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 dont even bother watching it illegaly cause i cant seem to find an episode where the audio and video are synced together ,it like watching a japanese edition of the grand tour
Should have made it available worldwide upon release… only have themselves to blame really
The thumbnail gave me nightmares…
I personally think that it isn’t so much of a lose because the people that pirated probably wound’t pay to watch it they just wouldn’t watch it at all if it wasn’t for illegal downloading
People, if you watch it ilegally at least shut up about it, don’t try to justify it…
So I’ve watched all the episodes on YouTube but I’ve also watched quite a few MLP episodes online. So both shows actually watch I watch online.
cancels amazon prime membership
You miserable cheap bastards. I love this show to the bottom of my heart, and it pisses me off when I see that SO MANY decides to go watch it on some crappy website for free, and oh. ILLEGALLY.. People need to understand that you’re basically stealing money from the show, tightening the budget which will make it less awesome. You’re better than this guys..
what do they expect when half the world can’t access the platform they air the show on? specially after all the publicity and great reviews, people want to see the show and many of us can’t even get a subscription to do it legally. Personally i am still waiting but i get why people do it.
sorry chaps, i’m one of them