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Game of Thrones V1 GAME OF THRONES THE OPEN WEB’S PICK FOR THE THRONE Winter is coming. The 8th and final season of Game of Thrones is right around the corner. While we can’t predict who will be decapitated next, we can analyze who you’re reading about. 65M page views later—read by +30M readers during the 7th season—we’ve got the results. WE ANALYZED +30M +7K +65M +80M Readers Articles Page Views Mins. Reading NUMBER OF READERS YOUR PICK FOR THE THRONE With so many contenders, you found Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow to be your favorites. Daenerys Targaryen Jon Snow Tyrion Lannister Cersei Lannister Jaime Lannister Arya Stark Bran Stark Sansa Stark Robert Baratheon Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish 5M 10M 15M Daenerys Targaryen (AKA Khaleesi) and Jon Snow The Lannister family, allegedly the bad guys, are have almost twice the readers the Lannister family has, far more read about than the Starks. coming right after. Despite the threat he imposes in the series, the Night King isn’t as popular on the open web. MOST FAN INTEREST ON THE WESTEROS MAP We pinned all the main locations on the Westeros map to see which one has the highest number of readers. Almost all of Westeros’ cities attracted many readers, regardless of their size or the number of characters that come from there. +700K The Wall +1.5M Winterfell +50K Pyke +10K +1M +100K Casterly Rock Riverrun The Eyrie +2M King’s Landing +0.5M Highgarden King’s Landing takes the readership throne, as it’s where the Iron Throne sits, with over 2M readers. FAN'S MOST POPULAR HOUSES Although the Starks have more living family members to share screen time, House Targaryen is the most popular. House Targaryen House House Stark House Lannister Martell House House Tyrell Baratheon 74.9K 95.4K 1.9M 6M 9.7M 18.7M The Targaryen House is not only the most popular house, it gets twice the readers of the Stark House and almost 4x their rival House Lannister. TOP LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Favorite characters aren’t the same across the globe. Here’s who’s read about the most in every country. Daenerys Targaryen Jon Snow Tyrion Lannister Cersei Lannister Arya Stark Similarly to their general popularity, Khaleesi Breaking from the mold Arya In China, Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow are still the most common. Stark is most popular in Sudan. attracted the most readers. GODS THE OLD GODS OR THE NEW? Now for the question that even Maester Aemon couldn't answer. Who is more popular—the old gods or the new? It’s a tie! We swear by the old gods and the new. Old 50% 50% New Who will conquer the Iron Throne? WIll it be the Mother of Dragons? Jon The Bastard? Or maybe Cersei? We’ll have to wait and see... ENJOY!.
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