Squid Game Is Our Biggest Launch With 111 Million Fans – Netflix Reveals

Netflix’s Squid Recreation has develop into the largest launch within the streaming service’s historical past, with 111 million followers watching the present since its debut on September 17.

The South Korean hit sequence has develop into fairly the popular culture phenomenon upon launch, simply surpassing the 82 million accounts that watched Bridgerton in that present’s first 28 days.

In accordance with CNN, the present is at the moment the #1 present on Netflix’s Prime 10 lists in 94 international locations across the globe, additionally changing into the primary South Korean present to develop into the #1 present in the US.

Whereas the viewership information is actually spectacular, it doesn’t essentially imply that 111 million Netflix accounts have watched the present from begin to end.

Netflix’s viewership metrics rely a ‘viewer’ as one who has watched not less than two minutes of the present, although that very same metric has been utilized to all of its different reveals.

Regardless, the 111 million viewers characterize greater than half of Netflix’s international subscriber base of 209 million, which is much more spectacular contemplating the present doesn’t function any main stars as reported by Each day Mail.

Minyoung Kim, Netflix’s vice chairman of content material for Korea, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand stated the present, ‘has damaged via past our wildest desires.’ In her phrases:

Once we first began investing in Korean sequence and movies in 2015, we knew we wished to make world-class tales for the core Okay-content followers throughout Asia and the world. ‘Squid Recreation’ gave [Netflix] extra confidence that our international technique goes in the precise course.

Squid Recreation was first introduced at Netflix again in September 2019, when it was titled Spherical Six.

Regardless of the present’s astronomical success, Netflix has but to disclose whether or not or not Squid Recreation might be renewed for a second season but.

If Netflix does choose it up for a second season, it could very effectively be one of many streaming companies’ most anticipated reveals up to now.