Netflix: What the viewing figures actually tell us about viewing habits

Netflix ranks its viewing data is by the total number of hours viewed - and FBI thriller The Night Agent came out on top, with 812 million hours viewed. Stranger Things' cumulative total of 347 million hours would make the show rank more highly as a whole than the 61st placing it got for season four's 133 million hours. Netflix says subscribers spent a whopping 812 million hours watching The Night Agent, which topped the rankings overall. The fact that film and TV durations vary so wildly makes the streamer's decision to list its viewing by hours more complicated - because it doesn't tell us how many people watched a particular show. As Luther's run time is a little over two hours, you could in theory cut that number in half to get a rough estimate of the number of households that clicked play - about 100 million.

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