Amazon recently announced to great fanfare that season 2 of ‘The Rings of Power’ was going to have only female directors. A decision that on paper has nothing good or bad, but among the information that was disseminated about the Prime Video series There is a fact that has caught my attention. about his “unprecedented success“.
What the Amazon data tells us
The company itself puffed its chest recently by revealing that the first season of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ had exceeded the 100 million viewersbut now he has shared another piece of information that is much more revealing than it seems at first glance, since he has highlighted that it already adds “more than 24,000 million minutes watched“.
Let’s go by parts. The first thing is that this means that the average number of episodes that each viewer has seen does not even reach four, because in the best of cases it represents an average of about 240 minutes viewed per viewer. Considering that each chapter lasts more than an hour…
However, that is not so serious either, because it is normal for there to be viewers who start a series and do not go beyond the first episode -or the first two, let us not forget that they were released at the same time-, but there is another detail about those 24,000 million minutes that also It leaves Amazon pretty bad compared to Netflix.
As you will remember, Netflix has been using the number of hours viewed metric for quite some time now and ‘Wednesday’ has been breaking records lately. In fact, during its second week it added a whopping 411.29 million hours played. In a week. Well, those 24,000 million minutes in total of ‘The Rings of Power’ are equivalent to 400 million hours.
In fact, those 24,000 million minutes that Amazon highlights so much They wouldn’t even allow ‘The Rings of Power’ to sneak into Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched English-language series ever. The tenth position is currently occupied by the second season of ’13 Reasons Why’ with 496.12 million hours. And that in only 28 days, which with the Amazon series is likely to be much longer
All this does not mean that it can really be true that ‘The rings of power’ has been a tremendous success on Amazon -although with the nuance of to what extent it makes up for being the most expensive series of all time-, but So it is Prime Video that comes out very badly in the comparisonsmaking it clear that it still has a long way to go to play in the same league as Netflix.
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