Watching Netflix cuts 6 days of adverts from your life a year

75 million people subscribe to the streaming service

Orange is the New Black actors Natasha Lyonne and Selenis Leyva appear on stage at a panel discussion in July 2015 (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Going from watching Netflix to normal TV can be a difficult experience; not only do you have to wait for a show to start at its designated time but there (are adverts and lots of them).

Despite the rumours, Netflix has remained adamant about adverts never featuring on the service, something of a relief to subscribers.

According to data from streaming data website CordCutting.com, the average Netflix user saves themselves from over six days of adverts per year (or 158.5 hours) in the US.

While the streaming service is notoriously tight-lipped when revealing streaming numbers for specific shows, the stats were worked out with a few simple equations.

Recent, Netflix announced they had over 75 million subscribers mark. Combine this with CEO Reed Hastings’ revelation that 125 million hours of film and TV are streamed every day, it turns out subscribers stream on average around one hour 40 minutes per day.

Typically, cable channels in the US show 15 minutes and 38 seconds of commercials per hour (on Channel 4, an hour-long slot has around 13/14 minutes of adverts).

Combine these numbers and the average Netflix subscriber saves 158.5 hours of their life by avoiding adverts.

Of course, people wouldn’t be exclusively watching cable TV if they weren’t on Netflix, but it’s a good indication of just how much of our TV watching time is filled with adverts.

In other Netflix news, the creator of Misfits has landed a new drama on the streaming service.