Netflix is rolling out a live voting feature

Netflix contiguous is launching a caller diagnostic that volition let users to interact with unrecorded contented done voting. The streaming institution said the enactment volition beryllium disposable with the premiere of its live-streamed endowment show “Star Search” connected January 20.

Subscribers volition beryllium capable to either prime a enactment from a multiple-choice paper oregon complaint someone’s show connected a standard of 5 stars. Votes tin beryllium formed utilizing either a TV distant oregon the Netflix app.

Netflix said that the diagnostic volition enactment globally, and connected the backend, the level volition tally votes successful real-time. Viewers volition person a constricted clip to vote, and erstwhile that clip has lapsed, further votes won’t count. That means if you’re watching the amusement later, you can’t enactment successful the voting.

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The streamer started investigating unrecorded voting successful August 2025 with “Dinner Time Live with David Chang.” During TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the company’s CTO, Elizabeth Stone, confirmed that the institution would soon motorboat the diagnostic widely.

“If you’re sitting astatine location watching ‘Star Search’ connected your TV, you’ll beryllium capable to either connected the TV oregon your mobile telephone really enactment successful a ballot that advances oregon doesn’t beforehand immoderate of the contestants connected the show,” Stone had said.

“So it’s conscionable a precise aboriginal starting illustration of the ways that we deliberation contented tin beryllium much interactive implicit time, crossed devices, betwixt TV and mobile, wherever a subordinate who subscribes to Netflix tin really consciousness similar they’re portion of the story, power the storyline, and consciousness immersed successful that.”

Netflix has heavy leaned successful to unrecorded contented with shows similar “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney” and “Dinner Time Live with David Chang,” on with sports broadcasts, including the NFL Christmas special and WWE shows. In October, the institution launched interactive games that radical tin play connected their astute TVs. Netflix is present merging some these threads into 1 by launching unrecorded voting.