Breaking Bad‘s reported numbers (Nielsen has yet to release official numbers) don’t match up to The Walking Dead‘s season finale in April. That episode drew 12.4 million viewers. And it wasn’t even show’s goodbye. Imagine how many people will tune in when Walking Dead finally goes of the air.
This kind of success isn’t easy. Cable networks like USA and FX try to compete but they can’t match the buzz and devotion AMCs shows inspire. Thanks to services like Netflix NFLX +0.28%, people binge on AMC shows just as passionately as they watch new episodes and the streaming success fueled the live success. Last night’s Breaking Bad was a hit on social networking as well as on TV. According to AMC, at its peak last night there were 23,599 tweets per minute about Breaking Bad. Those kinds of numbers helped AMC ask for roughly $250,000 per 30 second ad for the finale.
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Breaking Bad‘s reported numbers (Nielsen has yet to release official numbers) don’t match up to The Walking Dead‘s season finale in April. That episode drew 12.4 million viewers. And it wasn’t even show’s goodbye. Imagine how many people will tune in when Walking Dead finally goes of the air.
This kind of success isn’t easy. Cable networks like USA and FX try to compete but they can’t match the buzz and devotion AMCs shows inspire. Thanks to services like Netflix NFLX +0.28%, people binge on AMC shows just as passionately as they watch new episodes and the streaming success fueled the live success. Last night’s Breaking Bad was a hit on social networking as well as on TV. According to AMC, at its peak last night there were 23,599 tweets per minute about Breaking Bad. Those kinds of numbers helped AMC ask for roughly $250,000 per 30 second ad for the finale.