A drop from the first episode was always going to happen with Raw, as the article said. I wasn’t expecting a 49% drop in two weeks though.
Alas, I hate how Netflix measures viewership. It’s total time viewed divided by air time. It’s not a particularly accurate way to measure how many people actually watched.
Like 9 people could watch one hour of a three hour show but they would account for the same amount of viewership as three people who watched all three hours as the two groups each combined to watch 9 total hours. But one group had 9 viewers while the other had 3.
Meanwhile that also means repeat viewers account for more viewed hours, which would make the show look like it was watched by more people than it really was. One person could watch the show twice for 6 hours and account for the same viewership as 6 people who watched one hour.
Though I guess it’s not all too dissimilar from how Nielsen does it even if the formula is different as their formula is an average of the number of people who are watching per minute rather than a measure of how many unique viewers there were for the entire broadcast.
Like If I only watch the first hour of Dynamite and one of y’all only watch the second hour then we collectively only count as one viewer instead of two.
Either way, it’s not telling us how many unique viewers actually watched the show.
But WWE got paid HUGE, and when it comes to time for Netflix to pick up an option or re-sign WWE, them dropping three million viewers after two weeks isn’t going to mean shyt several years down the road.