So again this year we can get some insight into the popularity of all the panels that were presented during Comic-Con@Home 2021.
If you think about how we attend panels at a normal Comic-Con, where we would normally sit through one or more earlier panels to see the one that we want.
I'm sure we've all been at a panel in Hall H where one panelist will comment on how so many people came out to see their panel, while in fact, most were there to see Marvel or DC later in the day.
This year, like last, we again had the ability to choose to watch only the panels we wanted to see and skip those that we were not interested in.
I went ahead and compiled a list of all the panels from each day along with the number of YouTube views listed for each panel.
What I found this year was that the most popular panel by far was the Dragon Ball Special Panel, followed by the Disney Animation Panel, and then The Walking Dead panel.
Here is a snapshot taken on Monday July 26 at around 6PM PDT of the viewing numbers for all the Comic-Con@Home 2021 panels for each day of the Con.
Thoughts? Surprises?
Wednesday - Thursday Panels
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Friday Panels
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Saturday Panels
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Sunday Panels
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So again this year we can get some insight into the popularity of all the panels that were presented during Comic-Con@Home 2021.
If you think about how we attend panels at a normal Comic-Con, where we would normally sit through one or more earlier panels to see the one that we want.
I'm sure we've all been at a panel in Hall H where one panelist will comment on how so many people came out to see their panel, while in fact, most were there to see Marvel or DC later in the day.
This year, like last, we again had the ability to choose to watch only the panels we wanted to see and skip those that we were not interested in.
I went ahead and compiled a list of all the panels from each day along with the number of YouTube views listed for each panel.
What I found this year was that the most popular panel by far was the Dragon Ball Special Panel, followed by the Disney Animation Panel, and then The Walking Dead panel.
Here is a snapshot taken on Monday July 26 at around 6PM PDT of the viewing numbers for all the Comic-Con@Home 2021 panels for each day of the Con.
Thoughts? Surprises?
Wednesday - Thursday Panels
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Friday Panels
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Saturday Panels
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Sunday Panels
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Thanks for this compilation of data. I really dig diving into statistics like this (something I hated in college = Statistics class: go figure). While the numbers look "low," I suspect the majority of these panels got more views than they would've in person. For example, The Simpsons panel had 15,871: typically it's in Ballroom 20 which has a max capacity of 4800. Fear the Walking Dead in Hall H would get 6500 (and that includes a not insignificant amount of reserved press and staffers who occupy the 'VIP' seats near the front that are blocked off) while here it got 25,293
The smaller Sunday panels (the quietest day at The Con attendance-wise), got between 147-200+ which also still feels bigger than if folks were in the room.
I don't know what the expectations were of these views, but when compared to SDCCI in-person numbers of these panels, this still feels good. I saw some panels this year, and The Simpsons panel was a lot of fun with artists & writers paired up in a sort of 'Pictionary'-esque game, where they'd draw characters and the writer would have to guess the name; or situations and the writer would have to guess the episode title. Central Park (a favorite Apple TV+ series of mine) panel had actual fans (preselected somehow that I didn't catch) that zoomed in to ask questions of talent from the show.
Once again, I think CCI did the best w/what they had. At the end of the day, the panels are ALWAYS only as good as the panelists, and for free this was fun.