How to read the figures
Six examples, five on The Gentlemen
Example 1Seasons and all time
A season’s figure covers its run only. All time adds every week of the title: a season watched again after its run (a re-entry when the next season comes out), and seasons that are not compared.
Example 2Views and minutes
Netflix views are hours watched worldwide divided by the runtime. Nielsen publishes minutes watched in the United States by persons aged 2 and over, all episodes. The two measure different things and are never added or converted.
Example 3A week's grade and a period's grade
Each week has one grade: A where Netflix published the views, B for an estimate from ranks, C when the attention tail holds most of it. A period takes the grade that carries most of its views, and says how many weeks were published and how many estimated.
Example 4Published and estimated
In a week where the title is in Netflix’s global Top 10, the figure is the one Netflix published. In other weeks it is our estimate: the sum of the countries whose Top 10 lists the title, with its 10th to 90th percentile range.
Example 5Attention share
Where a title never entered a country’s Top 10 there is no view estimate. The attention share is its share of the Wikipedia pageviews of the catalogue in that country’s languages: a share of attention, not an audience.
Example 6A title's first weeks
A line over one to three weeks says little. Until a title (or a season) has four weeks with a figure, its page draws one bar per week, and for a launch two reference lines: the median and the top quartile of the week-1 figures of the launches of the same kind in the 52 weeks before. From the fourth week the weekly chart returns.
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Week 1 of a launch · top 3% of series launches · 89 countries in week 1