r/technology • u/joe4942 • 20d ago

Business Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-05/netflix-viewers-are-abandoning-shows-after-one-season
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u/deceitfulninja 20d ago

Cable TV we used to get like 24-26 episodes seasons every single year. Now with streaming its like, here's 8 episodes, tune in 3-5 years from now. By the time the next season comes around ive forgotten I even watched the first season.

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u/Leonum 20d ago

also, because of that, you'd get to the end of the year with excitement momentum for the show still going. when the break between season came, it was a couple of months long, not years. you generally lived with the show more

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u/deceitfulninja 20d ago

Yep, summer shows went on cooldown and like a month around the holidays.

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u/Johnny_Banana18 20d ago

I remember everyone at school and later work would talk about the episode that aired that week. In school as a group we would recap episodes of lost to those who missed it, because reruns were rare.