How many times have you bypassed the opportunity to go out, opting to make it a Netflix night in the comfort of your own home instead?
With thousands of movies – including Netflix original content – at your fingertips for only $7.99 a month, it's almost too good to be true.
Well, here's another reason to cherish your Netflix account. A new Exstreamist report claims the average Netflix user avoids watching nearly 130 hours of commercials every year, by using the service instead of watching regular television. That's equivalent to the running time of about 65 movies or 177 episodes of Seinfeld, when using the service over watching TV, the way many people do.
The way Exstreamist came up with this mind-blowing data is that it considered the average Netflix subscriber, who consumes about 1.5 hours of content on the service per day — which winds up being 540 hours of streaming per year. They then took the average hour of regular broadcast television, which has 15 minutes and 30 seconds of commercials.
Sparing viewers 130 hours of commercials is pretty impressive. That 90 minutes of Netflix viewing skips the 21.3 minutes of ads you'd be hit with on TV. With the average Netflix viewer's time getting closer to the average TV viewer's time, broadcast television has responded by increasing the time of ads per hour from 14 minutes and 15 seconds to 15 minutes and 38 seconds, according to a Nielsen report from last year.
As time goes on, it will be interesting to see if that gap is closes even further.
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