i am actually very sure netflix (and probably by extension the rest) is making up their numbers, like absolutely 100% would put money on it. like, they literally got into the news constantly by saying "our [random movie i have never heard anyone talk about. and i talk to movie people CONSTANTLY] is the most-streamed movie ever!" with no fact-checking required (or even possible). like literally "trust me bro". i didn't think about what would happen if they ever had to reveal that info for the sake of paying out royalties though...
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in reply to @surasshu's post:
didn't netflix switch to basically made up fake viewer numbers at some point recently instead of something sensible like watch minutes
I was going to make a goof reply with some extremely bullshit metric they probably count, but on further investigation I would not be surprised if they "Count every time a trailer autoplayed for a movie because you hovered over it for 2 seconds as a view" as a metric.
The movie Spenser Confidential is a running joke on Trashfuture for exactly this reason. The fraud is already publically known in a way. The article claims Netflix changed the definition of 1 view from 70% watched to 2 minutes watched!