{"id":15135,"date":"2025-07-18T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15135"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:21:09","slug":"netflix-stats-and-chill-jan-june-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15135","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Stats and Chill Jan-June 2025 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That’s right, they’ve just released the new Netflix viewing stats in a big spreadsheet<\/a> so it’s time to have a look. We are of course mainly interested in the unscripted competition stuff, but it’s worth having a look at some other things that caught our eye. The top show of the six months in terms of effective viewership<\/em> (which is just hours viewed divided by runtime) is Adolescence<\/em>, watched 144.8m times worldwide with 555.1m hours clocked up followed by series two of Squid Game<\/em> with 117.3m views and 840.3m hours to add to the 619.9m to add from the one week in December it was out gives it a grand total of about 1,469.9m hours total (give or take some rounding as Netflix numbers are only given to the nearest 100k) gives it total viewership of about 205m, series three of Squid Game<\/em> clocked up 438m hours and 71.5m views in its four days, and everyone who missed out on series 1 of Squid Game<\/em> first time round added a further 348.9m hrs and 42m views, but as Netflix Stats don’t go as far back as 2021 any total numbers gleaned are just hearsay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alright, so that’s just a dump of big numbers, what about the shows we’re interested in? As ever these numbers come with caveats – they only run from Jan 1st to June 30th so shows earlier in this sequence are going to have had longer to build up a figure, those towards the end might only have had a few weeks or days. Secondly not all shows are available worldwide which lowers their potential, but Netflix will be interested in seeing how they’ve done in certain markets so these figures are not be all and end all. Finally, the thing with “effective views” is that it’s just one number divided by another, it does not take into account people who give up on a show partway through or indeed people who rewatch a show. Got it? Good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In line with previous episodes, it’s show title in bold, date of release, hours viewed, effective viewers. 407 TV series to go through, here are the ones we’re interested in (includes some scripted that might be of interest):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is Blind Germany<\/strong> S1 – 3\/1\/25 – 41m, 5m
Single’s Inferno<\/strong> S4 – 14\/1\/25 – 128.3m, 8.2m
Celebrity Bear Hunt<\/strong> S1 – 5\/2\/25 – 26.7m, 3.7m
Love is Blind<\/strong> S8 – 14\/2\/25 – 220.1m, 13.4m
Too Hot to Handle Germany<\/strong> S2 – 18\/2\/25 – 18.8m, 3.1m
Temptation Island<\/strong> S1 – 12\/3\/25 – 99.3m, 10.6m
Love is Blind Sweden<\/strong> S2 – 13\/3\/25 – 25.3m, 2.5m
Inside<\/strong> S2 – 17\/3\/25 – 17.5m, 2.4m
Million Dollar Secret<\/strong> 26\/3\/25 – 78.6m, 11.1m
Pop the Balloon Live<\/strong> – I’m not adding them all up, the first one got 3.2m views, the last one 600k, so.
Battle Camp<\/strong> – 23\/4\/25 – 55.5m, 6.3m
The Devil’s Plan<\/strong> S2 – 6\/5\/25 – 61.3m, 3.4m
Bet<\/strong> S1 – 15\/5\/25 – 78.9m, 13.6m
Too Hot to Handle Spain<\/strong> – 13\/6\/25 – 14.6m, 2.5m
The Ultimatum: Queer Love<\/strong> S2 – 25\/6\/25 – 10.2m, 1.7m<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominated by dating shows rather but clearly Love is Blind<\/em> and Single’s Inferno<\/em> remain monsters. Towards the competition-y end, Celeb Bear Hunt<\/em> was actually quite fun and deserved better I think, but I can definitely understand why they didn’t recommission – quite far off the BARB Top 50 despite the noise I understand, and if it’s not even a hit here… . Million Dollar Secret<\/em> has been renewed and with good reason evidently, those are good Netflix second-tier reality numbers, also great to see series two of The Devil’s Plan<\/strong> doing well – the numbers are not quite<\/em> as good as the first time around (and that added another 16m hrs presumably from people who watched the second one first and\/or Genius Game<\/strong> fans evidently, taking it over 100m hrs) but that’s good engagement for quite a specifically cultural show, would rate its chances of a third. Battle Camp<\/strong> is interesting, Netflix has renewed shows with those sorts of numbers in the past but I do wonder if they were hoping for a bit more with the successful shows attached. Cusp-y erring on second chance with more cross-promo ops I reckon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at stuff from last year, there are certain shows that we belive have been cancelled – The Mole<\/strong> S2 added a further 10.5m hrs to bring up to a little over 56m hrs and about 7m views – Battle Camp<\/em>‘s at a similar level. The Circle<\/strong> isn’t on Netflix’s upcoming reality plate, S7 added a further 6.7m hrs bringing it up to just under 46m hrs which might explain that. Outlast<\/strong> which is coming back added a further 12.9m hrs taking it to 61.9m and almost 9.5m views. Love is Blind UK<\/strong> added a further 15.1m hrs come up to 156.9m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheat: Unfinished Business<\/strong> with Amanda Holden is already three times more popular than Cheat<\/strong> with Danny Dyer. And “Oh that’s quite interesting” news, series 1 of 3%<\/strong>, the drama series that we banged on about some time ago<\/a>, added another half a mill views the last six months for fans of eliminatory procedural dramas, although the other series haven’t had as much of an uplift so presumably everyone else gave up when it became more about the world than the procedure as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there anything interesting you’ve spotted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit:<\/strong> Thanks to C for pointing out the Inside<\/strong> number, this was backed by The Sidemen and is not great. The first series was also uploaded a month later (20\/4\/25) and acheived only 2.1m hrs, but that was originally uploaded to Youtube in 2024 so probably not worth reading much into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s right, they’ve just released the new Netflix viewing stats in a big spreadsheet so it’s time to have a look. We are of course mainly interested in the unscripted competition stuff, but it’s worth having a look at some other things that caught our eye. The top show of the six months in terms\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netflix-stats-and-chill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3W7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}