RevengencerAlf t1_it5dr57 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 1:32 AM

Reply to comment by ChefBoyAreWeFucked in Crossing guard disturbed by Halloween decoration at his post in Marblehead. by bluesmom913

Those are by definition not gross sales. It makes sense to combine them with the actual sales from CD as well as other sources of royalty for an overall metric of apparent success, and that's exactly what they do now when they chart songs and albums, but it's not "gross" anything.

When a movie "grosses" $100M in a weekend, it literally means people went and spent $100M on tickets to see that movie. Straight up. It's unfortunately just a term people repeat where it applies because they've heard it used in a close context but don't understands why it doesn't apply. Pedantic I know but I lack the self control to ignore it.

ChefBoyAreWeFucked t1_it5k7bs wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:18 AM

What would you call the amount of money a company is paid by another entity for their product?

RevengencerAlf t1_it5m7yt wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:34 AM

Revenue.

The word you're actually looking for is revenue.

Money that comes from things like royalties and usage agreements are generally not sales and certainly not gross sales.

Of course all this is an irrelevant digression from the fact that "stranger things" doesn't "gross" anything because it is streamed, universally, because a view of it generates no discrete payment or revenue of any kind. The best you can do is look at its share of viewing hours which is not "grossing" anything and estimate how much it plays a role in the overall value proposition for the average netflix subscriber.