Forget Game Of Thrones: The Grand Tour Is Now The Most Illegally Downloaded Show Ever
Whatever the actual figure Amazon paid to put together the first series of The Grand Tour, it’s almost certainly huge. With that in mind, the company is no doubt rather keen to get a good return on its investment in the form of people coughing up the £79 annual charge for Amazon Prime membership.
Predictably though, online piracy is making a sizeable dent in Amazon’s ROT, and perhaps an even bigger one than anticipated.
According to figures obtained from analytics firm MUSO by Mail Online, Amazon lost a potential £3.2 million in revenue in the UK alone, just for the first episode. MUSO reckons the first episode was pirated 7.9 million times, while the second one clocked 6.4 million illegal downloads/streams.
Chris Elkins, chief commercial officer of MUSO, told Mail Online: “It is the most illegally downloaded programme ever…It has overtaken every big show, including Game Of Thrones, for the totals across different platforms.” Cripes.
What we can’t know is how these colossal figures shape up to the legitimate viewing figures. Amazon Prime does not reveal audience figures as a rule, and isn’t breaking that rule for TGT.
It did reveal however that Clarkson, Hammond and May’s new car show had the highest viewing figures for a debut show on the platform, beating previous record holder The Man In The High Castle.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I would pay for Amazon prime if it was available in my country :)
some of us either can’t afford the monthly subscription, or we simply don’t want to pay it just to watch a show that could’ve been broadcast on a TV we already have. Plus some of us also don’t want to be interrupted with ‘’buffering’’, or miss the show because of bad weather, we’d rather wait for the download to finish completely. And most of us only download torrents to watch for ourselves for free, and not selling/buying them as pirates.
Downloading it for free is still cutting into their profits, meaning in turn the shows budget gets lowered because they aren’t making as much as they should, meaning all of the people who paid for the show like responsible people, have to deal with the bad end of you guys’ laziness.
some of us either can’t afford the monthly subscription, or we simply don’t want to pay it just to watch a show that could’ve been broadcast on a TV we already have. Plus some of us also don’t want to be interrupted with ‘’buffering’’, or miss the show because of bad weather.
Lmao…. oops
I can’t afford Amazon Prime, so I’m wondering if they’ll put season 1 in a DVD case. I’d happily buy it in that format
Carthrottle makes up for 6million
How tight have you got to be to illegally watch the grand tour? It’s only £5.99/month!
Because of all of these tight bastards Amazon is missing out on £567,852,000/year
They’ll recoup it with all the tax they don’t pay, so there’s nothing to worry about.
I have no idea what you’re talking about wink wink
Rumors say that half of those downloads were from the BarBeque Castle in England
I watched it on YouTube but I could only find a decent quality in for the first one. I hope they put it on DVD coz I’m not getting Amazon Prime just for that.