Last week, Netflix announced a “new” formula for its weekly Top 10 list. Instead of relying on total viewing time, the company will now look at total views—well, this being Netflix, not the exact number of accounts watching a given title per week, but the familiar back-of-the-envelope equivalent that we’ve become accustomed to from the company. Namely, take the total hours watched, divide it by the number of episodes/length of a film, and you arrive at a theoretical number of completed views, not just the total number of hours viewed. The new metric gives theoretical insight into how many accounts watched a title, which analysts have done for years using the bar-napkin estimate that Netflix is now making “official.”
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