2.75 million Canadians watched Game of Thrones’ finale on Crave

Despite being a resounding disappointment to a ton of viewers, the final episode of Game of Thrones’ final season was viewed by 2.75 million Canadians across Bell-owned Crave’s linear, on-demand and streaming platforms.

To put this number in perspective, it indicates that roughly seven percent of the entire population of Canada watched Game of Thrones through Crave.

Bell says that Game of Thrones’ “record-breaking” final season is the most-watch season of a show in “entertainment specialty and Pay TV history,” with it pulling in 2.4 million viewers on average. Bell says this data was sourced from Adobe Analytics.

Back in mid-April, Bell reported that the first episode of Game of Thrones was viewed by 2.9 million Canadians in total, though this number includes both Crave and HBO subscriptions through traditional cable.

Until season 8, watching Game of Thrones in Canada proved to be difficult, especially for cord cutters. Previously, content that was airing live on traditional HBO channels like Game of Thrones was only available to cable subscribers.

With the still somewhat recent relaunch of Crave TV as Crave, Bell added an additional $9.99 per month content subscription tier called ‘Crave + Movies + HBO’ for an additional $9.99 on top of the service’s base $9.99 subscription monthly subscription. This brings the total cost per month up to $19.98 per month.

However, the final season of Game of Thrones was not without issues, with many Crave subscribers complaining about the services on-demand and live stream quality. While Bell recently increased Crave’s resolution to 1080p across Xbox One, iOS and Android, the streaming platform experienced bitrate related problems.

Other subscribers reported the Crave app crashing or dropping the Game of Thrones stream completely in the middle of an episode. Bell said that these problems were the result of an “extremely high volume” of viewers.

Bell seemed to have mostly ironed out Crave’s Game of Thrones related issues by the time the series’ finale aired on Sunday, May 26th.

Crave is available on iOS, Android, desktop, the 4th-generation Apple TV and the Xbox One.

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