Great news as The Mandalorian is by far and away the most popular and in-demand original show on streaming services, with it’s stablemate The Clone Wars in second place
Third-party measurement firm Parrot Analytics has compared the launch weeks of Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max and Peacock, looking at how demand for their original shows stacked up against average demand for U.S. TV shows during that period of time.
The company found that The Mandalorian was far and away the most anticipated of all streaming shows. The Jon Favreau drama, which is set in the world of Star Wars, was made available on Disney+’s Nov. 12 launch day. Demand for the show was more than 55 times higher than the average TV series during that same week.
“The Mandalorian is in a class of its own,” says Alejandro Rojas, director of applied analytics at Parrot.
Disney has not said how many viewers The Mandalorian received, but the service did attract 10 million sign ups in its first 24 hours. It now has over 60 million global subscribers.
Congratulations, and let’s see how high season two flies when it arrives in October.
