2.75 million Canadians watched Game of Thrones' finale on Crave

A lot of Canadians watched Game of Thrones' disappointing final episode with Bell'due south streaming service

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Despite being a resounding disappointment to virtually viewers, the series finale of Game of Thrones was viewed by ii.75 one thousand thousand Canadians across Bell'south Crave "linear, on-demand and streaming platforms."

To put this number in perspective, roughly seven per centum of the entire population of Canada watched the final episode of Game of Thrones through Crave.

Bell says that Game of Thrones' "record-breaking" last season is the most-watched season in "entertainment specialty and Pay TV history," with the show pulling in 2.4 million viewers on boilerplate. Bell states that this information was sourced from Adobe Analytics.

Back in mid-April, Bong reported that the first episode of Game of Thrones season 8 was viewed by two.ix million Canadians in total, though this number includes both Crave and HBO subscriptions through traditional cable.

Until season viii, watching Game of Thrones in Canada proved to be difficult, especially for string cutters. Previously, content airing live on traditional HBO channels, like Game of Thrones, for instance, was exclusively available to cable subscribers. Moreover, Bell's at present-defunct TMN Get streaming app could only exist used past HBO cable subscribers. Further, neither HBO Go nor HBO Now is officially available in Canada, though information technology is possible to subscribe to the latter service in Canada with a few extra steps.

With the still somewhat recent relaunch of CraveTV as Crave, Bong added an additional $9.99 CAD per calendar month subscription tier called 'Crave + Movies + HBO' for an additional $9.99 on acme of the service's base $9.99 monthly fee. This brings the full cost per month upwards to $nineteen.98 per month for access to electric current HBO content.

The final season of Game of Thrones was not without bug, with many Crave subscribers lament about the platform's on-demand and alive stream quality when watching season 8. While Bell recently increased Crave's resolution to 1080p across Xbox One, iOS and Android, the platform experienced bitrate-related bug when streaming Game of Thrones flavor 8.

Subscribers reported the Require app crashing or dropping the Television receiver show'south stream in the eye of episodes. In a argument to MobileSyrup, Bell said these problems were the result of an "extremely loftier volume" of viewers.

Bell seemed to have more often than not ironed out Crave's Game of Thrones related issues by the time the series' finale aired on Sunday, May 26th.

Crave is bachelor on iOS, Android, desktop, the 4th-generation Apple tree Tv and the Xbox One.