Hello, Insiders. It’s the penultimate international newsletter before the holiday season, but there’s no festive slowdown in TV and film news just yet.
Jesse Whittock here taking you through. Read on and sign up here. Data dump: Since its inception — and especially since it became an original content player — Netflix has wrestled with releasing viewing data publicly.
This week, its improving levels of transparency reached new heights with the release of What We Watched, a global report on 18,000+ titles from its library (equating to 99% of its catalog) covering the first six months of 2023.
Data transparency was one of the key issues in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations, and while these new semi-annual reports aren’t the full picture, they provide insight deeper than anything released before.
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