Game of Thrones has as many Viewers as The Walking Dead

[ATearInMyEye]

I've seen Walking Dead do 13 million viewers and more while Game of Thrones is doing around 7 million (which is crazy for a subscription channel)

Bro I work for a telecom company and they dont want us to credit money,so we throw premiums(hbo,showtime stars) free for 3 or 6 months for no cost and it just rolls off their account.They may not even have a level of subscription for Nat Geo wild,but they will have a promo for hbo free for 12 months on their account.

 

[Grand Conde]

I watched Season 1 of TWD and havent checked back ever since and prolly never will. Show was boring with bad acting

+1. Nothing worse than a show were the writers are so bad they get their own characters to make nonsensical decisions to advance the plot.

 

[Jello Biafra]

The Walking Dead on the other hand, started as that, but it has been trolling it's audience for seasons now. It started to wear off on a lot of viewers. Me personally, I've barely watched this last season and none of the episodes at the end. I don't even care to. True Detective actually put the nail in the TWD's coffin for me.

TWD has seen its audience grow every season with the fourth season bringing in ridiculously high ratings. I think it even beat Sunday night Football on NBC one week.
Us online nerds may shyt on TWD and be overly critical of every plot point but the rest of the world still loves the show.

Game of Thrones is fukking incredible so this is no surprise but how are they calculating this though? I've seen Walking Dead do 13 million viewers and more while Game of Thrones is doing around 7 million (which is crazy for a subscription channel)

They are using gross numbers. So while TWD gets more viewers for its first run episodes on the night of, GOT makes up for it when you factor in the repeat airings and DVR viewing and stuff like that.
They updated the story to add that using their own calculations TWD ended up averaging 28 million weekly viewers during its 4th season.

 

[bigesco]

+1. Nothing worse than a show were the writers are so bad they get their own characters to make nonsensical decisions to advance the plot.

Definitely a snoozefest breh

 

[hashmander]

[UPDATE: At the time this story was published, The Walking Dead's most comparable rating was not available. With replays, on-demand and TV Everywhere views added to live-plus-7 returns, the series' fourth season averaged just north of 28 million weekly viewers.]

And look at The Walking Dead. TV's gold standard, thanks to its dominance among adults 18-49 (peripheral info to ad-free HBO), currently ranks as cable's most watched television series. The recent season averaged 18.4 million viewers in live-plus-7, placing another record well within Game of Thrones' sights.

Game of Thrones' season-to-season bump, with two episodes remaining, stands at 25 percent. Its unique and thus-far unflappable trajectory most closely parallels that of The Walking Dead. So it seems fitting that the pair head into their respective fifth seasons so closely aligned.

It's difficult -- and, in fact, quite problematic -- to compare HBO to any network other than itself. The HBO Go app, aggressive replays over multiple sisters (HBO2, HBO Latino) and the limiting nature of pay cable create a very different standard for measurement. (Parent company Time Warner most recently put the domestic subscriber count at 43 million, a hair shy of Netflix.)

But this latest growth for Game of Thrones pushes it into an intimate pantheon of mega-hits that begs comparisons.