‘House of the Dragon’ Just Missed Cutoff for Nielsen’s Weekly Streaming Ratings in Its Debut Week – But Early Numbers Look Huge
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer As a Sunday night series, the first episode of “House of the Dragon” was only available for streaming during the final three hours of Nielsen’s window for calculating its weekly SVOD ratings for Aug.
15-21. But in that brief period of time, the “Game of Thrones” prequel managed to be watched for 327 million minutes via HBO Max, according to the ratings currency company’s new rankings. “House of the Dragon” premiered Sunday, Aug.
21 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and was immediately available for streaming on HBO Max at that time. The Nielsen-provided figure here only counts streaming viewership, meaning anyone who watched “House of the Dragon” via HBO’s linear channel or any other platform is not included in the count.
Per Nielsen’s streaming report for the week of Aug. 15-21, which was released Thursday, “As you might notice, the premiere episode of House of the Dragon on HBO Max did not make the Top 10 lists this week.
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