250,000? No,no,no...oh dear, it's more like in the millions.
1.Netflix has released some numbers for “The Queen's Gambit.” According to the streaming service, 62 million households watched the series within its first 28 days of availability, making it Netflix's most-watch scripted limited series ever.
2. Netflix's Bridgerton was watched by more than 82 million accounts in its first month, making the soapy period drama the service's biggest series ever, Netflix said Thursday.
And in marked contrast? Only 1-2 million people rank films and television shows on IMBD, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, which is a small percentage of that viewing audience. 82 million watched, but only 1 million reviewed it - and per the articles below? 70% were white men.
Don’t be tricked into thinking that movie-ranking sites give some kind of objective rating on how good a film is. All three of the above sites are skewed pretty heavily towards the opinions of men.
Take IMDb’s top-ranked film for example – The Shawshank Redemption. Its score of 9.3 is based on the votes of around 1.86 million IMDb users. 1.2 million of those votes came from men. IMDb does tweak its rankings to lessen the influence of particular demographics, but men often make up over 70 per cent of the voters for any film.
And it turns out that men tend to look much more favourably on films with more masculine themes, or male leading actors.
A look at the ratings for Sex and the City demonstrates how divided the voting audience on IMDb is. Over 29,000 men gave the film an average rating of 5.8, while 43,000 women came up with a score of 8.1. A straight-up averaging of the scores gives it a ranking of 7.4, but IMDb’s maths leaves it with a final score of 7.
IMDb breaks down the voting demographics for all of its films. Take a flick through them and you’ll see that men consistently rank masculine films higher than films that feature female leads or more traditionally female themes.
Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t come off much better. In 2015, Meryl Streep attacked the website for featuring way more male critics. Back then, there were 168 female critics on the websites’ approved list, and 760 men. A 2016 study from San Diego State University found that only 27 per cent of ‘top critics’ on the site were women.
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1.Netflix has released some numbers for “The Queen's Gambit.” According to the streaming service, 62 million households watched the series within its first 28 days of availability, making it Netflix's most-watch scripted limited series ever.
Source -https://www.thewrap.com/the-queens-gambit-ratings-nielsen-netflix/
2. Netflix's Bridgerton was watched by more than 82 million accounts in its first month, making the soapy period drama the service's biggest series ever, Netflix said Thursday.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/bridgerton-is-netflix-most-popular-show-yet-according-to-netflix/
And in marked contrast? Only 1-2 million people rank films and television shows on IMBD, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, which is a small percentage of that viewing audience. 82 million watched, but only 1 million reviewed it - and per the articles below? 70% were white men.
Problems with IMBD Rating System
Why you should ignore the ratings on critic sites
Don’t be tricked into thinking that movie-ranking sites give some kind of objective rating on how good a film is. All three of the above sites are skewed pretty heavily towards the opinions of men.
Take IMDb’s top-ranked film for example – The Shawshank Redemption. Its score of 9.3 is based on the votes of around 1.86 million IMDb users. 1.2 million of those votes came from men. IMDb does tweak its rankings to lessen the influence of particular demographics, but men often make up over 70 per cent of the voters for any film.
And it turns out that men tend to look much more favourably on films with more masculine themes, or male leading actors.
A look at the ratings for Sex and the City demonstrates how divided the voting audience on IMDb is. Over 29,000 men gave the film an average rating of 5.8, while 43,000 women came up with a score of 8.1. A straight-up averaging of the scores gives it a ranking of 7.4, but IMDb’s maths leaves it with a final score of 7.
IMDb breaks down the voting demographics for all of its films. Take a flick through them and you’ll see that men consistently rank masculine films higher than films that feature female leads or more traditionally female themes.
Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t come off much better. In 2015, Meryl Streep attacked the website for featuring way more male critics. Back then, there were 168 female critics on the websites’ approved list, and 760 men. A 2016 study from San Diego State University found that only 27 per cent of ‘top critics’ on the site were women.