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Daniel Frankel

Cagey With the Engagey? Why Netflix's New 'Engagement Report' Doesn't Tell Us Much About Its Tough Viewership Year

Netflix original series 'The Night Agent'.

With Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos recently, amid the backdrop of the Hollywood guild strikes, declaring a new era of greater viewership metric transparency, the streaming company on Tuesday released a spreadsheet tallying total worldwide viewership hours for more than 18,000 titles for the first six months of 2023, covering 99% of the platform's total streaming during that period. 

It's an exhaustive spreadsheet that can be downloaded via a link found this Netflix press release. (Viewing hours are rounded up to the closest 100,000.) It's certainly the most ratings data that Netflix has released at any one time. 

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