The most popular Netflix, Amazon and Hulu shows of 2016
While CBS, NBC, Fox, FX and other traditional networks are thrilled to share viewing figures when one of their shows performs well, the streaming services keep their cards much closer to the vest. That was the case once again in 2016, but last week, media insight and measurement company SymphonyAM, using independent data, put together a list of the 25 most-watched streaming shows of last year.
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As Newsweek explains, SymphonyAM uses a metric called “L35” to determine the popularity of a show, which is the engagement that those shows attract on their streaming platform of choice in the first 35 days of availability.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Netflix dominated the list. 21 of the 25 shows are Netflix originals, while Hulu and Amazon Prime Video only managed to get two shows a piece to rank. That said, SymphonyAM did warn that Amazon’s The Grand Tour likely would have made the top 10, but the L35 metric wasn’t stable yet.
Without further ado, here are the top 25 streaming-only TV shows of 2016 according to SymphonyAM’s L35 metric (and originally shared by Newsweek at the beginning of January):
Orange Is the New Black: Season 4 — 23 million viewers
Stranger Things — 21.7 million viewers
Fuller House — 21.5 million viewers
Marvel’s Luke Cage — 12.1 million viewers
Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 2 — 11.6 million viewers
House of Cards: Season 4 — 8.8 million viewers
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 2 — 8.4 million viewers
The Ranch — 5.8 million viewers
11.22.63 — 5.3 million viewers
Amanda Knox — 4.96 million viewers
The Get Down — 4.91 million viewers
Gracie and Frankie: Season 2 — 4.5 million viewers
Love — 4 million viewers
Narcos: Season 2 — 3.8 million viewers
Black Mirror: Season 3 — 3.7 million viewers
The Crown — 3.5 million viewers
Bloodline: Season 2 — 3.3 million viewers
Longmire: Season 5 — 3.2 million viewers
Chelsea Does — 2.7 million viewers
The Path — 2.06 million viewers
Flaked — 2.04 million viewers
Bojack Horseman: Season 3 — 2 million viewers
Marco Polo: Season 2 — 1.9 million viewers
Goliath — 1.8 million viewers
Bosch: Season 2 — 1.6 million viewers
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