Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Swapped Is So Popular It Just Did Something Almost No Movies Pull Off on Netflix

One of Netflix’s new movies...is so popular it pulled off the rare feat of doubling its audience n its second week of release. What is it?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Almost without fail, when any movie, show, or album gets released,
it's first week stands as its biggest. But Netflix's animated
movie Swap just broke that trend and claimed a record
in the process.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, it just recorded the best streaming week ever for
an animated Netflix original. And like you said, it wasn't
its first week of release.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yeah, and it's debut week it claimed fifteen million views.
Then it more than doubled it in week two with
almost thirty nine million views.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's the second week in a row of movie on
Netflix has seen an increase in viewership from week one
to week two. Shelly Sterren's thriller Apex just pulled it
off last week. Clearly word of.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Mouth still matters because fans have been loving both movies.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Swaps is now streaming that's direct from Hollywood.