Streaming Ratings: AMC Shows ‘Dark Winds,’ ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Get Netflix Boost

AMC made a bet earlier this year that licensing a number of its shows to Netflix would help them find more viewers. That bet appears to have paid off. Two AMC shows, Dark Winds and A Discovery of Witches, are among the top 10 streaming titles for the week of Aug. 19-25. They were added [...]

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made a bet earlier this year that licensing a number of its shows to Netflix would help them find more viewers. That bet appears to have paid off. Two AMC shows, and , are among the top 10 streaming titles for the week of Aug.

19-25. They were added to Netflix at the beginning of that week as struck in July to place about a dozen AMC shows on the service, complete with branding as the “AMC Collection.” (The shows will be available for 12 months.



) It’s not new territory for AMC, which partially credited Netflix for a huge spike in ratings for s final season and has also licensed and , among others, to the streamer in the past. drew 929 million minutes of viewing for the week, good for fourth place overall. placed seventh with 849 million minutes.

finished first among all titles for the , racking up 1.43 billion minutes of watch time on Hulu and Netflix. The only other title to crack 1 billion minutes was Netflix’s movie (1.

13 billion), which fell by just 15 percent week to week. Original series had a bit of a down week. remained in first on that list but fell by nearly half, from 1.

39 billion minutes to 715 million. also slipped by about 16 percent to 662 million minutes. The top newcomer was the Mexican drama with 554 million minutes on Netflix.

In the movie rankings, Kevin Costner’s debuted on Max with a fairly modest 223 million minutes of viewing. Nielsen’s cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.

S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Aug.

19-25, 2024, are below. 1. (Hulu/Netflix), 1.

43 billion minutes viewed 2. (2024) (Netflix), 1.13 billion 3.

(Disney+), 967 million 4. (Netflix), 929 million 5. (Hulu), 879 million 6.

(Hulu/Netflix), 874 million 7. (Netflix), 849 million 8. (Netflix), 715 million 9.

(Netflix/Paramount+), 675 million 10. (2023) (Netflix), 673 million 1. , 715 million minutes 2.

(Netflix), 662 million 3. (Netflix), 616 million 4. (2024) (Netflix), 554 million 5.

(Hulu/Netflix/Peacock), 484 million 6. (Netflix), 459 million 7. (Netflix), 429 million 8.

(Netflix/Paramount+), 405 million 9. (Hulu), 369 million 10. (Paramount+), 288 million 1.

, 1.43 billion minutes 2. , 967 million 3.

, 929 million 4. , 879 million 5. , 874 million 6.

, 849 million 7. , 675 million 8. (Netflix/Paramount+), 639 million 9.

(Hulu/Peacock), 619 million 10. (Hulu/Peacock), 597 million 1. , 1.

13 billion minutes 2. , 673 million 3. (Prime Video), 339 million 4.

(Max), 310 million 5. (Netflix), 278 million 6. (Max), 223 million 7.

(Netflix), 220 million 8. (2024) (Netflix), 211 million 9. (Disney+), 204 million 10.

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