Here's what $15B gets you... A trophy you give to yourself. Netflix splurged all those billions of investors' cash on 2019's original content — movies/shows produced by Netflix, sprinkled with Jennifer Aniston and Stranger Things. Now Netflix is boasting that its releases this year were more watched than any other studio on the platform.
- #1: Adam Sandler and Jen's Murder Mystery won the charts.
- American Top 10: All of the 10 most popular new content were Netflix creations, except one: Disney's Incredibles 2.
- International flavors: Netflix's The Naked Director led Japan's ranking, while its police drama Sacred Games dominated India's.
Cue the asterisks... (we noticed plenty of them).
- Those rankings don't include older content, like reruns of The Office and Friends that dominate your binging habits.
- Neflix didn't provide actual viewer numbers to go along with those rankings.
- You didn't have to watch the whole thing — just 2 minutes of streaming qualified you as a "viewer." Because, you know, short attention sp-
Netflix's next decade depends on original content... Disney is yanking its magical content from Netflix to sprinkle on Disney+. And top-streamed shows Friends and The Office leave Netflix in 2020 and 2021 for HBO Max and NBC's Peacock (it's rerun-pocalypse). But of all the new releases hitting Netflix chillers' eyeballs, Netflix's homegrown talent is getting the most clicks.