We did it, everyone! After years of complaining about data-hoarding at Netflix and the other streaming services (including loudly in this space), and years of calling B.S. every time co-founder Reed Hastings or co-C.E.O. Ted Sarandos would say with a straight face that refusing to disclose ratings was actually better for the overall entertainment community, on Tuesday Netflix released the first of what will be a twice-a-year Netflix Engagement Report. And Sarandos, himself, admitted that the hoarding was what many of us had presumed all along: a strategy designed to suppress the information ecosystem to gain a competitive advantage.
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