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- Netflix released its most detailed viewership report on Tuesday.
- Thousands of titles fall in the platform's least-viewed category with about 100,000 hours watched.
- Viewers watched 100 billion hours of Netflix total between January and June 2023.
Netflix released its first report detailing which shows people are binging — and which ones they aren't — on Tuesday.
The streaming giant announced its plans to publish "What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report" with data on over 18,000 titles twice a year. The first report covers the content viewed between January and June 2023.
"Over the last 16 years of streaming one constant has been people asking for more viewership data," Netflix co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos said, according to Bloomberg.
Movies and shows on the platform have been viewed for more than 100 billion hours in total. Top performers like the thriller series "The Night Agent" raked in over 812 million hours viewed for one season.
But, there were still thousands of titles with 100,000 hours viewed or less.
The report only includes those watched for over 50,000 hours, but Netflix rounded to the nearest 100,000. It's unclear exactly how many of the roughly 3,800 titles exceed or fall short of the figure.
Of the least-watched titles, most of them aren't available to stream globally. And, some of them, like "Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square," are holiday movies that might get more viewership in the latter half of the year.
Cult classics of the past like "Basic Instinct" and two "Rambo" movies were among the least-viewed titles while the most recent "Rambo" installment from 2019 pulled in about 6.3 million hours viewed, according to the report.
In the report, Netflix notes a release date for its original movies and shows. It did not say how long each piece of licensed content remained available to watch on the service during the time frame studied.
Netflix users slammed the streaming platform in the early months of 2023 over its attempt to crack down on password-sharing. The company struggled with subscriber losses in 2022, but its tough stance on passwords boosted subscriptions in 2023.
A representative for Netflix didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.