New data that measures the digital demand and social popularity of TV series has revealed the top 10 so far for 2018.
Parrot Analytics has announced the launch of its inaugural Global TV Demand Awards, and with it a list of the most popular TV shows.
The TV analytics firm Parrot Analytics says it plans to announce the winners of “the first-ever data-driven TV content awards” at the NATPE international content market in Miami on January 22, 2019.
The awards will recognise TV series that have garnered the most audience demand globally over the course of the calendar year 2018.
“The Global TV Demand Awards celebrate the most popular television shows each year, without a panel of judges or any other subjective voting body,” says Parrot Analytics CEO, Wared Seger.
The company has researched the demand for recent popular digital titles across international markets, based on the application of artificial intelligence to expressions of demand across social media, fan sites, peer-to-peer protocols and file-sharing platforms.
According to data presented by Seger at MIPCOM, the top five digital original series in the world during the first nine months of the year, and hence the current finalists, are, in alphabetical order:
13 Reasons Why
Black Mirror
Narcos
Star Trek: Discovery
Stranger Things.
The most in-demand series overall globally (as seen on TV) for the same time-period were, also not in popularity order are:
The Big Bang Theory
Game of Thrones
Grey’s Anatomy
Vikings
The Walking Dead.
NATPE president and CEO JP Bommel says: “Parrot Analytics has created a fundamentally different kind of awards program; one that is entirely data-based and reflects the cross-platform nature of our global TV industry today.”
“All of us at NATPE are excited to host the first Global TV Demand Awards presentation at our conference in Miami and look forward to the announcement of the winners in January.”
