HBO’s mobile apps to serve one million new downloads courtesy of ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere

In addition to exciting its solid legion of fanatics, HBO’s “Game of Thrones” most reliable turned into also another time splendid information for installs of the community’s app for twine cutters, HBO NOW, which shot to the pinnacle of the App Store this weekend. The app this weekend saw blended 300,000-plus new mobile subscribers in the U.S. Across each Apple’s App Store and Google Play, consistent with preliminary estimates from Sensor Tower.

This is the very best the app has ranked at the U.S. IPhone App Store in three years, Sensor Tower notes, with its preceding maximum rating on April 24, 2016, for the Season 6 “Game of Thrones” most efficient. At that time, the app had seen a hundred and sixty,000 downloads on just the only day.

Sensor Tower quickly expects to have more precise estimates of the surest’s effect, as it wants to include numbers from the fanatics who are getting a late begin and downloading the app today.

Currently, the app is preserving its No. 1 function on Apple’s App Store. If that keeps, it is able to easily upload every other couple hundred thousand over the direction of these days (Monday, April 15, 2019), Sensor Tower estimates. That should see the app surpassing 500,000 new downloads throughout the 3-day length.

To be clear, these numbers check with customers who have in no way before setting up the app on their telephone — no longer re-downloads.

Of direction, this isn’t always a 1:1 correlation with new HBO NOW subscribers. Many lovers watch the series on their TV’s huge display thru an HBO app for gadgets like Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, and others. Or they will tune in to watch on the web, via their laptop. Still, it’s an extremely good range — specifically considering how late it’s miles within the collection for the display to be gaining new enthusiasts.

HBO’s app for cable and satellite TV customers, HBO Go, also did nicely this weekend. It’s heading in the right direction to exceed 400,000 installs over the same three-day period (the weekend of the Season 8 premiere, plus Monday). This is highest the app has ranked for the reason that Season 7 most beneficial in July 2017, when it brought 350,000 first-time users across both stores worldwide.

Combined, the two apps — HBO Go and HBO NOW — are poised to exceed extra than 1 million new installs on this three-day duration, Sensor Tower forecasts.

However, fans’ hobby within the long-awaited new season may have prompted HBO’s apps to battle some.

There were reports from Down Detector and Business Insider of users who had issues streaming from the HBO apps, as well as Hulu. But these were nowhere on the size of crashes we’ve visible in years beyond — as with the Season four “Game of Thrones” most useful, which had HBO issuing a public apology due to the scale of the outage. (HBO says it did no longer have issues with HBO NOW or HBO Go. So the small number of troubles may be chalked up to users’ broadband connections, or other elements.)

Other TV apps had some glitches, too, way to the most reliable. For example, the TV-tracking social app TV Time briefly struggled to load, shortly after the most fulfilling’s airing ultimate night time. On its app, “Game of Thrones” is one of the most-tracked suggests, in which it has 4.Three million fans who submit feedback, images, memes and extra to the display’s in-app community. Today, there are some 6,200 remarks within the show’s discussion board from fans discussing the show.

HBO introduced nowadays the Season 8 premiere turned into watched by using a file 17.4 million visitors across all structures, including linear TV, HBO Go, and HBO NOW. Its previous file turned into 16.9 million viewers for the Season 7 finale. The Season 8 most beneficial additionally had over a million greater visitors than the Season 7 optimum, the community said.