Netflix has given viewers a glimpse behind the curtain by revealing the viewership numbers for its 10 most-watched series and movies of all time.

The California-based streaming video platform, the world’s largest, released the information as part of its second quarter financial report (PDF) on Wednesday.

To add weight to the quality of the ranking data, the company now divides the number of hours viewed by a show’s runtime to prevent longer films from getting an advantage over shorter ones and give a better idea of how many times a show was watched in full.

The data is not only meant to help viewers decide on what to watch but also help content creators “understand what success looks like on Netflix”. Other streaming services are not as forthcoming about viewership statistics on their platforms, Netflix claimed.

The company has done well to fight off rivals in a space that has become increasingly competitive. Netflix said its own data shows streaming now consumes 38% of total daily screen time, up from 26% in May 2021.

Top 10 most popular series	Hours (millions)	Hours/runtime (millions)
Squid Game season 1	2 200	265
Wednesday season 1	1 700	252
Stranger Things season 4	1 800	141
Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story	1 000	116
Bridgerton season 1	929	113
The Queen’s Gambit	746	113
Money Heist season 4	710	106
Lupin season 1	396	100
Money Heist season 5	900	99
The Night Agent season 1	803	98

Top 10 most popular movies	Hours (millions)	Hours/runtime (millions)
Red Notice	454	231
Don’t Look Up	409	171
The Adam Project	281	158
Bird Box	325	157
The Gray Man	300	139
We Can Be Heroes	231	137
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	320	136
Extraction	267	136
The Mother	257	132
Spenser Confidential	239	129

The number of streaming services has more than doubled since then, but Netflix said its “strength in entertainment and technology” have seen its share of screen time grow by more than two percentage points in the past two years, a feat matched only by YouTube in the streaming category. — (c) 2023 NewsCentral Media