this first report. Among them, the most recent film “Asu Mare”, the award-winning films “Wiñaypacha” and “Canción sin nombre” and the series “The Last Bastion” stand out.
It should be noted that Peruvian films such as “Soltera Coveda 2” and “Soltera, Casada, Widowa, Divorce”, currently available on Netflix, do not appear in this report as they were added to the catalog after the month of June. This report only includes figures from January to June.
These were the most-watched films and series on Netflix in 2023:
| qualification | Play hours |
|---|---|
| “Until we meet again” | 4,200,000 |
| “Asu Mare: The Friends” | 2,700,000 |
| “The Last Bastion” | 1,400,000 |
| “Peru, hidden treasure” | 600,000 |
| “Virgil” | 400,000 |
| “Utopia” | 400,000 |
| “With you captain” | 400,0000 |
| “The Quarry” | 200,000 |
| “Yes, my love: we are getting married” | 200,000 |
| “Song without a name” | 100,000 |
| “Crazy in Love 2” | 100,000 |
| “Winaypacha” | 100,000 |
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It should be noted that in addition to titles produced in Peru such as those mentioned above, there are also productions on Netflix that either have Peruvian talent or Peruvian filming locations. This is the case with these productions: the reality show “Street Food: Latin America”, whose chapter is dedicated to Peru, reached 1,300,000 viewing hours, but its counterparts from the USA and Asia had more views in the same period.
One of the most-watched reality shows on Netflix this year was “Jugando con fuego” (“Too Hot To Handle”), whose fourth season starred Flavia Laos. The season, released at the end of 2022, had 42,600,000 viewing hours.
“El Guau,” a Mexican film starring Peruvian Sirena Ortiz, premiered in November 2022 and earned 7,200,000 viewing hours, according to Netflix report.
The Ecuadorian film “Dedicated to My Ex,” whose star cast includes Carlos Alcántara, was viewed for an average of 400,000 hours. While Stephanie Cayo appeared in “Yucatán” with 1,100,000 hours of playback and in “Amalgama” with 200,000 hours of playback.
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