Squid Game Crushes Game of Thrones’ Content on YouTube With 17 Billion Views

Netflix’s South Korean sensation Squid Game has eclipsed HBO’s juggernaut Game of Thrones on YouTube, attracting a staggering 17 billion views throughout a spectrum of long- and short-form movies, in keeping with the content material analytics agency Vobile. The viewership comes from quite a few kinds of video content material, together with official trailers and clips from the sequence, fan recreations of iconic moments, real-world challenges impressed by the plot, and even narration of user-generated video video games based mostly on the property (discovered on providers like Roblox), stories ‘Variety’.Also Read – Kit Harrington Feels ‘A Bit of Pain’ With Game of Thrones Prequel – House Of The Dragons, Here’s Why “In 10 years looking at YouTube, we’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Jared Naylor, Vobile’s vice chairman for viewers improvement, informed ‘Variety’. The firm identifies and analyses how mental property is shared and co-opted within the digital area. Also Read – Reports: Squid Game Smartphone App Is Infecting Devices With Malware, Be Aware | Watch Video Vobile estimates that the 17 billion views have come from 129,000 uploaded movies, together with conventional long-form YouTube clips and their recently-launched TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts. Those movies additionally depend 533 million engagements (likes, dislikes and feedback). Also Read – Squid Game Creator Says ‘Comics’ Are His Inspiration Behind The Mass Trending Netflix Series, Read on

Compared with these phenomenal numbers, ‘Game of Thrones’, which had a decade to amass its fan military versus the roughly eight weeks ‘Squid Game’ has been in play, attracted 16.9 billion views from 420,000 uploaded movies, and an estimated 233 million engagements.