Netflix revamped TV series viewing ratings and put "Wednesday" in first place

For a long time, Netflix has measured the success of its projects based on hours watched. That is, if you reviewed the season of Stranger Things, these hours also go to the piggy bank of the series, although you have already seen these episodes before. Now Netflix changed an algorithm for calculating the popularity of films and series - and "Wednesday' It turned out to be on hand.

Netflix's new popularity system doesn't just take into account the total number of hours, but also divides it by the length of the movie or season to figure out the conditional number of views. Of course, in fact, one person could watch the movie several times, and this will be counted as several views, while the other "viewing" turned out due to a dozen people who did not advance beyond the first series, but in total saw enough of the necessary few hours. Also, statistics are now taken into account for 91 days from the date of release, and not 28, as before.

Due to such permutations, slightly lagging behind fourth season "Stranger Things" by the hour, but the much shorter first season of "Wednesday" shot ahead in the top English-language series - and by a huge margin of 112 million views.

Also in the top 10 third season "Stranger Things" two seasonsBridgerton”, a series about Jeffrey Dahmer from the series “Monster”, “Queen's Move”, both released seasons “Witcher” and “Night Agent” - a new action movie released in March.

In the case of films, there were no significant changes: all popular releases run for about two hours, so the leader has not changed - this is “red notice».

Also in the top tenDon't look up”, “Project Adam”, “Bird Box”, “gray man"," We can become heroes ","Get Knives: Glass Bulb(it suffered the most, dropping from third to seventh), Operation Rescue, Spencer's Justice, and Purple Hearts.