Update on viewership for WWE Raw’s Netflix premiere
Some new viewership information is now available regarding WWE Raw’s Netflix premiere episode.
Per data published by Netflix, the episode was viewed 5,900,000 times globally from January 6-12, which means an additional one million views were added after the initial two-day viewership number that WWE and Netflix touted. The three-hour episode generated a total of 17,700,000 hours viewed.
Netflix defines views as “total view hours for the program divided by the runtime.”
Raw ranked fourth among English-language TV shows on Netflix for the week, trailing “Missing You,” (15,200,000 views), “American Primeval” (10,400,000 views), and the docuseries “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action” (7,700,000 views).
Season two of “Squid Game” — which is ranked as a non-English language show — was the top TV program on Netflix with 26,300,000 views. “The Breakthrough” also had 10,600,000 views and “Squid Game” season one had 8,700,000 views in the non-English language category.
The Raw premiere ranked as a top 10 show in 26 different countries.
In their press release last week, WWE and Netflix stated that — in the United States — the premiere averaged 2.6 million households in live and same-day viewing.
Viewership data for Raw’s second episode on Netflix — which took place from San Jose, California last night — is not available yet.
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