2021 proved to be yet another year when audiences spent most of their TV watching hours on streaming platforms. As per Nielsen, in 2021, Americans spent a time period amounting to nearly 15 million years on watching streaming content! That’s a whole lot of streaming happening for sure. And these are figures just for America. Imagine the amount of hours people globally must have spent watching OTT content. It is beyond contemplation.
Last evening, Nielsen revealed comprehensive data on the most-streamed shows and movies of 2021 in the USA. For shows, the analytics platform revealed separate lists for the most-streamed original shows and the most-streamed acquired shows on streaming. Unsurprisingly, Netflix dominated both lists. 12 out of the 15 most-streamed Original shows came from Netflix’s stables. Disney+ got a sole entry in the list with WandaVision, Apple TV Plus’ Ted Lasso did the magic for the fledgling streamer, while Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale helped it to snare a spot on the top 15 most streamed original shows.
Lucifer grabbed the top spot in the most streamed shows on the originals list, followed by the Korean smash hit, Squid Game. But the win must be seen from the perspective of the number of episodes each show has. Squid Game has only nine episodes on Netflix, while Lucifer has a whopping 93 episodes.
Netflix’s dominance was absolute in the top most-streamed acquired shows of 2021. It grabbed 14 of the top 15 spots on the list. Hulu made the sole non-Netflix entry on the list for Seinfeld. Incidentally, even that is a title Netflix now licenses for its platform.
In the movies category, Disney+ proved to be far ahead of competition. It snared 11 of the top 15 spots on the list of most streamed movies in 2021. Heartwarming animated flick Luca claimed the top spot in the category.
Here are the top 45 shows and movies that claimed a place in the most-streamed titles in 2021 in the USA –
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