Netflix’s ‘Dahmer’ builds streaming lead as ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ scores movie hit (NASDAQ:NFLX)

Netflix’s (NASDAQ:NFLX) real-life horror collection repeated its monster success in its second week streaming, although it obtained a problem from a extra lighthearted scary story from Disney (DIS).

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (NFLX) repeated atop the general eyeball chart, streaming 4.37B minutes in Nielsen’s most up-to-date weekly streaming rankings (for Sept. 26-Oct. 2).

That marks a 19% achieve over the collection’ first week, and crops Dahmer’s week into the No. 7 spot all-time.

It was pushed by one other standard-setter: The discharge of Hocus Pocus 2 on Disney+ (DIS) streamed 2.725B minutes, the most important weekly Nielsen whole ever for a streaming film – topping final Christmas’ launch of Encanto, additionally on Disney+.

These two hits outpaced the dueling fantasy collection on Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max; The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Energy (AMZN) streamed 966M minutes, whereas Home of the Dragon (WBD) streamed 907M.

Rounding out the total prime 10: No. 5, Lou (NFLX), 802M minutes; No. 6, CoComelon (NFLX), 782M minutes; No. 7, Hocus Pocus (DIS), 774M minutes; No. 8, NCIS (NFLX), 748M minutes; No. 9, Within the Darkish (NFLX), 665M minutes; and No. 10, Cobra Kai (NFLX), 653M minutes.

Acquired collection had been led by Home of the Dragon, CoComelon, NCIS and Within the Darkish, however they had been adopted by Sport of Thrones (WBD), 596M minutes, forward of three extra Netflix (NFLX) reveals: Gray’s Anatomy (585M minutes); Gilmore Ladies (502M minutes); and Supernatural (501M minutes).

Behind the original-series hits Dahmer, The Rings of Energy and Cobra Kai had been The Nice British Bake-Off (NFLX), with 559M minutes streamed; The Handmaid’s Story on Hulu (DIS) (CMCSA), with 544M minutes; and Andor (DIS), with 485M minutes.

And whereas the films record was topped by Hocus Pocus 2, Lou and Hocus Pocus, these had been adopted by Blonde (NFLX), with 603M minutes; DC League of Tremendous-Pets (WBD), with 408M minutes; and A Jazzman’s Blues (NFLX), 406M minutes.

(A reminder that Nielsen streaming rankings now incorporate viewing from six main streamers: Amazon Prime Video (AMZN), Apple TV+ (AAPL), Disney+ (DIS), HBO Max (WBD), Hulu (DIS) (CMCSA), and Netflix (NFLX).)

Final weekend introduced information that streaming continued to construct up its share of total TV utilization.