Of course, Netflix won’t confirm but Symphony Advanced Media is thrilling all media watchers by reporting that the streaming service’s super buzzy docu-series, Making a Murderer, has been watched by an average of 8.14 million viewers per episode in the 35 days following its release on Dec. 18, reports Adweek.

Symphony, which also made noise during January’s press tour when NBC announced some of its figures around other Netflix series, says that Netflix series tend to be most watched in the first two weeks after they are released. Making a Murderer appears to be an anomaly, with social buzz growing around the program week after week, and the series getting the kind of riveted media attention all networks crave.

According to Symphony, the show started off slowly, with under a quarter-million viewers watching in its early release, but it grew exponentially over the weeks.

Symphony also reports that in the same period of late December to January, Netflix’s Jessica Jones was watched by 3.7 million adults aged 18 and over, Amazon’s Man in the High Castle was viewed by 1.42 million people and Amazon’s Transparent, which launched season two in early December, was seen by 880,000.

Unsurprisingly, Symphony said that viewership of streaming services spiked during the slow holiday week of Dec. 21 - 28, and that once broadcast TV returned to originals in January, viewership of streaming services slowed.

Brief Take: As data companies increasingly crack the code, it’s going to be harder and harder for streaming services to refuse to release their metrics.

Read more: Adweek

[Image of Stephen Avery from Making a Murderer courtesy of Adweek]

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