'Tiger King' Averages Nearly 19 Million Viewers In First 10 Days | THR News - video Dailymotion

The docuseries averages 19 million viewers over its first 10 days of release.

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00:00My name's Joe Exotic, and this is Sarge.

00:02The Netflix docu-series Tiger King has become a pop culture phenomenon.

00:06So, just how many Cool Cats and Kittens have watched?

00:08Well, according to Nielsen's SVOD content ratings, the docu-series that tells the wild

00:13tale of Joe Exotic averaged almost 19 million viewers in the United States over its first

00:1810 days after launching on March 20th, and more than 34 million people watched at least

00:23a few minutes of it.

00:24Those numbers rival one of Netflix's biggest shows, Stranger Things.

00:28We are going to end you, we are going to end your friends, and we are going to end everyone.

00:38The 19 million viewer average for Tiger King tops the 17.5 million viewer average for Season

00:432 of Stranger Things over the same period in 2017.

00:46Stranger Things Season 3 averaged 20.5 million viewers over its first 10 days in July 2019.

00:51The latter is among the highest Nielsen has recorded for a Netflix show.

00:55Tiger King also brought in more viewers on a near daily basis over its first 10 days,

00:59testifying to the viral social media spread for the crazy story of murder, madness, and mayhem.

01:04Let's break it down.

01:05Tiger King averaged a relatively paltry 280,000 viewers on its premiere day of March 20th,

01:10then more than doubled to 768,000 viewers on March 21st, and increased to 1.32 million viewers the next day.

01:19Its viewer count peaked on Sunday, March 28th, with 4.6 million viewers.

01:24This is my way of living, and nobody's going to tell me any otherwise.

01:28Netflix has said Nielsen's numbers don't reflect the true size of a show's audience on the streamer,

01:33as they measure only TV viewing, not consumption on other devices, and only in the United States.

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01:40For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.