Deadline reports that the first episode Game of Thrones’ eighth season exceeded the global demand of any other season premiere in television history. The episode even surpassed the demand for GoT’s own seventh season premiere.
TV content analytics firm, Parrot Analytics, had partnered with Guinness World Records to chart the demand and declared the episode, “Most in-demand TV premiere.”
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Parrot Analytics VP of marketing, Samuel Stadler, praised the show’s viewing metrics — which ranged in the millions upon millions — explaining:
Game of Thrones amassed a per capita global audience demand of 25.46 on 14th of April 2019, its season 8 premiere day. Compared to its per capita global demand of 24.74 on the day of its season 7 premiere, the latest and final season has premiered 2.9% higher globally. Premiere day demand has been particularly strong in the United States, United Kingdom and France.
Guinness editor-in-chief Craig Glenday also added that GoT “looks like it’s going to continue breaking records right up to the final, undoubtedly devastating episode.”
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Talking GoT statistics without nerding out must be difficult. It’s a safe bet that Stadler and Glenday must have numbered among the other massive forty-million viewers who tuned in to the GoT’s record breaking premiere.
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