I just got clarification. Netflix is counting VIEWED minutes, not
minutes of content. So if a 3 hour movie is never watched during the
time period they do not count it. If a 2 hour movie is watched 10,000
times and it is captioned, they count it as 20,000 hours of VIEWED
captioned content.
Another example: if a 2 hour movie is watched 10,000 times and it is
captioned, they count it as 20,000 hours of VIEWED captioned content.
Likewise, if a 2 hour movie is watched 2 times and it is NOT
captioned, they count it as 4 hours of VIEWED NON-captioned content.
My method would say 50% of the 2 movies are captioned, their method
would say 99.98% of the VIEWED MINUTES of the 2 movies are captioned.
This is VERY misleading.
Also it is very convenient that this method of counting, unlike my
method, is NOT available with their API so there is no hard data to
PROVE that they are not just “making it up.”