Netflix published its first half-year report with detailed information this Tuesday Viewer data for all series and films shown on the streaming platformincluding licensed productions and with “The Night Agent” at the top of the rankings.
The document, titled “What We Watched,” presents 18,000 titles around the world, 99% of the catalog, and includes the number of hours watched for each production. between January and June 2023, with information on the release date and whether it is available worldwide.
The series that tops the report's list is “The Night Agent” with Peter Sutherland and Rose Larkin, with 812 million viewing hours; followed by the second season of “Ginny & Georgia”, with 661 million hours; while the South Korean series “The Glory” It ranks third with 622 million hours watched.
In Spanish, The most watched title is the third season of “The Queen of the South”.a Telemundo-produced series that ranks seventh on Netflix's global list with 429 million cumulative hours.
They follow the Colombian drama “False Profile”with 206 million viewing hours and the Colombian series “Pálpito” with 174 million viewing hours among international audiences.
The co-CEO of Netflix, Ted Sarandos, explained in a call with the press attended by Efe that the document is committed to continuing the transparency process the company has implemented over the past few years to show useful information to creators and dispel the atmosphere of distrust towards producers and creatives regarding the success of productions.
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Hollywood actors and screenwriters' unions staged two historic strikes against major studios and streaming platforms this year. Among other things, they are demanding data transparency from the platforms in order to achieve fairer payment for remaining rightsthe additional amounts that services must pay creators for use of their content.
Although Netflix is one of the platforms that provides the most information about its content with weekly lists of the most watched productions, Sarandos denied this Monday that the conflict with the unions was the driving force behind the publication of these data.
“The unintended consequence of a lack of transparency leads to this type of distrust. “Probably all this information is more than they need, but (its publication) creates a better environment for the unions, for us, for the producers, for the creators and for the press,” the executive said.