Commercials, amirite?
Modern consensus is that they’re bad.
In fact, ‘not having ads’ is one of Netflix‘s better features, and now a streaming data website has found that watching Netflix instead of commercial TV saves us literally a week of our lives.
Cordcutting.com – which is all about streaming services but *sounds* like it’s all about the placenta – crunched the numbers, and came to this thrilling and not-at-all self-serving conclusion.
Their methodology is as follows:
*wastes literal years of life binging Netflix with wild abandon*
- Netflix has 75 million subscribers, who as a whole, stream 125 million hours of content every day. That works out to each user streaming 1 hour and 40 minutes worth of content per day.
- Nieslen data shows that the typical hour of TV includes 15 minutes and 38 seconds (938 seconds) of commercials.
- Cordcutting multiplied 938 by 1.6 repeating, and you get 1563.3 seconds per day, or 570,616.7 seconds per year, which is about 158.5 hours.
And that, friends, is just short of a week.
*wastes literal years of life binging Netflix with wild abandon*
YEAAHHHHH SAVED A WEEK, CHEERS MATES.
Source: Cordcutting.com.
Photo: Bob’s Burgers.
