Once more for those who in back who are slow when it comes to math.
📊 DAYS Math, Made Simple
TL;DR: DAYS is cheap to make, heavily watched, and brings in more value per minute than it costs. Peacock keeps it because the economics quietly work.
People talk about DAYS like it lives or dies by “Top 10 tiles,” but that’s not the real story. The show runs on about $25M a year for 169–250 episodes — roughly $100K each. With 3.1 billion minutes streamed annually, each episode ends up with around 500,000 full‑episode‑equivalent views. It costs about $100,000 per episode for roughly 500,000 streams. That’s about 20 cents per episode at the production-cost level.
On Peacock’s side, 46M subscribers and $2B in quarterly revenue works out to about $14.49 per subscriber per month. A loyal DAYS viewer watching 21 episodes a month (about 840 minutes) effectively generates 1.3–2 cents per minute in revenue.
Thus, if Peacock makes 2 cents per minute, while Days production costs 1 cent per minute; that is almost 100% profit margin. That’s the whole point. So the next you catastrophize about DAYS is failing because you don't like the story direction, know that there no correlation between those two factors
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j swift ·
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