{"id":428113,"date":"2026-01-23T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428113\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:32:11","slug":"netflix-data-reveals-hits-misses-in-original-feature-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428113\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Data Reveals Hits, Misses In Original Feature Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Netflix\u2019s biannual What We Watched report for the second half of 2025 is out now, and it paints a mixed picture of the state of the platform\u2019s original animation feature output.<\/p>\n

Overall, 27 of the top 100 films watched on Netflix during the second half of 2025 were animated, but only a few were Netflix Originals, and among those, not all were original Netflix IPs.<\/p>\n

Below, we take a look at the great, the good, the bad, and the ugly from the six-month data dump.<\/p>\n

The Great<\/p>\n

KPop Demon Hunters took the world by storm, rewriting the streamer\u2019s record book and becoming the most-watched title over a six-month period, with 482 million views. There\u2019s not much more we can say about this film that we haven\u2019t already said<\/a>, so we won\u2019t waste your time here.<\/p>\n

Impressively, though, the film\u2019s lyric videos also scored highly on Netflix\u2019s series list (we\u2019ll publish a separate article on that list later), ranking as the 27th most-watched program on the platform over the same six-month period, with 31.9 million views.<\/p>\n

\"KPop
\nThe Good<\/p>\n

Although a hit with critics and audiences who saw it, In Your Dreams <\/a>didn\u2019t quite blow up the way Netflix might have hoped, given how aggressively the film was promoted ahead of its November 14 release. That said, the family-friendly feature still ranked as the 28th most-watched film of the period, despite being available for only a month and a half of the tracked window.<\/p>\n

In Your Dreams pulled in 47.3 million views and 71.7 million viewing hours. The film has also been a critical success and a regular contender throughout this awards season, important metrics as Netflix continues to build its reputation as a platform capable of launching original, culturally relevant properties.<\/p>\n

\"In
\nThe Bad<\/p>\n

In 2021, Netflix reportedly paid half a billion dollars for the rights to the full Roald Dahl library. It took four years, but the streamer finally released its first film under the deal, and things could have gone better. The Twits <\/a>received middling-to-poor reviews and ranked 71st among the most-watched films on the platform over the last six months. Despite being available globally, it accumulated just 22 million views, performing on par with regionally restricted licensed titles like The Emoji Movie and Shrek Forever After. That\u2019s certainly not the kind of return on investment Netflix would have hoped for when it first made the library deal.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe Ugly<\/p>\n

Despite the attention it received within the industry and across the online animation community, Genndy Tartakovsky\u2019s Fixed <\/a>proved to be a disaster for Netflix. Released on August 13, the globally available film ranked 614th on the platform in the second half of last year, one spot below My Little Pony: A New Generation and only 9 spots ahead of Nimona, which was released 2 years ago.<\/p>\n

Granted, Fixed is aimed at a much more specific audience than most of the animated titles Netflix distributes, but with only 5.2 million views over its first four months, the film is a commercial flop that could have painful consequences for future plans in the adult animated feature space.<\/p>\n

\"Fixed
\nThe Acquisitions<\/p>\n

As has long been the case, Netflix relies heavily on animated films and franchises from outside sources. Of the 27 animated films in Netflix\u2019s top 100 most-watched titles over the last six months, all but five were licensed.<\/p>\n

Below is a complete list of animated titles pulled from the streamer\u2019s top 100 most-watched films from the second half of 2025, along with their rankings for the period.<\/p>\n

* Hybrid titles were not included.<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 KPop Demon Hunters
23 \u2013 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
26 \u2013 Despicable Me 3
28 \u2013 In Your Dreams
29 \u2013 Sing
32 \u2013 Shrek
35 \u2013 PAW Patrol: The Movie
36 \u2013 Despicable Me 4
38 \u2013 Minions
39 \u2013 The Secret Life of Pets
40 \u2013 Despicable Me 2
41 \u2013 Shrek 2
43 \u2013 Megamind
44 \u2013 That Christmas
45 \u2013 Home
47 \u2013 The Super Mario Bros. Movie
48 \u2013 Dr. Seuss\u2019 The Grinch
51 \u2013 Despicable Me
59 \u2013 Shrek Forever After
62 \u2013 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
67 \u2013 The Emoji Movie
71 \u2013 The Twits
72 \u2013 Sing: Thriller
79 \u2013 Dr. Seuss\u2019 The Lorax
90 \u2013 The Boss Baby
98 \u2013 Plankton: The Movie
100 \u2013 Shrek the Third<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s biannual What We Watched report for the second half of 2025 is out now, and it paints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-428113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}