#Netflix Algorithm

[anogrishtart]

netflix recommends like "oh you're watching Voyager? I guess you'll sit down for just about any old shit then, wont you?"

[garvescope]

The One Stat Netflix Prioritizes Above All

Here’s the brutal truth Netflix doesn’t advertise, but their internal documents (leaked in 2023) confirmed: completion rate is king. Not views. Not likes. Not even watch time in minutes. If viewers don’t finish your film, the algorithm assumes something’s wrong—and it buries your title. It gets recommended less. It drops lower in search. It quietly disappears into the black hole of…

[vaishakh44-blog]

How Netflix’s Recommendation Algorithm Works

Netflix has revolutionized the way we watch movies and TV shows, and a big part of its success comes from its powerful recommendation algorithm. With over 230 million subscribers worldwide, Netflix’s ability to suggest content tailored to each user keeps viewers engaged and binge-watching for hours. But how exactly does Netflix’s recommendation algorithm work? Let’s break it down! The Science…

[sunstone-nerding]

That is an illuminating peek into the mind of the Netflix moneymaking machine...Thank you for explaining, Mr Gaiman.

Listen it wasn’t the most baffling thing in the world when Netflix canceled Lockwood and co even tho it performed well bc let’s be real, Netflix will basically cancel a show if it breathes wrong…

But do you think that Netflix actually canceled Lockwood and co bc around the time it aired they’d aquired the rights to dead boy detectives (a show with a competingly similar premise to Lockwood and co that has Neil Gaiman attached who’s had two very successful shows in the last few years with Netflix and Amazon prime)… because I do.

Like to me that’s the missing puzzle piece of what happened there

[sad-endings-suck]

“ew no, 😫 i hate that ship!”

okay?? so go cry about it. tf you want from me?

[k-wame]

Alejandro Puente as Santiago Caballero & Martín Saracho 'Max' 2019 · The Club (El Club) Netflix · Telenovela · S01.E10

[blaithnne]

Though it’s not hugely prominent, I think Lauren’s style still has that little bit of 80s grunge influence from her teen years.

[mayasdeluca]

Stefania and Danielle discussing #SaveStation19 and Netflix almost picking up the show

[grahamcarmen]

Netflix don't take this thumbnail from me [or if you must PLEASE replace it with the other RC baiting thumbnail]

[alpaca-clouds]

I am honestly wondering at times if Netflix's algorith just sucks or if it even exists.

Me: Watches basically exclusively animated shows on Netflix, with admittedly (I am sorry, I know it is garbage) some true crime that I will have running while I work. From time to time I also watch horror movies. But that's basically it.

Netflix: "Hey, how would you like this romcom series that we made?"

Me: "What in my watchlist would suggest that I would be interested in this?"

Netflix. "How about this game show?"

Me: "... No."

Netflix: "Okay, would you like to watch Harry Potter? We added it to our library?"

Me: "Netflix, I literally went out of my way to tell you explicitly that I hate everything connected to Harry Potter. I literally went through the entire library to downvote every single piece of media."

Netflix: "I am still put it on number one on your top recommended list!"

Me: "Also, Netflix, I heard there was an animated Terminator show. You know, like those other animated shows that I mainly watch on you."

Netflix: "There is?"

Me: "I will manually look for it."

Netflix: "Huh, there is."

Me: "......... why is that not on my top recommended being a Scifi animated show like all the stuff I upvoted?"

Netflix: "Would you want to watch Harry Potter? Maybe some Dating Show?!"

[leclercskiesahead]

They know me

[greaseonmymouth]

logged into Netflix for the first time in a while looking for something brain dead I can watch while I zone out before I go to bed and Netflix immediately hits me with “suggestions for tonight! Explore personalised picks” so I go yeah sure why not and the first film on the list is 2004 classic The Day After Tomorrow. I’ve never felt more called out

[monetizeme]

One of the more abstract but dire consequences of this streaming mentality is that we’ve started to treat art and culture like wallpaper. The rise of algorithmic curation and AI-generated content has sent this into overdrive: On Spotify, music is detached from its human creators and flattened into algorithmically-generated playlists with hashtag-able labels like “Lo-Fi Chillwave Anime Vibes.” Netflix has even started dictating that producers make TV shows less engaging, so that people can passively consume them as “second screen content” while scrolling on their phones.

In her recent book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist, music journalist Liz Pelly refers to this process as “Muzak-ing”—the conversion of media from discrete works of art with a discernible context and author to anonymous background noise meant for passive consumption at the gym or while relaxing at home.

“It turns out that playlists have spawned a new type of music listener, one who thinks less about the artist or album they are seeking out, and instead connects with emotions, moods and activities, where they just pick a playlist and let it roll,” Pelly wrote in an essay for The Baffler. “These algorithmically designed playlists, in other words, have seized on an audience of distracted, perhaps overworked, or anxious listeners whose stress-filled clicks now generate anesthetized, algorithmically designed playlists.”

Digital Packratting is the antithesis of this trend. It requires intentional curation, because you’re limited by the amount of free space on your media server and devices—and the amount of space in your home you’re willing to devote to this crazy endeavor. Every collection becomes deeply personal, and that’s beautiful. It reminds me of when I was in college and everyone in my dorm was sharing their iTunes music libraries on the local network. I discovered so many new artists by opening up that ugly app and simply browsing through my neighbors’ collections. I even made some new friends. Mix CDs were exchanged, and browsing through unfamiliar microgenres felt like falling down a rabbit hole into a new world.

While streaming platforms flatten music-listening into a homogenous assortment of vibes, listening to an album you’ve downloaded on Bandcamp or receiving a mix from a friend feels more like forging a connection with artists and people. As a musician, I’d much rather have people listen to my music this way. Having people download your music for free on Soulseek is still considered a badge of honor in my producer/dj circles.

I don’t expect everyone to read this and immediately go back to hoarding mp3s, nor do I think many people will abandon things like Spotify and Amazon Kindle completely. It’s not like I’m some model citizen either: I share a YouTube Premium account because the ads make me want to die, and I will admit having a weakness for the Criterion Channel. But the packrat lifestyle has shown me that other ways are possible, and that at the end of the day, the only things we can trust to always be there are the things we can hold in our hands and copy without restriction. 

[docholligay]

This is why I will never use Goodreads for recommendations. I wanted it to be old Netflix, but with books, but Netflix isn't even Netflix anymore and Goodreads is recommending me this:

Based on WHAT fucking reading preferences? You tell me, chapter and verse, what about the books I have read in the last year made you think I would want to read this.

My recent top rated books are Watership Down, The Goldfinch, The Night Watch, Drood, and Piranesi. PLEASE tell me how those are related to Love Requires Chocolate, I am desperate to know.

I really am struggling to remember when in Watership Down Fiver foresees some guy going HON HON HON BAGUETTE at a college girl. It must have been when he was foreseeing the destruction of the warren and it was just a new, exciting horror that got stuffed to the side.

I would not read this if it were gay, Goodreads. This could read, Whitney Curry is tutored by a grumpy soccer star who is THE HOTTEST BUTCH WOMAN YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE, an I would still go, 'I do not think this book is for me" On the worst day, I cannot see anyone who knows me even TANGENTIALLY recommending this book.

I am borderline insulted (okay we are pushing my love over the borderline) by the idea that this was-- actually let's go look at other recommendations

I????? Yo???? Who asks continually why every third book published in the US has to be YA fantasy?

The only good recommendation I got was Master and Commander, which I have in fact thought about reading before. Not even any shitty pulp horror? Of which I read PLENTY? I know this is less 'recommendations" and more "ads" but jesus fucking christ PRETEND BETTER.

[lascapigliata]

okay i think more shows should be comfortable inserting a solid 3 minutes tearjerking black and white interpretive dance scene in the middle of the climax of their last episode. literally if you are not comfortable with this then you shouldn't be making tv JUST my opinion

[duckchaw]

Was complaining (again) to my dad about dbda cancellation and he was like "Yeah it's been popping up a lot more in my recommended past few days". So I logged into his account and sure enough!! I find it personally interesting because we use completely different accounts and he's never watched sandman nor is dbda on his list or anything, so that means Netflix must've really decided to start promoting it??