Published 21:56 IST, August 19th 2019
PM Modi's Man Vs Wild episode beats the Super Bowl on trending charts, here's how impressive this is
The ‘Man vs Wild’ episode featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned out to be a record-breaking collaboration. The Bear Grylls-hosted show has gone on to become the highest-trending TV event in the world, achieving 3.6 billion Twitter impressions.
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‘Man vs Wild’ episode featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned out to be a record-breaking collaboration. Bear Grylls-hosted show has gone on to become highest-trending TV event in world, achieving 3.6 billion Twitter impressions. magnitude of this statistic can be gauged by fact that it was more than extremely popular American football tournament Super Bowl earlier this year.
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Bear Grylls exulted over special episode going on to become most trending televised event, writing that it was ‘Officially world’s most trending televised event!’ with 3.6 BILLION impressions!’ while ding that it h beaten ‘Super Bowl 53’ which h 3.4 billion social impressions. He even conveyed his gratitude to all who h watched episode.
fact that PM Modi's 'Man vs Wild' beat ‘Super Bowl’, considered to be among most-watched televised events in world, shows that this was t a small feat.
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While statistics to number of people who watched ‘Man vs Wild’ episode featuring Bear Grylls is yet to be anunced, Twitter becomes a reliable source to see how much interest event generated on social media.
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Actual viewership and Twitter impressions are two different factors and two can’t be compared. But to kw what 3.6 billion means, one can look at statistics of mammoth global events like Football World Cup 2018 or Olympics 2016 and Olympics 2012. Olympics in London and Rio de Janerio h got 3.6 billion views, World Cup in Russia h got 3.5 billion viewers. point to te is that most of se events lasted for close to a month while ‘Man vs Wild’ was a single event.
On or hand, India vs Pakistan semi-final in 2010 and ir match this year was watched by 1 billion people both times. entire Cricket World Cup 2019 across all platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook h collected 3.5 billion views and that too over course of its close to 45-day run.
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As far as TV viewership is concerned, recent ‘Game of Thrones’ finale premiere was watched by 13.9 million people. Meanwhile, ‘M*A*S*H’ in 1983 is reported to be most-watched TV series finale of all time with 105.9 million viewers.
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Though statistics are on different criteria, it gives a massive indication of reach of PM's 'Man vs Wild' episode.
21:18 IST, August 19th 2019