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ELI5 : How do services like Netflix decide how much money their originals make? Like, if a movie was released in theaters there’s a set amount of money each person pays for a movie, but how would that number be set for streaming?

I just wanna know how it’s decided the amount of money a project gets if you’re not paying to see the project specifically.
gpt
Nobody knows for sure since Netflix is one of the most opaque streamers when it comes to viewership data. 

Presumably they have a method of assigning a value to viewership statistics that takes into account the idiosyncrasies of streaming (does a person who stops watching before the end count as a view? How many views do you count for someone who watches it multiple times or across multiple sessions?)