Netflix movie streaming takes back stage to TV
New data shows that users streaming TV shows on the video service have increased, while movie streaming has slowed.
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Netflix users' taste for movies versus TV are changing. According to data released by Nielsen today, users who were most likely to stream movies dropped by 6 percent from last year, while those who preferred streaming TV rose by 8 percent.
Still, overall, the video streaming service's users like to watch movies -- 47 percent of users are currently most likely to stream movies while 19 percent will stream TV. The remaining users watch both movies and TV equally.
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Netflix announced for the first time last week that it had reached a new milestone with its Watch Instantly service -- more than 1 billion hours were streamed in just one month. The record before this was 2 billion hours streamed in three months.
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