Unlike traditional media outlets, Netflix does not fixate on categories of age, gender or race. Netflix places more emphasis on whether a show is uplifting, somber or redemptive than on genre or who the director is. But what do these new metrics say about comedy that the rest of us cannot see? It won’t release audience information to the news media or comics, who would love to know who watches their specials to plan tours. Mr. Praw said one of the many misconceptions he brought to Netflix was that there would be no overlap between fans of, say, Gabriel Iglesias’s broad comedy and Maria Bamford’s more cerebral standup.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2018 16:18 UTC