I updated Sergio’s below item with most of this, but figured I should give it a post entirely of its own, given how long it is.
I reached out to Netflix to ask about how they categorize their titles as they come in. I haven’t received a reply yet, but I did a little digging to find past posts on Netflix’s tech blog, as well as interviews Netflix engineer executives have given in which they were asked about categorization of their films, and this is what I learned about their process.
In short… from a Wired magazine interview, Netflix says it has over 40 people "hand-tagging" TV shows and movies for them as they come in. These are typically freelancers who are TV and…
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