Netflix is ​​changing the way it measures its top 10

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Netflix is ​​changing the way it measures its top 10, a new ranking method that came into effect on Tuesday.

Rankings will now be based on the total number of hours viewed for a given program, rather than Netflix's previous standard, which is the number of subscribers who viewed two minutes of the program.

“After looking at the different options, we believe that engagement measured by hours viewed is a strong indicator of a title's popularity, as well as overall member satisfaction, which is important for retention of service. 'subscription,' writes Pablo Perez De Rosso, vice president of content.

strategy, planning and analysis for Netflix, in a blog post announcing the change.

This top 10 will be complemented by a dedicated website displaying the best titles in terms of audience in more than 90 countries.

The top 10 will be updated daily on the Los Gatos platform, while it will be updated every Tuesday on the dedicated website.

"Red Notice" and "Narcos: Mexico" lead the first ranking

This website will feature 4 top 10 worldwide: a ranking of English series, non-English series, English films, and non-English films.

These world rankings will be accompanied by the hours viewed on each title over the previous week.

The top of the country will only be a ranking without viewing time figures.

Netflix's hours viewed metric is similar to that of Nielsen's weekly top 10 streaming, which lists the most watched shows (in terms of minutes watched, rather than hours) among original and acquired series as well as all. movie titles on five VOD platforms (Apple TV +, Disney +, Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video).

Netflix's First Global Top 10 November 8-14 places

top movie with 149 million viewing hours worldwide and the third season of

tops the world's most popular series (50.29 million hours viewed), ahead of

(42.79 million hours viewed).

"Bird Box" and "Squid Game" top movies and series of all time

The site also offers top movies and series (broken down by season) of all time on Netflix.

On the film side,

is at the top of the ranking with 282,020,000 hours of viewing during its first four weeks, while on the series side,

takes first place on the podium, with 1.6 billion hours watched worldwide in its first four weeks, double the number two most popular series,

(625 million hours watched in its first four weeks.)

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