Netflix binge watching – the top 10 shows, where Hong Kong ranks for bingeing ... and what’s going on in Canada?
Streaming giant reveals the series subscribers watch in their entirety within 24 hours of release, and where the biggest binge watchers are – showing Hong Kong is only fifth in East Asia
How quickly do you consume full seasons of Netflix series?
If you binge watch within 24 hours of their (typical) Friday release, you’re one of 8.4 million subscribers the streaming giant has dubbed “binge racers”, so desperate to be in the know – and ahead of the game on social media – that you’ll spend as much as 13 of those hours in front of a screen. Most do it only once, but one hardy US subscriber has binge-raced through 36 series this year alone.
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The notoriously secretive Netflix is revealing a bit of insight on the preferences and make-up of those superfans: In both the US and globally, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life and Fuller House – revivals of popular broadcast series – were the two most frequently binge-raced.
But the list diverges from there to a range of different genres: Ashton Kutcher sitcom The Ranch, Marvel’s The Defenders and manga series The Seven Deadly Sins were next on the list.
Hong Kong has the world’s highest percentage of binge racers for the 10-episode series Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories, which is based on the Japanese manga Shinya Shokudo. However, overall the city trails neighbours Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Taiwan for binge racing.
