Netflix reveals top TV shows of 2023
Netflix has released its first ever biannual report into how their original shows and performed on the platform.
The report titled “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report”, covers over 18,000 titles and nearly 100 billion hours viewed between a six-month period from January and June.
Content is included in the report if it's been watched for over 50,000 hours.
According to the list the most-watched TV show during the six month period, was Season 1 of The Night Agent, a US show which stars Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan.
The show racked up a massive 812.1 million hours of viewership.
Comedy-drama Ginny & Georgia took second spot, which was streamed for over 665 million hours.
The third most-watched show was the first season of the South Korean thriller The Glory with 622 million hours of viewership.
Worldwide hit Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega ranked fourth, with half a billion hours from January to June, even though it technically had over one billion hours of viewership in the first 19 days since after it was released in November 2022.
But since the show premiered late last year, most viewers had already finished the series by the time the Netflix report began.
Netflix co – chief executive Ted Sarandos said that the streaming platform is making continuous effort to make viewership information more public, in order to build trust with their audience.
“In the earliest days, it really wasn’t really in our interest to be that transparent because we were building a new business and we also needed room to learn but we also didn’t want to provide road maps to future competitors,” Sarandos told reporters, according to Vulture.
“The unintended consequence of not having more transparent data about our engagement was it created an atmosphere of mistrust over time with producers and creators and the press about what was happening on Netflix,” Sarados said.
“So we’ve been on this continuum of opening things up.”
Image: Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images