HBO announced last month that House of the Dragon was its best-performing original series premiere ever, with a combined viewership of little less than 10 million people across linear and streaming.
After its August 21 launch, Dragon didn’t appear in the top 10 of Nielsen’s weekly rankings for streaming movies, but this was just a result of time.
Due to the fact that Nielsen only counts streaming from Monday through Sunday, just a very small portion of the show’s premiere was included in the weekly figures.
This method resulted in the chart for the week of August 15 to August 21 only included the three hours of Eastern time zone streaming. Nevertheless, 327 million minutes of the Game of Thrones prequel were seen in that short period. In a press statement that was released concurrently with the ratings, Nielsen noted that it expects the show to “settle in as a regular over the following weeks.”
HBO stated last month that House of the Dragon was its best-performing original series premiere ever, with a combined viewership of little less than 10 million people across linear and streaming. The first look at pure streaming by a third-party assessment organization appears in today’s Nielsen slice.
The company tracks the viewing of American titles on six streaming services: HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV+, Prime Video, and Netflix, but only on a TV screen; mobile viewing is not included in this data. After a delay of over a month, the numbers are released.
Zombies starring Jamie Foxx With 957 million minutes of viewership from August 15 to August 21, Day Shift won the top spot. The number of viewing minutes for no title fell below 1 billion for the first time since April.
Although The Lord of the Rings on Amazon will compete the week after House of the Dragon, which is expected to have a high performance during the week of August 22 to 28.
The notoriously secretive software corporation is having its most prominent interaction with third-party analytics between that fantasy epic and the start of NFL Thursday Night Football.
