According to Variety, Netflix’s co-CEO and Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos, revealed at the Vox Media’s Code Conference the company’s most popular titles. The results were calculated using two metrics. One is a proprietary metric of the number of accounts that selected a given title in the first 28 days of release and watched for at least two minutes. The other showed the total time spent viewing by hours within the first 28 days. This data has never been released by Netflix before.
Sarandos said that the company is “trying to be more transparent with talent, with the market.”
So the results are in and the most popular show on Netflix was Bridgerton with 82 million accounts having spent 625 million hours watching it. The most popular film title is split between Extraction, which received the most accounts watching at 99 million, and Birdbox, which had more viewing time at 282 million hours compared to Extraction’s 231 million hours.
Here are the complete results: