For the first time, the streaming platform has revealed a global report of general audience data from the first half of 2023, to assess viewer’s relationship with the available catalogue and to respond to criticism of a lack of transparency and information, said Netflix co-administrator Ted Sarandos at a press conference.

“Over time, we have sought to be more transparent about what people watch on Netflix. The best measure to understand the relationship between viewers and the title on display is the number of hours”, he added.

The list features more than 18,000 works shown on Netflix, in the first half of this year, with at least more than 50,000 hours of streaming, representing close to 100 billion hours viewed.

Top 500 shows

The Portuguese series, “Rabo de Peixe”, premiered in May, and is among the 500 productions with the most viewing hours, globally, at the top of the list we have the first season of the series “O Agente da Noite”, by Shawn Ryan, with 812.1 million hours of viewing between January and June.

Since 2021, Netflix, one of the world’s largest online streaming platforms, has been releasing consumption data, with weekly releases of the most viewed titles, or lists of the most popular works, now revealed information about the works licensed for “streaming”.

“Rabo de Peixe”, which has been guaranteed a second season, is a production by Ukbar Filmes, based on an idea by Augusto Fraga, who co-directed the series with Patrícia Sequeira.

In the first weeks after airing, the Portuguese series was in the global top ten most-watched series in languages other than English.

This is the second Portuguese fiction series produced for Netflix, after “Glória” by Pedro Lopes, directed by Tiago Guedes, produced by SPI and premiered in November 2021.

“Glória” had a total of 1.6 million hours of viewing between January and June this year.

In accordance with Netflix, in the first half of this year, 30 percent of the total hours of streaming concerned productions in non-English languages.

Another noteworthy series is “Até que a vida nos separa”, directed by Manuel Pureza, whose first season premiered in February 2022 and which this year, until June, totalled 400,000 hours of viewing.

The streaming service from the North American company Netflix has been available in Portugal since October 2015.

Netflix currently has 247 million subscribers who pay to access the service and is present in more than 190 countries.

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