The most viewed series in the history of platforms

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platforms

have changed the way people watch television.

Before, to enjoy a series you had to turn on the TV on the day and time chosen by the channel.

Thus, fictions like

,

,

or

accumulated 105, 84, 76 and 65 million viewers during their broadcast in the United States.

In Spain, the most watched chapter of

brought together 11.5 million people, with a screen share of 62.8%.

, for its part, reached 10.8 million.

Currently, it is more difficult to know which are the most viewed fictions on the platforms.

Each one contributes their data and prepares their rankings in a particular way, with their own metrics and ways of communicating it to the press.

For example, Netflix calculates the total number of hours viewed by viewers in the first 28 days of its release.

But still, you can get an overview of his greatest hits.

Netflix: The Squid Game

On September 17, 2021, the offices of the platform created by

did not believe it.

The premiere of a South Korean series,

, started his journey with figures that were out of the ordinary.

And the thing went to more.

Just 28 days later, the violent nine-part series written and directed by

had broken all records:

worldwide

Seong Gi-hun (

) is the protagonist of a fiction in which citizens with financial problems are chosen to participate in a macabre game in which only one of them can get out alive.

The second season is already on the way.

It could not be otherwise when the hours watched for its first batch of episodes reached 1,650 million.

Apple TV+: Ted Lasso

The comedy starring

will soon premiere its third season, backed by critical and public success, which have made it the great attraction of Apple TV +.

It premiered on August 14, 2020. Five days later, it was renewed for a second season.

And in October of that same year it was already announced that it would have a third.

Lasso is an American football manager who embarked on the adventure of directing the designs of an English football team with optimism and tenderness, something that doesn't always work out when AFC Richmond jumps to the green.

The character, who was born to announce the

on NBC, returns to show the evolution of an ensemble cast (

,

,

...) that after the final turn of the last chapter promises strong emotions.

Disney+: The Mandalorian

In the United States, the Nielsen company prepares a weekly ranking that calculates the millions of minutes consumed by

Netflix usually has a monopoly on the top positions... Except when

arrives and his successful companion, Grogu, or as he is popularly known, Baby Yoda.

Every movement of this distant relative of Gizmo becomes a

(and its corresponding adaptation to the world of

).

In the same way, each plot twist given by

and

becomes a dangerous

for those who do not see the episode in question on the same Friday that it premieres.

According to a report from

, the hit

has amassed a total of

14.5 billion minutes of viewing, of which 8.4 billion were during the eight weeks of the second season.

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Filmin: Doctor Portuondo

On November 4, 2021, Filmin proudly announced that its first original series had become the most watched series in its history.

In its first three days it managed to record more viewings than any other series in the company's history in the same period of time.

The series, created and directed by

, and starring

and

, was also very well received by critics thanks to its ability to speak without taboos about intelligent, original and risky mental health.

Amazon Prime Video: The Boys

Garth Ennis

is one of the most hooligan writers in comics.

But not even in his most lysergic dreams did he imagine that this gang of losers that he created together with cartoonist

to annihilate some outdated superheroes was going to become Amazon Prime Video's most resounding achievement.

After the successful premiere of the first three episodes of the third season on June 3, 2022, the fiction starring El Carnicero (

), El Patriota (

), Hughie (

) and Luz Estelar (

) It was renewed for a fourth season.

In just a few days, the worldwide audience of

it grew +17% compared to the second season, and +234% compared to the first.

Amazon Prime Video subscription is available here.

HBO Max: Game of Thrones

"Some things will be the same. And others... won't."

summarized

the similarities that

will have , the sixth novel of A

, with which he will put an end to

with what happened at the end of the series that adapted his prose.

And although with his farewell

and

, his

, were harshly criticized, the early morning of May 19 to 20, 2019, the broadcast of the final chapter broke several audience records: only in the United States it was seen by 19.3 million viewers that same day, an audience record for HBO, surpassing the one held by the end of

in 2002 Along the way, fiction changed the history of television, creating an unprecedented phenomenon.

The seven kingdoms and their respective families (the Starks, the Lannisters, the Targaryens...) marked the public and launched their protagonists to stardom:

,

... And beware , the data for its spin-off series

, is already scaring: its average number per episode is 29 million viewers, something that

did not reach until the seventh season.

You can subscribe to HBO Max here.

Movistar +: Iron

The second and last season of the series set in the beautiful Canary Island exceeded the figures of the first at its premiere, on February 19, 2021, quite an achievement, this being the most successful original Movistar+ series to date.

The production, created by

and starring

, the Argentine actor

and the Spanish-Swedish

, kept up the pulse throughout its broadcast, accumulating more viewers in its second batch of episodes than in the first and becoming in the most watched of the company of all that year, surpassing the other great North American and European premieres.

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