[orillian]

I think the biggest assumption of the article is that Game of Thrones has an equal sized viewing audience to House of Cards. That is simply not the case. While Netflix is in fact growing their numbers at a rather nice rate, it still doesn't compare to the number of individuals that have HBO available to them with their local cable providers.

Also, what is the proportion of XERQ users that are also Netflix subscribers? That could be a telling metric as well.

I could be way off, but I have a funny suspicion that the numbers are rather different.

[ginolomelino]

Netflix recently surpassed HBO in subscribers. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-c...

Regardless, for this conversation, the number of people who could see the shows is not relevant. It's the number of people who did see them. I don't think anyone knows the number for House of Cards aside from Netflix.