SPRINT one of Netflix's top 10 shows and attracted 2.4 million views - is that good news or bad?

PS. If you haven't streamed it yet, you can add to the number here:

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Elite sprinters navigate training, media scrutiny and fierce competition in this sports series following their race to become the world's fastest humans.

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I would say due to the number of shows/movies that are available on the platform (a google search gave numbers "3,600+ movies and 1,800+ TV shows"), I think those viewership numbers are good.

I found the website FlixPatrol, that gives more current analytics on Netflix's top 10 and interesting graphical breakdowns, including a show's given ranking by country.

For USA, it's been ranked #4 for most of the past week. It's average worldwide ranking has been between #6.4 and #7.1 in the last week (they broke it down day-by-day)

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I don’t think that’s very good at all. Are they doing views or watch time?

a reality show like love island gets 1.2 mill viewers a episode.

also there isn’t much new content on Netflix right now. So if there was more new content it wouldn’t have even made the top ten?

I think alot of people had the expectation that it would get viewership like drive to survive and propel track like it did F1. F1 went from a sport basically 0 Americans talked about to the average sorority girl having opinions on what tires you should switch to on a pit stop with 30 laps to go in the Monico Grand prix all in the course of two years.

This obviously isn't going to happen to track if only 2.4 million watched it on Netflix.

If accurate, I think the numbers are ok. The viewership hours are about half of the Netflix F1 show's in the first week of recent seasons. I question the accuracy though - Netflix said 2.4m views for 10m total viewership hours? Every viewer is watching most of the whole show in the first week? 2.4m views seems pretty weak, but 10m hours would seem very good.

2.4 million views and 10 million hours of watch time, 4 hours of per view is a really impressive number in my opinion, shows people were interested in what they watched.

I see this as an overall positive, will get some people into track but not that many, performed better than I thought it would.

Reading into the data provided by Netflix, they define views as total hours viewed divided by total available runtime. In that case, i'd think 2.4m views is very strong!

I know nothing but I think it being an Oly year helps.

Now, I want to go watch F1. I've heard it's good!

"Sprint" doubled the rating of "Love Island" and you think that's a poor result? For those who think 2.4 million is weak viewership, let me assure you as a media researcher that it is not. Not today, with the myriad options competing for your eyeballs. The days of 25% of the country watching "Dallas" are long gone.

I'm sure Netflix is pleased with the results. And now they're planning to rush a 2024 edition, to include the Paris games, for streaming this fall.

It's a ho hum start. A nice pilot by Netflix in Hollywood.

If Obliterated was cancelled by Netflix, then anything is possible.

Obliterated premiered Nov. 30 on Netflix and landed in the streamer’s worldwide top 10 list of English-language series for six weeks. During that time, the eight-episode season (which has a running time of six hours, 50 minutes) recorded 29 million “views” — the equivalent of that many full runs of the series.
In the United States, Obliterated accumulated 2.77 billion minutes of viewing over the four weeks it spent on the top 10 streaming charts from Nielsen, which works out to about 6.76 million views.

This is a bad result because these are the two most famous athletes in track and field. Syd is less well known than Richardson because Syd is so quiet.

There's literally nowhere to go but significantly down in subsequent seasons.

That is just lazy thinking on the part of those people. Predictably, golf, tennis, cycling thought the same thing. Yet, how many are willing to invest in the production value of Drive to Survive? Sprint follows a handful of not very interesting people as opposed to the opulence and glamour of F1. La Liga is in on the act as well and will put out something documenting last season. Let’s see how that turns out. The Tour on Netflix is the only production that rivals F1.

This is great viewership. It was at #4 on Netflix as of last night, so it seems to be climbing. I've had two non-track friends reach out to me and say they really enjoyed it, therefore it passes my anecdotal layperson litmus test. Happy to see it!

It's a good thing. Taking a few eyeballs away from the American Cornhole League and the Professional Tag League. both of which are aired more than track. A few of my many friends who don't give a rip about track said they tuned in and liked. So there's that. and

I tried watching two different episodes and couldn't get past the first 10 minutes.

Very uninteresting.

Watched "Unchained- the Tour de France" all the way through the series, though. Way, way more interesting.