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Netflix Adding Top-10 Chart to Show what Everyone Else is Watching

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:24AM   
from the FOMO dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Music charts have them, Rotten Tomatoes is built on them, it's why we vote on polls, and now Netflix will show the top 10 shows for users to see and will badge shows with their top 10 number in the listings.

While the streaming video on demand (SVOD) platform has long had a trending side scroller to show what titles have received an up-tick in interest (usually titles that have just been added to the service), the new feature lets you see what people are actually watching the most.

In essence, it’s the same as the wall of top-selling titles in a book shop (if you can find one of those) or the most streamed songs chart on something like Spotify or Apple Music.

[...] Netflix director of product innovation Cameron Johnson said the company had been testing the feature in Mexico and the UK for the last six months and would now roll it out more widely around the world.

“We’re constantly looking for ways to make Netflix better. It’s why we’ve been experimenting with top-10 lists,” Mr Johnson said.

“When you watch a great movie or TV show, you share it with family and friends or talk about it at work so other people can enjoy it too. We hope these top-10 lists will help create more of these shared moments while also helping all of us find something to watch more quickly and easily.”

Netflix log post announcement.

Any improvement to the Netflix interface is welcome.

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Original Submission

• Uh, Netflix does more than streaming... Uh, Netflix does more than streaming... (Score: 3, Touché) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:42PM (1 child)

  by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:42PM (#962904) Journal

  ... I'm sure they don't want to anymore, because streaming is much better rent seeking than sending.

  And apparently Netflix played the keys of the PR machine correctly, because this really isn't big news at all, other than Netflix desperately trying to stay relevant as a creator/streaming conglomerate like the others. Because it measures what is popular on Netflix, which not only doesn't have all content on streaming available it doesn't even have all content that is hot right now.

  Page me when Picard makes their top ten, please.

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• Re:Uh, Netflix does more than streaming... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:33AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:33AM (#963356)

  Isn't Picard locked into some channel few people watch?

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