Thanks to the introduction of Marvel miniseries featuring some of its characters, Disney+ saw a 31% year-over-year increase in monthly searches. A year after launch, HBO Max had the highest year-over-year db center.uk growth of all streamers, up 272%.
Trending TV Series in 2021
Netflix original series accounted for 60% of the top 10 most searched-for TV shows in 2021, and it should come as no surprise that the most searched-for series of the year (if not of all time) was the Korean dystopian drama Squid Game . The series experienced its highest search volume in October 2021, with a whopping 101 million searches.
The second most searched series, Loki , pales in comparison, peaking at 16.6 million searches in June and July 2021. Interestingly, the Japanese manga comic series Tokyo Revengers has entered the top 10 series, which suggests that niche products are becoming more popular among mainstream audiences.
Most popular movies of 2021
Among the most popular movie releases of 2021, we had a female assassin go head-to-head with a giant gorilla. That's right, Marvel's Black Widow and Godzilla vs. Kong were the most searched-for films of the year.
Disney’s popular remake, Cruella , has received an average of five million searches each month, with a peak of 16.6 million searches for the month of June.
The true story of the investigation into a 9/11 terror suspect, called The Mauritanian , has seen a 5.3 million % increase over the year. Interestingly, Christina Milano’s romantic comedy Resort to Love has jumped from 2,900 searches to 450,000 from June to July 2021, and then another million month-over-month consecutively.
Further honorable mentions go to the latest James Bond 007 film No Time to Die , and the heavily hyped new Marvel film, Spiderman No Way Home .
