As promised, Netflix has released the second edition of its watch time engagement report, covering the back half of 2023. This continued transparency trend is enabled by the streamer’s shift towards advertising and its desire to woo stakeholders in that space, amid a lackluster start since the launch of the ad-supported tier in November 2022. First, on a purely organizational standpoint, Netflix has listened to some of the criticism on its first ‘What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’, now separating movies from series and adding the runtime of each title, along with a views figure, which shows the total amount of hours viewed divided by runtime. This significantly evens the field between series and films in the rankings. The…