The fourth season of “Stranger Things” was watched for 287 millions of hours on its premiere weekend last 27 in May, a fact that Netflix announced this Tuesday as the best debut in the history of its platform.
The long-awaited new batch of episodes of the science-fiction format broke a record hitherto held by the Spanish “Money Heist”, which with the premiere of its fifth season in 2021 added 193 millions of hours watched in its first weekend.
In third place among the best premieres in Netflix history is the second season of “Bridgerton”, with 193 millions of hours played in March this year.
Netflix has a habit of publishing its viewership data in unconventional ways.
Instead of counting the number of viewers of a program, like most television networks, the company measures the number of hours that the titles on its platform are played.
Thus, it intends to measure the performance of its programs in a more realistic way, since if it only took into account the number of viewers Users who start playing a series but stop after a few minutes would slip through. everything related to its audiences, which are not audited by an external company as traditional television networks and movie studios have been used to for years.
Regardless of the measurement system, the rest of the indicators confirm that