Netflix may do its best to maintain its leading position in the streaming market, but the various actions of the SVOD platform are not unanimous! After offering a subscription at a reduced price including advertising or tightening the screw on the sharing of accounts, it is clear that the company at N rouge is also tightening its renewal criteria for the series. Over the past few months, a lot of fiction has had the rug pulled from under it, even though it seemed to have found its audience. This is particularly the case of Resident Evil, Destiny: The Winx Saga, 1899The Midnight Club, Pacific Rim, Warrior Nun, Inside Job, Qui Ment? or Snowpiercer. After being granted the lightning of the subscribers, the persons in charge for the platform ensured “never canceled a successful series”. “A lot of these shows were well thought out, but only appealed to a really small audience for very big budgets”, said Ted Sarandos (co-CEO of the streaming site). A new survey by OnlineCasinos.co.uk. would, however, contradict this idea, revealing that many canceled series garnered excellent audiences!
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Destiny: The Winx Saga, Resident Evil, Raising Dion, Archive 81… Why were these successful series really canceled by Netflix?
The data collected by OnlineCasinos.co.uk reveals that Netflix lacked transparency on the real reasons for the cancellation of some of its series. In the case of Destiny: The Winx Saga for example, we learn that it has spent seven weeks in the Top 10 most watched series since its launch, totaling in particular 190.8 million hours of viewing. Figures normally rather encouraging to order a season 2 … resident Evil, discontinued after its first and only season, spent 3 weeks in the Top 10 and recorded 173.4 million hours of viewing. Why does the platform therefore decide to put an end to these rather promising programs?
The completion rate of a series can strongly influence its future
If a series can boast of having many hours of viewing, it is also important to know the number of spectators who watch it to the end. Netflix can thus cancel a fiction that has attracted multiple subscribers if they were not curious to discover all its episodes. Because of this, they will definitely not watch its sequel. For example, we know that resident Evil had a 45% completion rate, compared to 73% for Heartstoppinga series that has been renewed for a second season.
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Here are the top of the most popular series canceled by Netflix according to this study :
1. Destiny, the Winx saga
2. resident Evil
3. How to Raise a Superhero
4. Archives 81
5. dead to me
6. First Kill
7. Hit&Run
8. The Midnight Club
9. Warrior Nun
10. On My Block
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